Tramp Press

25/08/2026

This Friday 28th August! Join us and let's have a Very Normal Launch!

25/08/2026

Read about Roisin Kiberd's The Most Normal Woman in this interview with Aoife Barry and come to the launch on Friday 28th!

The journalist and writer’s new essay collection dissects the concepts of beauty and identity in the present age

24/08/2026

In case you missed it, Maggie Armstrong wrote a column this weekend in the Irish Independent Lifestyle about her hilarious and depressing experience on a dating app. For more of Maggie's wry evisceration of the contemporary dating scene, check out her short story collection OLD ROMANTICS.

https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/sex-relationships/i-am-42-now-and-my-children-are-small.-the-gin-soaked-way-doesnt-work-any-more-and-ive-been-too-many-years-alone-not-to-give-this-other-way-a-go/a/159165156.html

Pick up Old Romantics here: https://tramppress.com/product/old-romantics-available-now/

22/08/2026

In today's Irish Times magazine, talks to Aoife Barry about appearance and identity, authenticity and embracing weirdness for her new book The Most Normal Woman. Check it out. You can buy the book now!

20/08/2026

The Most Normal Woman: Essays on Appearances by Roisin Kiberd will be launched on Friday 28th August at Hodges Figgis at 6pm!

17/08/2026

We will be launching The Most Normal Woman: Essays on Appearances by Roisin Kiberd on Friday 28th August at 6pm in Hodges Figgis, introduced by Elaine Feeney. We hope to see you all there!

09/08/2026

In today's O, The Observer Magazine Roisin Kiberd asks if it's the end of the Clean Girl era. Rosin's new essay collection The Most Normal Woman gets into how we present ourselves and will be published on the 27th, launching in Dublin on the 28th!

05/08/2026

The Most Normal Woman: Essays on Appearances by Roisin Kiberd will be published on 27th of August and we'll have details soon for the Dublin launch on the 28th, so make a note in your diary to be there and be normal with us!

Cover design by Elisha Zepeda

28/07/2026

'Sits somewhere between Joan Didion and Louis Theroux'
– Amy Liptrot

‘The Most Normal Woman is invigorating, stylish, deeply humane and endlessly fun to read. In all their variety and vitality, these superb essays combine into a beguiling and unnerving reflection of contemporary selfhood in the capitalist wilderness of mirrors.’
– Mark O'Connell

The Most Normal Woman Woman: Essays on Appearances by Roisin Kiberd will be published at the end of August!

Preorder now from your favourite book slinger. Here's a couple of options:

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28/07/2026

'Colin Sheridan: For Mayo and its people, nothing will ever feel like this again'

'After 75 years of longing, Mayo's triumph was a collective exhale for the generations gone who never knew an All-Ireland victory over their own'

Love the nod to Solar Bones at the end there! I think everyone in Mayo has a copy now at this stage.

After 75 years of longing, Mayo's triumph was a collective exhale for the generations gone who never knew an All-Ireland victory over their own