This book examines many little understood aspects of the Irish landscape from the last Ice Age until now. Historians, archaeologists, biologists and earth scientists each bring their own perspective on  the landscape and the life it has supported, giving a new understanding of the history of the Irish ecosystem.

A new biography of  the Irishman now claimed by the Conservatives as their founding father. The author sees Edmund Burke as one of the eighteenth century's golden generation, which includes his friends Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon. Burke, it is argued, was a dazzling orator and visionary theorist who is now underrated.

Contemporary Ireland, north and south, was founded in the decade 1912-23. From the signing of the Ulster Unionists' Solemn League and Covenant to the partitioning of the country and subsequent civil war in the Irish Free State, a series of events shaped Ireland  for the century to come.

John Burt contends that during the 1858 Presedential campaign the very legitimacy of democratic governance was on the line. As they campaigned against each other, both Lincoln and Douglas struggled with how to behave when an ethical conflict as profound as the one over slavery strained the committment upon which democracy depends.

Edited by novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, this is the latest in the Faber anthologies of Irish short stories......The Irish story is changing and is pulsing with great, mad and rude new erergies. Watch it now as it spirals and spins out. 

Inextricably bound together by bonds of faith and fate, Brigham Young and Mormonism rose as one in nineteenth century America. It is Young and that era in American history that are examined in this book. Turner's biography reveals Brigham, the husband to many wives, as more violent and coarse than many Mormons have known. 

Sheila Wingfield's poetry offers an insight into life in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Wingfield was born in the south of England to an Irish mother and an English father. In 1932 she married Mervyn Patrick Wingfield. The couple moved to Ireland and later inherited the Powerscourt Estate in County Wicklow.

A rich account of the lives and activities of Dublin's lord mayors over 450 years. Along the way many aspects of the cultural life and politics of the city are touched on, including religious division, the role of O'Connell in the city, the numerous poor, the 1913 Lockout and everyday life for citizens of all classes.

Deirdre Madden's eight novel. As the Buckley family delve into their memories, so too must they renegotiate their history and the decisions that have brought them to to this place in the present ... an exquisite and extraordinary dissection of the life of an ordinary family.

Moore was a fascinating figure moving between countries, crossing genre and medium boundaries and forever exploring aesthetic trends and artistic developments through Naturalism, Impressionism, Decadence and Literary Wagnerism. This volume offers a variety of critical perspectives to approach Moore's multifaceted oeuvre and personality.

A new journal which plans to publish critical work on Irish writers of gothic, supernatural and fantastic literature. Authors covered will include well known names and important figures who have received less critical attention in the past.

During his 1882 tour of the US  Oscar Wilde covered 15,000 miles, delivered 140 lectures and met everyone who was anyone. Long haired and dressed in satin knee breeches with black silk stockings, the apostle of the Aesthetic Movement shocked entertained and enlightened a speelbound nation

As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. George Steiner says that the area which Manguel has mapped for himself is that of the eros of reading.

In these poems John W Sexton speaks in a tradition from oral tales and myths to the gothic of Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker. These are poems of the altered mind, of the subveresion of logic and science.

A Place in the Country is a window into the mind of WG Sebald, a much missed writer

Letters 2008 - 2011, Paul Auster, JM Coetzee

The early life and rise to power of the woman who transformed Britain

So what's the big difference anyway?

Fourth collection of poems from Conor O'Callaghan

The revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews 1933- 1965