Island Books imprint: 183 books
by Emma Comerford
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
‘Getting sex advice from Irish nuns was like getting dental hygiene tips from Shane McGowan . . . ’ The journey from Peig Sayers to Miram O’Callaghan has been arduous. In Irish Bitches Be Crazy, Emma Comerford shines her provocative and entertaining light on the sometimes erratic psyche of the...
The Splendid Years
The Memoirs of an Abbey Actress and 1916 Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh was a founder actress of the Abbey Theatre and its first leading lady on its opening in 1904, when she played the title role in W. B. Yeats’s Kathleen Ni Houlihan. On that night, five members of her family were acting and working in the theatre. Her beauty and talent captivated...
On This Day
Irish Histories from Drivetime in RTÉ Radio 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
In this entertaining and engaging book, based on the popular 'On This Day' segment from Drivetime on RTÉ Radio 1, Myles Dungan delivers little-known episodes from the history of Ireland, and Irish people at home and abroad, bringing fresh perspectives on the lives of both the renowned and the notorious....
Ireland and the Eurovision
The Winners, the Losers and the Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Dancing grannies, Polish milkmaids and the Bearded Lady. There’s no denying that the Eurovision Song Contest remains one of the most enduring phenomena of popular culture – and, perhaps, also one of the strangest. Ireland’s love affair with the Eurovision has now lasted over half a century....
Here's Me Here
Further Reflections of a Relapsed Protestant
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
‘Glenn Patterson is Northern Ireland’s prose laureate’ – Will Self Here's Me Here: Further Reflections of a Lapsed Protestant features a wide and thought-provoking section of Glenn Patterson's writings. With his trademark wit and intelligence. Patterson offers his wry take on life on this...
The Press Gang
Tales from the Glory Days of Irish Newspapers
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
In September 1931, Pádraig Pearse's mother started a revolution in Dublin. She pushed a button, and the presses began rolling at Éamon de Valera's legendary Irish Press Newspaper Group, changing the landscape of Irish journalism forever. In The Press Gang, for the first time, fifty-five of its former...
Blanketmen
An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
‘I was told in 1991 that I could be shot for opening my mouth. But I am convinced that the truth should be told and that I have a duty to the dead hunger strikers to explain fully the events that led to their deaths.’ Richard O’Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison....
by Sam McGrath, Donal Fallon, Ciarán Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Donal, Sam and Ciarán from the hugely popular blog Come Here To Me! are back with a brand-new collection of fascinating, surprising, and little-known tales from the hidden history of Dublin, Ireland’s often weird and always wonderful capital city.
In a history book that looks at things from...
by Kevin Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Tariq is beset by danger on the streets and by conflict at home. Music is his only consolation. The only ally of his own age is Rachel, his Jewish classmate. She will not let Tariq's Islamic Iraqi background define how she—or the wider community—sees him. When he forms a new friendship with the...
by Michael J. O'Loughlin
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
‘Something new is happening here and knows that it is happening. O’Loughlin manages to ride the surge of discourses and histories in order to arrive in the free literate domain of the achieved poem.’ - Seamus Heaney Michael O’Loughlin has earned an enduring reputation as one of Ireland’s...
by Donno Sørensen
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In this debut collection, Donna Sørensen writes poetry for a new generation. She writes about belonging and the feel of different places, as well she might an Englishwoman who now lives in Denmark and who worked for three years in Ireland. Her imagery is rooted deeply in natural experiences and alive...
Time on the Ocean
A Voyage from Cape Horn to Cape Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
"Dorgan’s spirit soars – and with it the reader’s...Time on the Ocean will be relished by all sailors, to be sure. But it will also give hours of pleasure to anyone who appreciates superb writing and for whom a tale of the human spirit pitted against raw nature is irresistible." -The...
Foundation Stone
Notes Toward a Constitution for a 21st-Century Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
A critical evaluation of the changes the Irish constitution needs to bring radical reform to Ireland. "In 1949, almost offhandedly, we declared our State a Republic. Remarkably nobody seems to have thought that this should have prompted a long, cold hard look at the Constitution. I say remarkably,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
In 1985, The Female Line: Northern Irish Women Writers was published. A pioneering anthology at the time, it gave many Northern Irish women writers their first opportunity for publication. Now, over thirty years later, Female Lines: New Writing by Women from Northern Ireland – a stunning mosaic...