Coracle Press: An Irish Potato patch, is a quirky list of 11 old potato varieties. Coracle got the list from the 2008 Potato Report from Irish Seed Savers, Scarrif, County...
Over the past two centuries close to ten million people have departed Ireland, including Sadhbh Lynam. This series is a reflection on the importance of homeland and its impact on...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
Nothing Is Unseen is a book project about the idea of a city as a book: written and rewritten on by successive occupants and ramblers, their messages left for others to be...
A decade of rapid change caught by two of Ireland's premier photographers, The Lensmen. The 1960s: Ireland in Pictures covers everything from the visits of President Kennedy and The Beatles, to...
Bringing together the artist’s own photographs, found archival material, handmade drawings, oral accounts and extracts from literature, Lay Her Down Upon Her Back looks at the history of medical mistreatment...
Over a ten year period ‘Midlands’ has explored and mapped the physical transitions which are as a direct consequence of the promise of the National Spatial Strategy, and the physical...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
Caged is a collection of photography by artist Rachel Naughton. Caged speaks to being at a point in life where you begin to feel trapped in the routine of it...
Caged is a collection of photography by artist Rachel Naughton. 'Caged' speaks to being at a point in life where you begin to feel trapped in the routine of it...
Photographs by Erica Van Horn of Ulrich Ruckreim's barn housing his sculptures in Clonegal on the border between Co. Carlow and Co. Wexford in Ireland. Reprinted issued as part of...
William O’Neill is a visual artist living and working in Meath, Ireland. He graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design in...
How to Live Here is a visual arts project that asks questions about the artist's desire to return to rural Ireland as a queer woman who once left in search...
Alice Rekab (b. Dublin, 1987; lives and works in Dublin) studies the cultural and personal stories that are told about us as well as the ones we ourselves tell. Their...
While balancing unpaid emotional and domestic labour with full-time paid work, Emma O'Brien placed her photographic practice on hold. It was an indulgence she couldn't afford; Motherhood demanded this sacrifice....
"One of the first photographs to be taken was of the empty waiting room of the Emergency Department where I work. This was of course highly unusual for a department...
Roseanne Lynch had an 18 month residency at the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau in 2018 and 2019. She immersed herself there in the sites of the Bauhaus and its Materials Research...
Reduced price due to wearing on the corners.Diesel traces the illegal dumping of toxic waste material, commonly referred to as ‘sludge’, by diesel launderers at sites along the Irish border...
Irish Summers brings together a selection of images Harry Gruyaert made on trips to Ireland over the period 1983-84. While some of these photographs are included in a number of...
Emerging from a body of research into the entanglement of manmade systems and nonhuman life, The Sky Only Welcomes Those with Wings juxtaposes the vantage points of birds and people,...
The subject of this work is a small music scene composed of individuals who share Limerick City as a place to work, play, and live. Some of these artists thrive...
Dublin's Pop Punk PrinceSexes is a documentary piece that follows the Dublin punk scene over the course of a year. This book explores the domestic and public lives of Dublin punks. Pop...
Ireland’s archaeological monuments are evidence of a long and fascinating history. They are in a sense part of the very essence of the country, without which we would all be...
Mosse pushes the boundaries of photography to raise an urgent warning cry over catastrophic destruction in the Amazon rainforest. Devastation in the Amazon rainforest and the climate change it triggers...
To the Beat of the Drum comprises photographs of youthful members of Northern Ireland’s militaristic, Protestant marching bands, who McConnell carefully situates under the trippy magic of his super-chromatic, hedonistic lighting....
The latest body of work by Dublin-based photographer Dragana Jurišić, an on-going series comprising five fascinating chapters due to culminate into a fictionalised biography. Combining text and photography, appropriated imagery intermingles...
Abigail O’Brien’s Temperance is a cauldron of brimful of complexities, contradictions and dualities set in the context of an iconic Donegal sweet factory. This photobook was created after the artist...
While artist Abigail O’Brien was in the UK taking photos of the iconic Aston Martin sports car, the #MeToo movement was revving up around the world. Prince Andrew was being...
Prudence and the Game of Golf is a photobook of works by artist Abigail O’Brien RHA. The third exploration of The Natural Virtues to which Temperance, 2009 and Fortitude, 2005...
While bread and the craft of making it are nearly as old as civilisation itself, Pain au levain was the first leavened bread, probably discovered in Egypt six thousand years...
For over three decades Simon Watson has exhibited both his photographs and paintings in Europe and the U.S. His work is included in museums, public and private collections. Watson has...
The project took place through the winter month of 2020/2021, a lockdown in Kilbaha, Co Clare. The time had disintegrated like the foam of the ocean waves, leaving but a...
Gossamer is the third release in a trilogy of self-published books, following Belgrade (2013) and Boreal (2019). Each of these books serves as a document of a five-year period of...
Dublin Streets, an ongoing project, was born out of Lorcan’s love for the mini dramas he witnessed unfolding on our streets and the incredible Dublin characters who star in them....
X is a new limited edition photography book by Charles Moriarty, capturing the last decade of his work photographing men. The book brings together an intimate collection and follows Moriarty’s own personal journey....
The Drift///Parallax is a triptych of publications based on the stars Arcturus, Rigel, and Vega. This series uses image and text to consider constructs of masculinity and how they intersect...
Passing Time is a collaborative publication between the artists, An Gee Chan and Justin Larkin. The publication presents a series of paintings of nocturnal skies alongside a collection of etchings...
Pearse House: Village in the City is an extraordinary and unique exhibition by award-winning photographer Jeanette Lowe. In a series of startling photographs she has captured a hidden treasure of...
Newsprint publication to accompany the 2019 exhibition In the Wake of Brexit giving an overview of the multi-strand work BREXIT IS YOUR FAULT.
Self PublishedEdition of 100Newsprint with text inserts36 pages432 x 279 mm
Last chance to buy! Final copies signed by the artist. BREAKING NEWS: A Royal Wedding Souvenir came about as way a of venting Mark Duffy's frustrations at the way in...
Nollaig Molloy’s A Confection of Photographs investigates the assembly of archives and Ireland’s working class histories. Almost one hundred images, each scanned and reproduced from a single storage box found...
A travelogue narrated through bodily effluent. A motorway journey described in the call and response of the full bladder. A British road movie – Two Lane Blacktop and Wild At...
Spice boxes. Pilot training schools. Otters. God. Ireland’s roadsides are home to a shifting population of mad, bad, unauthorised advertisements. Some are temporarily rolled into fields on trailers, ready for...
Autofictions is the first major survey of Irish artist Trish Morrissey (b.1967), charting her career from the early 2000s, and presenting new work made especially for the accompanying exhibition at...
“Don’t be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, the time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate...
An iconic project made at the height of the ‘Troubles’, Troubled Land deals with the small but insistent signs of political division embedded in the landscape of Northern Ireland. At...
Taking Ulysses as a guide, Deirdre Brennan explores the changing face of Dublin over the last decade, capturing the rich tapestry of the city and its inhabitants in a series...
Seven Years (2001-2004) aims to deconstruct the trope of family photography by meticulously mimicking it. In the series, the title of which refers to the age gap between the artist...
Front (2005-2007) deals with the notion of borders, boundaries and the edge, using the family group and the beach setting as metaphors. For this work, the artist travelled to beaches...
"Through a series of film photographs, “No Queer Apologies” photo book and exhibition, aims to interrogate both our sense of place and the ways in which queerness exists, permeates and...
Published on occasion of PhotoIreland Festival 2021. What can a potato tell us about ourselves? What does it say about the construction of national identity? What role can new narratives about the potato play...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
A Woman Walks Alone At Night, With a Camera features photographs by Ruby Wallis and an essay by Phillina Sun, centered around the experience of walking at night as a...
All Sorts of Impossible Things is a personal body of work exploring the static hum and unique rhythm of everyday life in the city of Newburgh, New York. These photographs...
Of Bounds, which includes an essay by the artist, combines two works that focus on land reform, borders, and the design of space. ‘Líne’, a series of colour photographs shot over...
On Chorus is a national public sound artwork by Christopher Steenson that broadcast field recordings of Dublin's inner-city spring dawn chorus across Ireland, using Ianród Eireann's network of train station...
‘Dawn walks during the pandemic of 2020. A time of mourning, a time of sin-eating, a time of discovery, a time of quietude, a time of nature, and a time...
Appropriated from a Belfast School Year book circa 1965-66, these portraits depict youths on the cusp of adulthood during a time of great upheaval in the province. The Civil Rights...
The Warzone Collective began in 1984 in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland when a few local punks decided to consolidate their efforts and get their own venue, practice and...
Balance explores a place where human beings and nature work together and need each other to thrive. Taken over the duration of 2018 and 2019, quotes and imagery highlight the importance of The...
Some time later is the product of an exchange between the artist Brendan Earley and two writers, Pádraic E Moore and Chris Fite-Wassilak. The collaboration framed a space which allowed...
These 89 black & white photographs taken by Alen MacWeeney in Dublin in 1963/5 are spontaneous images of Dublin and Dubliners in all areas of the city, a street odyssey...
Asylum Archive is a political platform and an artefact of Direct Provision as the continuation of the history of Carceral Institutions in Ireland, bearing in mind that we have very...
Cafe Royal Books release weekly publications, focussing on post-war documentary photography linked to Britain and Ireland. This includes the work of photographers from all backgrounds, the widely known, the unseen and...
Cafe Royal Books release weekly publications, focussing on post-war documentary photography linked to Britain and Ireland. This includes the work of photographers from all backgrounds, the widely known, the unseen and...
Cafe Royal Books release weekly publications, focussing on post-war documentary photography linked to Britain and Ireland. This includes the work of photographers from all backgrounds, the widely known, the unseen and...
Cafe Royal Books release weekly publications, focussing on post-war documentary photography linked to Britain and Ireland. This includes the work of photographers from all backgrounds, the widely known, the unseen and...
Americans Anonymous is a pictorial road trip across the United States, a country that, in the wake of Donald Trump, has never been more divided. From East to West by...
For over 30 years Simon Watson has exhibited his photographs in Europe and the U.S. including solo shows at the late Richard Anderson Gallery in New York and the Auschwitz...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
Above The Fold is the culmination of an ambitious long-term project (2012-2020) from Irish artist Noel Bowler. Using his signature medium format film camera to photograph newspaper newsrooms across Europe, the United States and...
For Those That Tell No Tales began as a series of conversations between Dara McGrath and Dan Breen, curator of Cork Public Museum, around how the museum and Cork city...
“At a moment when the world is facing the world’s largest refugee and migration crisis since the Second World War, Incoming by Irish artist Richard Mosse deals with the major humanitarian and...
Suicide rates in Northern Ireland are amongst the highest in the world. More lives have been lost to suicide than those lost during the 'troubles'. In January 2020, Samaritans reported...
During the Rwandan genocide of 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of Rwanda murdered an estimated one million people (UN, 2012), mostly of the...
Pavilion Books’ Lost series traditionally looks at the cherished places of a city that time, progress and fashion have swept aside. However, using the new expanded 176-page format of the...
It Starts With Silence is a poignant story, in which the artist takes the reader on a deeply personal journey, as he searches for under-standing and solace. It depicts his...
Publishing an obituary in the Los Angeles Times seems to transform the lives of ordinary people into something extraordinary and poignant. Through the narrow column of an obituary, we glimpse...
The Light of Day is a retrospective of O'Shea's work, spanning 4 decades from 1979 to 2019. "Tony O’Shea is interested in the moment where the ritual and the casual face...
Dennis Dinneen was born in 1927 in the small market town of Macroom, County Cork. In 1944 he was studying medicine at University College Cork when his father passed away...
In these works, Sibéal performs “healing rituals” as a means of healing the mind and body. This body of work is where we first see her exploring performance within the...
Remembering the past always comes with an image or view attached. The Transcendence of Innocent Objects uses this premise to examine humankind’s continual forging of polymorphous stories. Exploring the remote...
Red Illuminates, a multimedia work comprising still and moving images, explores the concept of culture in socialist countries and how loyalty to the state is cultivated. The catalyst for the...
Male DJ's get booked more for festivlas and club nights than females on a regular basis. In the years 2017-2019, only 20.5% of festival acrys were female, while 70.3% were...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
On 30 April 2020, District Magazine, Junior Magazine, and PhotoIreland announced the launch of A New Normal, an open call created in response to an unprecedented event in our life-times:...
An ongoing series that conceptualises photography as an act of prayer with a central focus of the work being concerned with Irish histories. The work reflects on multiple concerns dealing...
During his two days in Ireland for the World Meeting of Families in August of 2018, Pope Francis made three public appearances, culminating in a mass in Phoenix Park. In...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not...
Holy Pictures captures the last vestiges of popular devotional practices once widespread in Ireland. Tony Murray’s vivid images from the late 1970s and early 1980s are a compelling record of an...
In Finglas during the 1970s, an area known as Dunsink, a wild place mostly used for recreational purposes by the local community for walks and amateur horse racing, was destroyed....
This substantial review of Eamonn Doyle's practice has been published to accompany a large exhibition that took place at Mapfre Foundation 12 September 2019 to 26 January 2020, Madrid. Including...
Monte Cassino: Con Amore is an exploration by Steven Nestor of the destruction of a small Italian town Monte Cassino and its monastery in the Second World War. Surviving copies...
"The photographs that form i gestated as I started to feel my way back into photography following a long break. Around that time I was re-discovering the work of Samuel Beckett,...
Eamonn Doyle’s second photo-book, ON, follows last year’s i, a widely acclaimed collection of street portraits that drew significant plaudits from, among others, Martin Parr. In ON, black and white...
“Days in Derry are long. There’s not a whole lot to do except hang out, wasting time. Essentially I am imposing my ideas of youth, freedom, beauty and rebellion on...
In his Dublin trilogy (i, ON and End.) Eamonn captured the combined actions of the city and its population as they played out in front of him. With K, he...
In 1963 President de Gaulle initiated a new urban planning project, known as 'La Mission Racine', to develop a stretch of French coastline between Montpellier and Perpignan into a series...
Seeds From The Zoo (2016) is a self-published photo book that includes a selection of images — some of which were included in the Townhouse Gallery exhibition They Usually Lie Around A...
The title, Buddleia, comes from the name of a plant, otherwise known as the Butterfly Bush, that Eric has began to associate with more over the course of the project,...
Fight Night takes place over two nights in Dublin city in the Summer of 2007. It follows members of the Wild Geese kickboxing club as some prepare to go out...
The work imprints the rituals, decisive moments and flow of a GAA club game onto the backdrop of the local environment. Football, hurling, camogie and ladies football games – Ireland’s...
The tulip was introduced into Europe at the end of the 16th century, having been exported from the Ottoman Empire. The Dutch took to the flower and started to grow...
Traditionally, instruction manuals have been the perfect source for practical solutions. Experts in specific subjects provide written authority on how to repair faults and carry out tasks from scratch. McCullough...
Created as both installation and publication, End. is a collaborative work by Eamonn Doyle, Niall Sweeney and David Donohoe. Built around the photographs of Doyle, it also features drawing and...
Tony O'Shea's Christmas Turkey Market, Dublin 1990-1993 was published as an edition of 200, in December 2015 Cafe Royal Books are a weekly photographic publications focussing broadly on aspects of change, usually within...
CONTENTS The present pack offers Eamonn Doyle’s two photobooks: – Eammon Doyle, i. This is a unique chance to get a copy of Doyle’s first book, initially launched at The...
As part of the 1916 commemorations, the Royal Hibernian Academy approached the photographer David Farrell to consider responding to the broader global situation of that time with the war in Europe raging on...
