Mercier Press

04/06/2026

An interview with debut Mercier author and Faber Academy alumni Rebecca Murphy! Blood & Water is now available in all good bookshops and on the Mercier website 📚

We caught up with Faber Academy graduate Rebecca Murphy following the publication of her debut novel Blood & Water to discuss her time on our Finish Your Draft course, the inspiration behind her sweeping family saga, her unconventional journey to publication – and the writing routine that helped h...

04/06/2026

One family. One city. 350 years of history brought to life.

From a post-Famine farm boy to the heart of Belfast’s most defining moments, this extraordinary memoir traces the Twomey family through conflict, resistance, and cultural revival — from the British Army to the rise of the outbreak of the troubles, to the rebirth of the Irish language in the city today.

This is not history from above — it’s history lived, fought, and remembered.

Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand modern Ireland’s complex origins and Belfast’s journey from sectarian stronghold to diverse bilingual city, this book offers unique insights into how historical trauma becomes cultural renewal and how one family’s story illuminates an entire community’s struggle for dignity, equality and identity.

A powerful, deeply human story of identity, survival and transformation in modern Ireland.

Out in July, and now available to pre-order via our website, link in bio 📚

03/06/2026

The explosive conclusion to Ireland’s revolutionary saga — where former comrades turn guns on each other in Dublin’s blood-soaked streets and a nation’s dream of freedom becomes a nightmare of civil war.

MANY OF OUR BEST LIE THERE explores unforgettable characters and stories, such as the almost supernatural warnings ignored before Michael Collins, Ireland’s most charismatic leader, met his tragic fate. Follow legendary figures like Harry Boland, Ernie O’Malley and Joe O’Connor as they navigate betrayal, capture and the psychological scars of revolution.

This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how modern Ireland was truly born — not just in the glory of 1916–1921, but in the ashes of civil war.

Dublin 1916 - 1923 Then & Now

Out in June, now available to pre-order on the link in our bio 📚

02/06/2026

An author interview 🙌Read about Carina McNally's inspiration behind Mithim as well as her writing journey on writing.ie

https://www.writing.ie/interviews/women-in-history-mithim-carina-mcnally/

Carina McNally, author of Mithim, asks: What about all the other Irish women that history forgot? I’ve written for as long as I remember. My first qualification when I left school was a City and Gu…

02/06/2026

🌊FLOOD TIDE 🌊by Séamus Ó Néill, translated by Eithne Ó Néill

Dublin, August 1939. Liam, a journalist from Ulster, returns from his Rhine honeymoon with his Dublin bride, Eileen, just as the world tips into war. He is certain of two things: that he has married the woman he loves, and that his life as a writer is about to begin. Instead, the Emergency settles over daily life, and the marriage begins to unravel. Through family Christmas gatherings and a champagne-soaked night cycling home through a moonlit Dublin and a Gaeltacht stay that shatters his romantic vision of an all-Irish Ireland, Ó Néill builds a vivid portrait of a society at a crossroads – and of a man slowly discovering that the life he imagined and the life he is living have become two very different things.

Written in Irish in 1946, Tonn Tuile was the first novel to document Ireland’s new urban Catholic middle class from the inside. Now translated into English for the first time by the author’s daughter, Eithne O’Neill.

Out in July! Pre-order on the Mercier website, link in bio 📚

01/06/2026

01/06/2026

Many of Our Best Lie There is out on the 9th of June, and it is available to pre-order now on the Mercier website

01/06/2026

NEUROQUEER by is OUT NOW 💚🩷🩵

In this warm and gloriously candid memoir about ADHD, q***rness, love, and everything nobody thought to explain, CJ DeBarra – Irish journalist, non-binary West Cork exile, and lifelong owner of a brain that refused to behave – asks whether reaching their mid-thirties might finally be enough time to understand themselves.

Part memoir, part guide, NEUROQUEER fearlessly explores the raw realities of heartbreak, desire and q***r identity, while shedding light on the alarmingly low diagnosis rates for women, transgender, and non-binary individuals. CJ draws on academic research, medical studies and the lived experience of other q***r ADHD people to ask what might have been different if someone had told them sooner – and demands better for everyone still waiting to be told.

CJ DeBarra (they/them) is an author and journalist from West Cork, now based in Nottingham. CJ was named on the 2026 DIVA magazine power list as a role model and is the founder of the Notts Q***r History Archive.

Available in all good bookshops and on our website, link in bio 📚


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