New Irish Non-Fiction

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. His ninth Bloodaxe collection, Border Zone, explores a far-reaching canvas of British/Caribbean transatlantic connections, sweeping across centuries and continents.

Caustically humorous and polemically compulsive, Trump Rant is a work of meticulous political portraiture: a deep-delving and epoch-spanning investigation into the nature of power in American life, made luminous by Agee's nuanced, exploratory understanding of authoritarian drift in a number of world-historical contexts.

"The Anthropocene" evokes the escalating global ecological crisis, including climate change, deforestation, the treatment of animals, oceanic pollution and over-fishing, extinctions, land-use, plastic pollution and the waste crisis, the eco-vandalism of mining and the fashion industry, biodiversity and ecocide generally.

A hardback reprint of the classic Irish Pages issue on Seamus Heaney to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death on 30 August 2013. The extraordinary degree to which Heaney was a creative and ethical exemplar, mentor, and generous friend comes through especially powerfully in this book, with its 54 contributors.

Collection of essays by Hubert Butler, edited by Chris Agee and Jacob Agee, published by The Irish Pages Press

A decade after Next to Nothing, Chris Agee’s critically acclaimed and achingly powerful collection of poems in memory of his daughter Miriam, Blue Sandbar Moon explores with delicate precision the emotional and spiritual landscape of a life sustained in “the aftermath of aftermath.”

Mainly non-fiction writing on The Belfast Agreement (The Good Friday Agreement) and Brexit, by 42 major Irish writers.

The yearbook is a key publication that has been on the desks of the people of Northern Ireland for over 20 years. The essential guide to the public sector in Northern Ireland, the Yearbook is a unique publication in terms of the breadth and detail of its coverage.

The story is similar to that of the RMS Leinster, torpedoed by the Germans in WW1 and focuses on all aspects of the tragedy. The ship, the sinking, the people who were lost and survived. The authors traced a member of every family descended and also held a centenary. A packed book and the profits go to the RNLI.

Re-print. A tumbling trip through the dozens and dozens of street characters that have walked Dublin and its suburbs’ streets.