Local history: From William Orr and the not-so-united Irishmen to a box of underwear labelled ‘ass sizes’
Histories of the United Irishmen, Elizabeth Bown and George Egerton, Donegal visionary John Gwyn, Abbey of Carryke in Co Down, and songs of Clare
Local history: Cartoonish cruelty betrays a fundamentalist who would not cotton on
The Reverend Psychopath: Suffer Little Children, Terror, Tears and Tragedy: The Mount Cashells and the Notorious Divorce Case of 1876, and Under the Metal Man: Sligo in Yeats
Ambassador of Nowhere: A Latin American Pilgrimage - inquisitive journeying
Richard Gwyn blends memoir, cultural travel and political history
The Origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey: Charting the intriguing backstory of the survey’s birth in 1824
A tasty appetiser of the OSI’s primordial days that may perhaps lead to a wider banquet
Local history: Six books that lift the lid on times past
Abbey Lea: A Killiney History; Hardiman & Beyond: The Arts & Culture of Galway since 1820; Armagh: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23; and much more
Local history: a Wicklow tea room, ambitious Kennedys, New Quay secrets and Cork curiosities
The eccentricities, folklore and sociology of small town Ireland is vividly captured in volumes by Michael Fewer, Therese Hicks, Kathleen Fawle, Daithí Ó Muiri and Kieran McCarthy
Local history books round-up, featuring Zozimus, Bang Bang and other Dublin characters
Through Streets Broad and Narrow by Declan Collinge; Lives Less Ordinary: Dublin’s Fitzwilliam Square by Andrew Hughes; Spectral Mansions: The Making of a Dublin Tenement by Timothy Murtagh; a history of Dublin Castle; and Dublin City Council’s History on your Doorstep collection
Christy Gillespie’s Road to Glenlough: Exploring American artist Rockwell Kent’s Irish work
Kent craved grandeur and remoteness and Ireland held an allure
Errigal: Sacred Mountain by Cathal Ó Searcaigh – An ode to the magnetism and mystique of Donegal’s loftiest peak
A beguiling book about a mountain that has long held a hypnotic fascination for the author
War, Peace and the Derry Journal By Pat McArt: An editor known as ‘the last of the giants’ who never clicked with John Hume
The paper’s editor during its most troubled years believed they should be reporting critical voices of the SDLP founder
Michael Viney’s Natural World review: Late Irish Times writer’s book achieves the near impossible
Browser: Plus reviews of A Ramble About Tallaght: History, People, Places, by Albert Perris, and Twiggy Woman by Oein DeBhairduin
Local history: Accounts from the capitol’s Granite Coast to Voices of Connemara, among others
Regional stories that add to the rich tapestry of life on the island — the Dublin North Bay Area, Guarding the Wild Atlantic and more
Father and Son by Jonathan Raban: Sailing deep into the past
Posthumous memoir is full of the author’s trademark whimsy and watchfulness
Local history: Midlands memories, a crane factory in Kerry, railway tracks, St Patrick and marginalised groups
John Killeen, Tom Foley, Chris Larkin, Alannah Hopkin and Declan Henry present rich accounts of culture, commerce, transport, patron sainthood and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey
Author now splits his time between Cornwall and Connacht, drawing comparisons between the two