New Irish Non-Fiction

One man’s lifetime journey through gaelic football and hurling, On the Shoulders of Giants brings readers face to face with many of the legendary characters in the GAA, most of whom have sadly passed many years ago.

Echo explores the intimate connection between clothing and memory. With a focus on the works of artist Louise Bourgeois, Irish designer Simone Rocha, and choreographer and dancer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.

Divided into 14 topics, each containing affirmations for different needs, such as emotional release, abundance, gratitude, acceptance, manifestation, relationships and growth, The Book of Healing Affirmations provides guidance on how to cultivate a daily affirmation practice.

Lady Butler is a story of travel and history, of war and conflict, of Italy of the Risorgimento, of the London art world where she achieved celebrity and negotiated the difficulties of being a female artist in a male-dominated domain, and of imperial travel. Her biography reveals a figure whose perspective on war is modern, whose confidence in achieving success in the masculine field of battle art taps into contemporary debates, and whose work provokes a rethinking of the post-imperial world.

This enticing 250 page book is the result of painstaking research into the turbulent life of clergy and laity of the (ancient Celtic, catholic and protestant) many faceted Church of Ireland during political upheavals, the influences of plantation and of ecclesiastical establishment.

A second collection by Arnie Yasinski, “God Lives in Norway and Goes by Christie”. Anchored in his present life in Ireland (swimming at the Forty Foot in the opening poem, "Changing") Arnie reflects on his peripatetic past including being one of the young men in the 1969 U.S. draft lottery for Vietnam, living with his wife and child in married-student housing in Indiana.

An American makes sense of living in Ireland with his second wife; knows his difference is noticed when he opens his mouth to speak; how the stasis of Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ is everywhere — in the inertia of an underlying passivity he hears again and again, “it’s how things are done here”; knowing how darkness can be camouflaged, how the Irish avoid pain by averting their eyes from the abyss.

In A City in Turmoil Padraig Yeates takes up the story from the end of the First World War covered in A City in Wartime.

An illustrated collection of forty of Yeats' best-loved works, on topics including Love, Politics, Old Age, Myth and Legend includes people, places and events that were important to him.

'The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper' W B Yeats The essential collection of W B Yeats best-loved poems.