Ireland's Great WarHere, name by name, parish by parish, province by province, Kevin Myers details Ireland's intimate involvement with one of the greatest conflicts in human history, the First World War of 1914 to 1918, which left no Irish family untouched. With this gathering of his talks, unpublished essays and material distilled from The Irish Times and elsewhere, Myers lays out the grounds of his research and findings in Connaught, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. He

The Family Business by Adrian Kenny is many things: journal of a frustrated young writer and lover

\n \nThis is a writer's journal of his friendships

As the Irish rural image undergoes radical transformation

The Farm by Lough Gur was first published in London in 1937 and quickly reprinted

Liam O’Flaherty and Louis MacNiece

as poet – as Myles

these great stage actors resettled in Hollywood and became members of what was informally called Ford’s ‘stock company’

One popular ballad told the volunteers

illustrations and original documentation – of the two strands of his story: the rise and fall of the Defender and United Irish movements in Leitrim in the mid-1790s

who was raised at Maidenhall in County Kilkenny by the historian and essayist Hubert Butler and his wife Peggy

Dublin was always a hybrid place

and to this book