Intimacy with Strangers: A Life of Brief Encounters by Ciaran Carty. Lilliput Press, €17. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
A Capital in Conflict: Dublin City and The 1913 Lockout. Edited by Francis Devine Dublin City Council, €25.15.
The GAA v Douglas Hyde by Cormac Moore. Collins Press, €15. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
The Undivided Past by David Cannadine. Allen Lane, €25.20. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
The Origins of the Irish by JP Mallory. Thames & Hudson, €25.15. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March and My Fight for Freedom by Sam Pivnik. Hodder & Stoughton, €17.60. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
A Yankee in de Valera's Ireland: The Memoir of David Gray by David Gray, edited by Paul Bew. Royal Irish Academy, €25.20. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation by Mark Pagel. Allen Lane, €31.50. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 - Where the Terror Began by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark. Harper Press, €21.40. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
By Caoimhe Nic Dhábhéid Liverpool University Press, €81.90 Seán MacBride A Republican Life: 1904-1946
Sean Lemass: Democratic Dictator By Bryce Evans Collins Press, €15
All families have stories, and most especially large emigrant families whose members have each made singular journeys (financed by older, already departed siblings) at different times to be reunited in a place of exile or of economic and sexual liber
WB Yeats & George Yeats, The Letters. Oxford University Press, €31.50
When Mahatma Gandhi was once asked by a reporter what he thought of western civilisation, he famously replied - with delicate irony - that he thought it would be a good idea. Kenneth Clarke had no sense of irony when, in 1969, he made his famous tele
Poetry exists in every generation, often as invisible but as essential as plankton.
