New Island Books: 96 books
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....
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,...
The Projectionist
The Story of Ernest Gébler
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Ernest Gebler, the writer of such international bestsellers as The Plymouth Adventure and Call Me Daddy (which became the film Hoffman), led a remarkable life. In this unauthorized biography, Carlo Gebler, Ernest's estranged son, tells the many stories of his father's life, from Ernest's turbulent...
God-Provoking Democrat
The Remarkable Life of Archibald Hamilton Rowan
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
‘I have seen many, very many United Irishmen, and with a few exceptions they are . . . the most God-provoking Democrats on this side of Hell.’ Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class of Co. Down, Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751–1832) led a colourful life. Heavily influenced by the celebrated...
Battleground
The Battle for The General Post Office, 1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
On Easter Monday, 24th of April 1916, members of the Irish Citizen Army and the Irish Volunteers, under the command of Pádraig Pearse and James Connolly, occupied the General Post Office in Sackville Street, Dublin. From the portico of this iconic building, an independent Irish Republic was declared....
September Sundays
As Heard on Sunday Miscellany
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
An eclectic mix of prose, poetry and more from the archives of Sunday Miscellany, celebrating 100 years of Croke Park. This wonderful selection captures the emotional magic of how the games connect with the joy and despair of this unique Irish experience. The collection recalls many of the great matches of the last 100 years from Croke Park.
by Martin Malone
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
He beat her. Broke skin, left her needing stitches, and begged his sister to furnish him with an alibi. My husband. What on earth have I married? A dormant monster?’ Secrets, once disturbed, can ruin a life that has been spent trying to hide them. Two voices – one living, one dead – compete...
Confronting Shadows
An Introduction to the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Thomas Kinsella s life and work spans almost the entire history of the Irish state. His life and work has engaged with some of the most fundamental ruptures, moments, scandals and developments in the history of this nation and its people. The fight for independence, the economic shift to liberalism...
by Theo Dorgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
“You have to see what’s through and under and over and behind things. You have to pay real attention…” Tom, an aging music executive, retiree and sailor meets Clare, a young, beautiful and somewhat mysterious woman on the quays of a Sicilian port. The two strangers share an unpredictable voyage...
by Mia Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Visitors are reminded that they are about to enter the Wunderkammer, a floating chamber where normal spacetime conventions no longer apply… A bomb blast in the London Underground rips through space and time, unearthing four stories that whirl, collide and pass each other by. Sometime around now,...
by John MacKenna
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
So, that's how it was with us after the Captain's slaughter. Shock, then panic, then hope, then self-preservation. The killing was the easy part, all done and dusted in short order, as clean as these things can be...' These wide-ranging stories follow the disparate disciples of the Captain – a mysterious,...