Menma Books

23/08/2025

06/07/2025

A gripping tale of hurling as it was played two centuries ago Hurling 1810 is set against the background of a forgotten era in the history of hurling—when landlords controlled the game and large sums of money were at stake.For Seán O’Meara, taking the pay of landlord Charles Kavanagh is already...

23/06/2025

Fantastic review in Books Ireland of Rosita Sweetman’s Girl with a Fork in a World. And the cover went down well also

Compulsive and ruthlessly honest—Girl With a Fork in A World of Soup, by Rosita Sweetman (Menma Books) by John Kirkaldy This is a compulsive book that you will read in one sitting. It starts with three essential ingredients. Menma Books are to be congratulated on the most intriguing front cover th...

22/06/2025

Did you know that hurling was once played almost on a professional level? Conor Power’s new novel gives a fascinating insight into this forgotten period.

18/06/2025

With more and more threats to Irish wildlife, this book is a timely reminder of how much we have to lose.

07/06/2025

Rosita Sweetman on writing ‘Girl with a Fork in a World of Soup’ in an in-depth interview with Gráinne Blair at the United Arts Club in Dublin.

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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