Menma Books

19/12/2024

December may be a busy time, but make sure you’re getting some time to snuggle up by the fire with a good book 📚🎄

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08/12/2024

The Irish Times review on The Long Look Back by Tom MacDonagh, one of our recent publications. 📖 Available online for subscribers.

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18/11/2024

Rosita Sweetman in The Irish Times and Liam Collins in the Sunday Independent have high words of praise for this enthralling memoir of Dublin working-class life.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/11/09/book-reviews-placeholders-the-long-look-back-leaning-on-gates/

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/tom-macdonaghs-the-long-look-back-is-a-dublin-misery-memoir-peppered-with-elizabeth-taylor-and-all-that-jazz/a1590085389.html

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The author: Tom MacDonagh was born in New York in 1934 and returned with his parents in 1938 to Portobello in Dublin, where he still lives. His previous publications include My Green Age, published in 1986 by Poolbeg Press amd his story ‘A Sort of Love Story’, selected by David Marcus and includ...

06/11/2024

📚A perfect gift for lovers of nature.

🕊️On Land and Water is a visual feast that combines the work of two great naturalists, wildlife photographer Sheena Jolley and poet D. J. O’Sullivan. 🌿

An independent publisher based in West Cork, Ireland

29/10/2024

🕊️ On Land and Water, launching on November 2nd, combines the work of two great Irish naturalists, photographer Sheena Jolley and poet D. J. O’Sullivan.

📸Sheena Jolley has gained a huge international reputation as a wildlife photographer and will be well known to Irish television viewers as a judge on RTÉ’s “Eye on Nature” photo competition.

📖D. J. O’Sullivan was a lighthouse keeper, and a noted naturalist who published two acclaimed volumes of poetry and won the first Poetry Ireland Award in 1980.

➡️Visit our website to read about On Land and Water in more detail, and pre-order your copy now.

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11/10/2024

We’re excited to announce the upcoming launch of On Land and Water, coming in October. 🌿🍁

Sheena Jolley has gained a huge international reputation as a wildlife photographer and will be well known to Irish television viewers as a judge on RTÉ’s “Eye on Nature” photo competition. D.  J. O’Sullivan was a lighthouse keeper and a noted naturalist who published two acclaimed volumes of poetry and won the first Poetry Ireland Award in 1980.

The introduction has been written by biologist and radio and TV presenter Éanna Ní Lamhna.

This captivating book combines the work of photographer Sheena Jolley and poet D. J. O’Sullivan. 📸📝

19/09/2024

Readers are loving this memoir 📖👏
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With its themes of religious guilt, shame, curiosity, class struggle, and cultural identity, The Long Look Back serves as an evocative testament to coming of age at a special time in a special place.

14/09/2024

A raw portrait of childhood in a forgotten Dublin: Tom MacDonagh tells with uncompromising honesty and a wry sense of humour what it was like to grow up in inner-city Dublin during the 1940s and 1950s. With its themes of religious guilt, shame, curiosity, class struggle, and cultural identity, The Long Look Back serves as an evocative testament to coming of age at a special time in a special place

An independent publisher based in West Cork, Ireland

24/07/2024

Menma Books author Mary Rose Callaghan writes in The Irish Times about her grandmother, a founder of Ireland's first film production company.

Mary Rose's fascinating memoir of coming of age in genteel poverty, The Deep End, was published by Menma in 2023.

The Film Company of Ireland and the new artform of cinema

24/06/2024

Have you read Dan Harvey’s Car Bombs and Barrack Busters? ☘️ The book provides a fascinating account of the history of the Ordnance Corps, including its operation overseas in peace-keeping missions.

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08/06/2024

A must read for history and theatre fans! 🎭

It was mid December the 1920s in Cork City, when British Crown Forces set fire to multiple buildings - including the

Ger Fitzgibbon’s debut novel invites readers to explore the possibilities of what could have happened on one famous night in Cork City, if the timing had been ever so slightly different…

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06/06/2024

✨Must Reads ✨

Looking for a page turner? 📖

Our selection of books are guaranteed to add some Irish flavour to your reading list this summer ☀️

Browse through our website and check out our current reads from some incredible Irish authors - we publish a range of high quality fiction and nonfiction. ☘️

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30/05/2024

Some lovely photos from from Ger Fitzgibbon’s book launch for Songs For A Burning City in

23/05/2024

Songs For A Burning City is a piece of Irish history reimagined ☘️ We are privileged to have the opportunity to work with such talented authors.

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21/05/2024

Ger Fitzgibbon reading from his debut novel, Songs For A Burning City at his book launch in

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21/05/2024

Ger FitzGibbon on writing his debut novel ‘Songs For A Burning City’, a work of historical fiction set in Cork Opera House during the Irish War of Independence.

Available for €17.50

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Irish Examiner full story: https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41380318.html

18/05/2024

Make sure to pick up a copy of today and read the wonderful review from Brigid O’Dea on Phyl Herbert’s powerful memoir, The Price Of Silence.

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15/05/2024

The 100th anniversary of the burning of Cork was not commemorated, Ger FitzGibbon tells Elmarie Mawe, so he decided to write a novel about it.

Elmarie Mawe presents The Arts House on Cork's 96fm — The latest news and reviews from the worlds of Theatre, Cinema, Showbiz & Literature.