New Island Books

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers, now translated for the first time into Irish with the support of An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscoilaiochta, and ideal for learners of the Irish language.

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers.

New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter. Half a million Irish people left Ireland in the nineteen-fifties, forced by decades of economic stagnation. For many, Britain was their only hope of survival.

A brilliant new history of medieval Ireland as lived by the ordinary people rather than the small elite of nobles and warriors who have dominated discussions to date.

From the author of such critically acclaimed novels as Tatty and The Last Train to Liguria comes a sharply observed collection of short stories.

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.

A companion to the hugely successful podcast of the same name by Donal Fallon, THREE CASTLES BURNING is an enjoyable wander through some of Dublin's less obvious but more interesting streets.

In 2020, Purple House, one of Ireland's most beloved and important cancer support charities celebrates its 30th anniversary. So valued are the services of the charity and so ubiquitous are the effects of cancer that nearly 50 Irish writers have contributed a story, essay or poem to this anthology.