Books Ireland Magazine - The World of Irish Books
The essential reference for the Irish and international book trade and general readers.
Books Ireland Magazine
Wordwell Ltd, publishers of Archaeology Ireland and History Ireland magazines, have recently taken over and relaunched Books Ireland. Jeremy Addis, who founded Books Ireland in 1976, has handed over the reins to Wordwell Ltd. They will maintain Books Ireland as a key reference for the Irish and international book trade and the book-reading public. Books Ireland will conti
nue to reflect the ‘world of books’ in Ireland, encompassing reading, writing, making, printing, and selling books, in fact all matters relating to books. The Summer issue of Books Ireland has been published and will be available for purchase as of 1, May 2014. Do you think we do enough to promote Ireland’s literary heritage? Publisher Michael O’Brien offers some food for thought in his opinion piece “A nasty twist in the tale for Irish Books?”
Also in this issue Joseph O’Connor discusses the book that made him want to become a writer. Des Kenny, from the well-known Galway family, reveals the art of bookselling. Author, Patricia McAdoo shares her knowledge on writing for well-being. Writer and heritage officer Tim Carey gives a behind-the-scenes account of how the highly successful Mountains to Sea dlr book festival was conceived and managed. And of course we have the usual reviews and news of literary shenanigans. Summary
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Incredible emotional range and formal inventiveness—High Jump as Icarus Story, by Gustav Parker Hibbett 📕
Banshee Lit Jess Traynor Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann
incredible emotional range and formal inventiveness—High Jump as Icarus Story, by Gustav Parker Hibbett.
'Trimalchio in West Egg' was the original title of which novel?
Test your book knowledge in our new book quiz, starting today!
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Our new book quiz is here! Test your book knowledge in The Books Ireland Quiz.
New books out this month? Check out First Flush for July!
Browse all upcoming Irish published, Irish authored, and Irish interest books this month in First Flush—or dig into our archives all the way back to 2021 📕
New Island Books The O'Brien Press Merrion Press O'Mahony's Booksellers Books Upstairs thebookshop.ie Nielsen
Browse all upcoming Irish published, Irish authored, and Irish interest books this month in First Flush.
📕The team at Discover Irish Children’s Books pick their favourite titles for July📕
Children's Books Ireland Nosy Crow Little Island
The team at Discover Irish Children's Books pick their favourite titles for July.
🔥 Burning Books is coming to the West Cork Literary Festival! 🔥
Join author Michael Magee as he tells Ruth McKee about the books which have marked his life 📕
Recorded live on July 15 at 5.00pm.
West Cork Literary Festival
Michael Magee features in a special live recording of the Burning Books podcast at the West Cork Literary Festival this July.
In her foreword to Wild-Looking but Fine by Ciara O’Dowd (UCD Press), Jane Brennan wonders why so few biographies have been written about women in Irish theatre. This book traces the theatre careers of Ria Mooney and Aideen O’Connor from their stage debuts to performing in New York, and the lives they made for themselves beyond the stage. — Read an extract here📕
This book traces the lives of Irish Abbey actresses Mooney and O'Connor from their stage debuts to performing in New York, and the lives they made for themselves beyond the stage.
"To say she is haunted by nostalgia would be wide of the mark. It would, perhaps, be more accurate to say she owns it."
Neil McCarthy reviews The Dark Art of Darning, by Moya Roddy
Salmon Poetry Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann
Roddy's past is a jigsaw of memories and raw emotions that poetry allows her to revisit.
"The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry is an exhilarating read, a forbidden love story at once tender and violent."
—read this fine review by Eoghan Smith📕
Eoghan Smith Canongate Books
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry is an exhilarating read, a forbidden love story at once tender and violent.
⭐️We have our winners!!⭐️
Huge congratulations to Alison Wassell, Kik Lodge, and Emma Lee for their sparkly words 🔥
And thank you to the fabulous National Book Tokens
for their wonderful prizes, celebrating !
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To celebrate Independent Bookshop Week, we are very pleased to announce the winners of our Flash Fiction Competition!
Jessica Traynor is the 2024 recipient of the Field Day Tundish Award for contribution to the arts in Ireland, which was presented to her on Bloomsday by Theo Dorgan and Stephen Rea at a ceremony in the Merrion Hotel, Dublin.
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann Bloodaxe Books Dedalus Press: Poetry from Ireland Banshee Lit Publishing Ireland Irish Writers Centre Jess Traynor
Jessica Traynor is the recipient of the Field Day Tundish Award 2024 for her contribution to the arts.
It’s Independent Bookshop Week, so what better way to celebrate than by popping down to your local bookshop, or going online to order a book for the young reader in your life?
The team at Discover Irish Children’s Books choose their favourite titles for June ❤️📕❤️
Books Are My Bag Bookselling Ireland O'Mahony's Booksellers Kennys Bookshop Children's Books Ireland Sarah Webb Gill Books Little Tiger Books Little Island Nosy Crow Futa Fata
The team at Discover Irish Children's Books choose their favourite titles for June.
Award winners for 2024 include Paula Meehan, Arnold Horner, and Darragh McKeon 📕
Wordwell Books History Ireland
Award winners for 2024 include Paula Meehan, Arnold Horner, and Darragh McKeon.
Congratulations to the 39 writers selected for this year’s National Mentoring Programme with the Irish Writers Centre!
The chosen writers will receive literary mentoring over the next eight months from an acclaimed Irish writer of their choice 📘
Irish Writers Centre Children's Books Ireland Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann Munster Literature Centre
39 writers have been selected from across the island of Ireland for the IWC Mentoring Programme 2024.
"Congratulations are due to Diarmuid de Faoite and Arlen House for making these stories available in a bilingual version that should entice readers not already familiar with Padraic ó Conaire, or who wish to revisit stories that they may have read many years ago."—Cathal Póirtéir
Cathal Póirtéir Charlie Byrne's Bookshop
Translated with stylistic unity and authority, this bi-lingual edition of Scothscéalta should entice readers.
"Usually in this column I write about a work of Irish fiction that inspired a Hollywood film, but this time I’m writing about a factual account of a key episode of World War II that led to the making of the film The Longest Day."
On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Tony Canavan writes about The Longest Day.
The story of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France on 6 June 1944, that inspired a block buster movie.
Keen to brush up your skills in proofreading and copy-editing?
Register for Publishing Ireland‘s two day course which runs on June the 19th and 20th, led by industry professional Dominic Carroll. 📕📗📒
Publishing Ireland
Publishing Ireland hosts a two day proofreading and copyediting course.
"I think that we use humour to make our lives palatable, so when you find it in a book, the character that made you laugh often has some deeper tragedy or fear which their humour helps them float above. In my own writing comedy and tragedy often merge completely."
A fascinating Q&A with Catriona Shine📕
Lilliput Press Catriona Shine
"It will be quite a different book by the time they’ve finished it, not the one you lent them at all."
“I’ll miss his honesty, his seriousness and his laughter."
Poet and scholar Gerald Dawe dies at 72.
The Gallery Press: Poetry & Drama from Ireland Merrion Press Publishing Ireland
Gerald Dawe, writer of 'inimitable charm and good grace' dies at 72.
Congratulations to the winners of this year's KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards!⭐️
Such a worthwhile prize, supporting our authors and illustrators of books for young people☀️♥️☀️
Children's Books Ireland
The KMPG Children's Books Ireland Awards honour and promote excellence in books for young people by Irish authors and illustrators.
"Each poem in The Risen Tree by Bernadette Gallagher is a meditation on a Psalm. This is a collection about the possibility of life overcoming death, about memory, mortality, and morality."
Orla Fay Bernadette GallagherPoetry Ireland / Éigse ÉireannRevival Press
We write to find out, to question—The Risen Tree, by Bernadette Gallagher.
"I need a good kick up the arse every now and again. I’m very good at taking criticism. If it’s necessary, I want to hear it."
— a lovely, warm interview with Estelle Birdy talking to our Niall McArdle 📕
Lilliput Press
Estelle Birdy talks with Niall McArdle about socio-linguistics, The Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair, and becoming a writer.
Fancy listening to Rónán Hession today?
He's our latest guest on the Burning Books podcast🔥
He talks about all sorts of things with Ruth McKee including the 'juice' in a good book💛
Find the full episode here, or wherever you listen
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https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/róndcast/r%C3%B3n%C3%A1n-hession/id1567609807?i=1000655879637
Our flash competition is now open!
Help celebrate Independent Bookshop Week in June and send us your story 📕
It's FREE to enter, and there are some fab book gift cards as prizes!
Guidelines on our website www.booksirelandmagazine.com
National Book Tokens Books Are My Bag Bookselling Ireland writing.ie
“Bookshops are so much more than places you can buy the latest bestseller. They’re community hubs and cultural venues, supporting Ireland’s writers and publishers and contributing massively to the Irish literary tradition.“—Dawn Behan, Chair of Bookselling Ireland
Bookselling Ireland
Bookselling Ireland are urging the government to introduce a culture voucher scheme to mitigate the impact of the retail giant.
Very sorry to hear about the death of Alice Munro, one of the finest.
There is no direct flight from New York City to Clinton, Ontario, the Canadian town of three thousand where Alice Munro lives most of the year. We left LaGuardia early on a June morning, rented a car in Toronto, and drove for three hours on roads that grew smaller and more rural. Around du...
☀️Burning Books in the line-up at West Cork Literary Festival☀️
Author of Close to Home, Michael Magee will be chatting with Ruth McKee for a special live recording of our podcast in the beautiful old Methodist church in Bantry ♥️
Find your tickets here: https://westcorkmusic.ie/events/2024/burning-books-michael-magee/
West Cork Literary Festival Faber Books
Michael Magee features in a special live recording of the Burning Books podcast at the West Cork Literary Festival this July.
Emma McKervey reads from her new collection, Highland Boundary Fault, which launches today📕
Turas Press
Emma McKervey reads from her new collection Highland Boundary Fault (Turas Press).
⭐️Books Ireland Flash Fiction competition open for submissions⭐️
FREE to enter
Prizes from the fab National Book Tokens ♥️📕♥️
First Prize book gift card €150
Second Prize book gift card €100
Third Prize book gift card €50
Deadline 01 June
Books Are My Bag writing.ie
Books Ireland with National Book Tokens welcomes flash fiction submissions for Independent Bookshop Week.
Publishing Ireland are running some great courses at the moment—check out what's happening in May📗
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https://booksirelandmagazine.com/publishing-ireland-courses-in-may/
"Seaborne, an artful novel of sublime imagination, tells the story of eighteenth century Anne Bonny, the pirate from Kinsale, Co. Cork."
New Island Books Publishing Ireland
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Fancy listening to Rónán Hession today? He's our latest guest on the Burning Books podcast🔥 He talks about all sorts of things with Ruth McKee including the 'juice' in a good book💛 Find the full episode here, or wherever you listen @followers ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/róndcast/r%C3%B3n%C3%A1n-hession/id1567609807?i=1000655879637
Our flash competition is now open! Help celebrate Independent Bookshop Week in June and send us your story 📕 It's FREE to enter, and there are some fab book gift cards as prizes! Guidelines on our website www.booksirelandmagazine.com National Book Tokens Books Are My Bag Bookselling Ireland writing.ie @followers
Publishing Ireland are running some great courses at the moment—check out what's happening in May📗 @followers 🔽🔽🔽 https://booksirelandmagazine.com/publishing-ireland-courses-in-may/
See our full Q and A with Katherine Mezzacappa over on Books Ireland (and see a picture of her lovely cat)❤️ Fairlight Books @followers https://booksirelandmagazine.com/burning-books-qa-katherine-mezzacappa/
Congratulations to Anne Enright and Claire Kilroy who are shortlisted for this year's Women's Prize for Fiction! Claire Kilroy spoke with Ruth McKee last year about the genesis of Soldier, Sailor, how early motherhood affected her creativity, and the profound rewiring that happens to you as an artist and as a person when you have a child 🔥♥️🔥 Women's Prize @followers Faber Books Full episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/claire-kilroy/id1567609807?i=1000615376184
Hello Friday! The new episode of Burning Books is now live, with the wonderful Jane Casey♥️ Tune in here ⬇️⬇️⬇️or wherever you find your podcasts🔥 https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/jane-casey/id1567609807?i=1000652213309 HarperCollins Ruth McKee @followers
Pssst. Our monthly bestseller charts are out now! . See the top ten in fiction, non-fiction, children's, and overall each month over on Books Ireland ♥️📕♥️
Come in out of the storm and have a listen to the latest Burning Books, with the fabulosa Jackie Lynam Find the full episode here, or wherever you listen 📕 https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/jackie-lynam/id1567609807?i=1000647662177
It's Friday! And that means a new Burning Books episode📕 Join Noel O'Regan as he talks about his early reading experience, a pivotal moment as a teenager on a family holiday to France, Raymond Carver, John McGahern, and learning from Claire Keegan🔥 Granta Irish Writers Centre Museum of Literature Ireland The Stinging Fly
Órfhlaith Foyle talks about creativity, a different way of being in the world, and her new collection Three Houses in Rome Doire Press in the next episode of Burning Books. Join Órfhlaith Foyle and editor Ruth McKee here ⬇️or wherever you listen 🔥🔥🔥 https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/órfhlaith-foyle/id1567609807?i=1000638644819
It's getting closer! Pre-order here: shorturl.at/bgBQV
Tune in to the latest episode of Burning Books—with Anne Tannam, Poet in Residence at Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann talking with editor Ruth McKee 🔥
It's Friday...which means a new episode of Burning Books! Author Tom Morris talks to Ruth McKee about the books he'd save if his house was on fire, and reads from his new collection, Open Up Faber Books Find the full episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/tom-morris/id1567609807?i=1000632788846
What better day for a new #burningbooks episode? Una Mannion is our latest guest🔥 Faber Books Ruth McKee #Bloomsday
Burning Books, Dublin Book Festival, November 13, New Theatre, Temple Bar.
🔥Burning Books is out!🔥 Martina Devlin talks about witches, memory, loss and imagination when she tells Ruth McKee which books she'd save if her house was on fire... https://podcasts.apple.com/.../martina.../id1567609807...…
This Friday ❤️ Burning Books—with Roma Wells
