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This book is currently out of print. How To Soften Corners is a playful how-to guide to hospitality. It tells the story of an art project/college canteen called Luncheonette which...
Swimmers come to the sea for many reasons. For over a year, photographic artist Gerry Blake has been examining the ritual practice of regular sea swimming. Visiting more than 10...
a cartography of the middle of nowhere is a charting of spatial ontologies which centre ideals and areas of radical resistance for those who dwell in the margins. Unfolding out...
In a culture dominated by prescriptive rationality, and the reduction of language to functions, Looking for a Sign champions the intersectional practices of art and magic, exploring their capacity to...
Lay Her Down Upon Her Back is a body of work that examines the legacy of the 1880s treatment known as The Rest Cure. It was generally prescribed to women who...
The photographs in Verges examine the potential for everyday resistance through the growth and habits of weeds. Attending more closely to our ordinary surroundings and appreciating the familiar undermines the capitalist desire...
Every year, thousands gather during the last week of July to attend the Galway Races, Ireland’s historic horse racing event. The ensuing chaos provides cover for Galway’s youth to engage...
The decade 1982-92 was a difficult time for Irish women. The 8th amendment to the constitution passed in 1983 made it not just illegal to obtain an abortion in Ireland...
Moyross was constructed in 1970 on the outskirts of Limerick City as a solution to a growing housing crisis. After the initial years of hope and optimism passed, Moyross began...
Housing Unlocked: Ideas from a Living Room is the companion book which gathers the ideas, ambitions and debates of the award-winning Housing Unlocked architecture exhibition. Housing Unlocked is a collaboration...
The series is produced from interactions with people and communities in the location of Moore Street Dublin – a historical quarter famously known as being the soul of city trading....
Growing up in Dublin in the late 70’s-early 80’s, there were plenty of outdoor religious events such as the blessing of the animals, the cross being carried by locals in...
This body of work was made over a short period of time spent in rural Wexford, Ireland, “in a place so overwhelmingly familiar to me, it was as though I...
“… every poem is a queering of language; every poetry critic is a critic of the queer; every reader of poetry is engaged in a queer act; every performance of...
What is artistic research? What is a research document? How do these relate to the making process, invention, and creativity? What exactly is expected of me? If you have ever...
Embrace subjectivity. Nomadologise. Unclog digital neuroses. Reconnect with the ancients. Atomise. Overflow with information. Make love piratic. Plagiarise with the girls. Weave webs of excess. Become a girlblogger. What does...
Foreign Exchange: Conversations on Architecture Here and Now presents new nine new essays that respond to the online conversation series, which took place during one of the most turbulent periods...
This zine turns our eyes to the great histories of natural dyers. Women, witches and healers throughout time have practised dyeing out of necessity and joy, and passed down the sacred...
From the mid 70’s through the 80’s, Saint Patrick’s Day was very special for Frank Miller. While often he shot the parade as a staffer for the Irish Press Group,...
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...
Too often a design or architecture degree is seen as a means to an end (a job in an established practice). The current economic climate has seen many graduates chasing...
Between 1970-73 tenants throughout Ireland stopped paying rent in protest against rent increases, poor housing conditions and a rising cost of living. Their eventual victory was described in The Irish...
A zine by Lewis Bush containing step by step instructions for making ten zine structures, ranging from simple one page zines requiring no glueing, to much more complex structures. Self...
"The Random View pays tribute to the towns of the west of Ireland. Thirty years ago—a lifetime—I first came to Ireland. Surrounded by sublime scenery I found ordinary towns, ordinary life,...
A vital and tender record of the quilts that have shaped history — and the hands that stitched them. Throughout history, marginalised communities have turned to the collective intimacies of...
From rooting around in quilt history books, Connecticut-based quilter Bailey Raha created this beautiful hand-drawn zine. It presents an alphabetical collection of quilt blocks, some common, some less so. A6 in...
With a Foreword by Dermot Bannon and an introductory essay by the architect Jonathan Sergison, The Dublin Architecture Guide is a companion guide to the modern architecture of Dublin. With...
In 2018, a brochure entitled “If War Or Crisis Comes” was sent to every household in Sweden by the government with the purpose of informing citizens how to act in...
Punks Listen is the third in a series of ‘benefit books’ from the Hope Collective, Dublin’s punk/Do-It-Yourself group. It is designed to raise funds for the Red Cross Ukraine Refugee...
Wayside is a condensed, fleeting road adventure across Ireland from Wexford through to the well trodden lands of Ireland’s Atlantic coastline. Feeling incapable of documenting such unbridled beauty, Pannell remarks...
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces...
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....
Many species of Madouvehs can be encountered on the wild steppes of the session. Rich, poor, male, female, gay, lesbian, non-binary - one thing that unites all these groups is...
Amelia Troubridge's Urban Cowboys, Dublin 1996 was published as an edition of 250, in 2020. Cafe Royal Books are a weekly photographic publications focusing broadly on aspects of change, usually within the UK. Café...
This zine tells the story of the Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt.Created in collaboration with the team behind the quilt, this zine features essays, interviews and photographs from Daniel Fountain,...
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...
Unravelling the semantics of the ugly jumper, the ratty cardigan and the squishy mittens. Softness is a poetic reflection on hand-knitting and the neglected objects that give us nourishment. A straggly...
Mass Paths is a series of handcrafted photographs, landscapes of the Irish countryside embedded with absence. They portray the traces of paths walked by Catholics to reach illegal mass during...
“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...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England and was set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while...
Fantasy Island offers a comprehensive exploration of the last 50 years of Irish photography, featuring the work of 70 Irish artists. The publication takes a stripped-back approach, prioritising the strength...
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...
This booklet, published in 2023 by Common Ground, Create and Half Letter Press, traces the richness and diversity of artist Kate O'Shea's response to the Just City Counter Narrative Neighbourhood...
Let’s Take the Wrong Way Home is a collection of photomontage works representing landscapes that do not exist, an exercise in creation, destruction and after Vilém Flusser ‘playing against the...
This business book is aimed at early career artists and helps to equip them with the practical tools needed to approach their careers, shining light upon some things that are...
Young Dubliners is a celebration of the unique character of Dublin’s youth. During a time of economic struggle in Ireland, a housing shortage in Dublin and austerity measures squeezing public...
This CRB edition features Markéta Luskačová's scenes of Ireland 1972-73. Markéta Luskačová is a Czech photographer known for her series of photographs taken in Slovakia, Britain, Ireland and elsewhere. Considered...
Under ‘natural’ circumstances, the average woman would get pregnant about 15 times in her life, resulting in ten births. Seven of those babies would survive childhood. For centuries, people have...
This second publication in the Exchange Series, Dublin Exchange responds to a specific moment in the city’s architecture history. In 2021, architect Niall McCullough (1958–2021) died. McCullough was one of...
Showa35mm is an archive of 35mm film photographs taken in Japan between 1950-1989. It is named after the period of Showa era of Japanese history (1926-1989), in combination with the...
Echo’s Bones is a public art project led by Sarah Browne with autistic young people in North County Dublin. It borrows its title from an unpublished story by Samuel Beckett...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England and was set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally...
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 Gaeltacht...
Peter O' Doherty is a Dublin based documentary photographer. By trade he is a videographer and since 2003 he has been capturing the changing city combining hid love of photography...
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...
“Diasporic Threads platforms a stunning selection of works by contemporary Black women textile artists and is rich in critical insight and historical context.” - Ferren Gipson, author of Women's Work:...
Radical! Women and the Irish Revolution is a pamphlet of poems, images, translation, and research notes created by Julie Morrissy. The pamphlet is a result of Morrissy’s time as the...
With a preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge and an introduction by Sara Ahmed Audre Lorde (1934-92) described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Born in New York, she had her...
Girl on Girl looks at how women are using photography, the internet and the female gaze to explore self-image and female identity in contemporary art. A new generation of women is...
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...
Part how-to manual, part history, and part socio-political critique, Artist-Run Europe looks at the conditions, organisational models, and role of artist-led practice within contemporary art and society. The aim is...
This is the third edition of Screenprinting as Gaeilge: treoir bhunúsach, an illustrated Irish language guide to screenprinting. Covering the history, materials, tools, and processes, this book provides a brief...
LACUNA looks at the contemporary experience of borders in flux through an engagement with the landscape and inhabitants of the small village of Pettigo. Pettigo straddles the border between Donegal...
This CRB edition features Betrand Carrière's eclectic scenes of Ireland in 1986. Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way...
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...
'Bull Island is a nature reserve in north Dublin. It formed over 200 years ago due to changes in currents in Dublin Bay following the construction of the North Bull...
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...
Humans lack the capacity to comprehend geological time, a breadth unfathomable from our biological perspective. Our callous extraction of resources negates the patience of geomorphology. The Burren’s karst landscape instinctively...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and...
In My Women, Nazaret uses poetry to explore her relationships with the women in her life and the very experience of being one. From tender poems to her grandmother, to...
Nothing less than a history of Ireland sculpted in semi-solid emulsion, ‘Butter Intervention’ is sceptical about narratives and their revisions alike, as refined and as salty as the creamery product...
In recent decades, Ireland has experienced a significant shift from a deep rooted Catholic orthodoxy. This project explores how traditional Catholic practices, such as mass rocks, reenactments, holy wells and...
The publication BREAD BANTER accompanies the project and performance of artist April Gertler TAKE THE CAKE: SODA BREAD, first performed in Temple Bar Gallery + Studio, Dublin, and at Crawford...
Repackaged for 2022 with an additional essay and new design elements! In Strangers, Rebecca Tamás explores where the human and nonhuman meet, and why this delicate connection just might be...
First published in France in 2013, My Mother Laughs is the final book written by the legendary and beloved Belgian artist and director Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) before her death. A moving and...
Paula Meehan was invited by Dublin City Council to write an artistic response during the development phase of the 14 Henrietta Street museum. The following year Dragana Jurišić was invited...
Puck Fair is an annual event held in Killorglin, County Kerry, with a history dating back over 400 years. The fair centers around the capture of a wild goat, which...
IT WOKE ME FROM MY SLEEP is a new monograph of recent work. It opens with a wonderful essay by Cristín Leach and closes with an in-conversation text with Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll....
The Book of Black captures the art and aesthetics of the Gothic in contemporary arts, photography and visual culture. The book celebrates renowned artists such Mat Collishaw, The Chapman Brothers, Tim...
Following a family bereavement in 2013, O’ Connor returned home to live and work on the family farm. Tomorrow is Sunday is an on-going photographic project which engages with this...
In 2006, cavers made exciting archaeological discoveries in the Burren, Co. Clare. Within the findings, a poignant revelation was also made: the skeleton of a Bronze Age child. The archaeologists...
An exploration of gender and desire from our most exciting new public intellectual. “Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.” Females is Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England and was set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while...
Textiles have long been part of the fabric of disabled people’s lives and history. In common with banners of the women’s suffrage movement and trade unions, disabled activists have embraced...
Cottages of Quigley's Point makes use of photographed interventions in abandoned houses to question romantic readings of the rural Irish cottage. An exploration of the numerous ruined dwellings near Jill's...
In recent decades, Ireland has experienced a significant shift from a deep rooted Catholic orthodoxy. This project explores how traditional Catholic practices, such as mass rocks, reenactments, holy wells and...
When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder was a call to arms against the deadening hand of modernist urban planning upon the thriving chaotic city. Written in the...
A collection of photography by 1eurofiddy, Irish street photographer who captures the raw and unsanitised reality of life on the streets of the nation's capital. This zine documents the day-to-day...
Rich in uneasy contrast, East Belfast’s people once staffed the industrial heyday of the shipyards that dictate its skyline. Still the most staunchly Protestant compass point of a demarcated city,...
'In the tranquil embrace of my garden, where nature quietly reclaimed its space during the stillness of the pandemic, I found a world teeming with unassuming beauty. Through my lens,...
Paper Visual Art (PVA) began as an online journal of art criticism, established in 2009 by Niamh Dunphy. Now based between Dublin and Berlin. PVA began as a response to what was...
I Wish I'm Not Wasted is a hand-bound risograph zine by An Gee Chan, a fine artist from Royal College of Art / Fine Art Printmaking. Chan's unique, simplistic illustration style is both...
Curator Conversations is a collection of interviews with leading curators working within contemporary photography today. It offers precious insights into key modes of thinking behind the curatorial practices that have...
Sparks art practices, art education and creativity by setting inspiring frameworks and questions Stimulates cooperation and cross-disciplinary thinking and practising Funny, crazy, awe-inspiring, poetical, bold; in its bandwidth a truly...
'Visual artist’ is a term with untold interpretations, nuances, variations and meanings. But how, as an artist (or designer, photographer, or other ‘independent creator’), do you become who you are...
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...
The success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone – the pleasures of aggression and violence are just as essential. As such, racism is particularly...
With limited amount of signed copies available. The new collection from 'one of America's most legendary living poets' (Ocean Vuong), written in the drive to fall in love with the...
How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing, engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, art professionals and other aspiring writers, the book...
Confronting the work of widely celebrated photographers Annie Leibovitz, Gregory Crewdson and Andreas Gursky, Photography’s Neoliberal Realism examines how these artists produce capitalism’s equivalent of the Soviet Union’s socialist realism by giving...
In My Men, Nazaret Ranea presents a collection of poems reflecting on her experiences with the men who shaped her life. In this intimate zine, Nazaret bares her soul, delving...
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...
A pamphlet of ideas for a new art world, written by The White Pube a collaborative identity of Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad. The art world is a bit broken....
At turns humorous and absurd, heartfelt and searching, Photo No-Nos is for photographers of all levels wishing to avoid easy metaphors and to sharpen their visual communication skills. Photographers often...
Dark Side of the Spoon: The Rock Cookbook features thirty recipes inspired by some of the most renowned rock acts of today and yesteryear. The dishes are accompanied by exclusive...
Note: This is a publication part of the New Irish Works series. Jan McCullough’s already published book is available here. Traditionally, instruction manuals have been the perfect source for practical solutions....
The Cowboy is a short illustrated zine exploring the concept of cowboys and their space in queerness as a stereotypically masculine societal role. A risograph love letter to cowboys and queer masculinity...
Focail na mBan is a gathering of Irish words for vaginas, vulvas, clitorises and periods with illustrations from 29 artists. It is meant as a catalyst for those willing to...
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...
Among Oak is an artist’s book for all ages that tells stories about the natural world from a more-than-human perspective. The book is a collaboration between visual designer Nóra Békés...
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...
A zine dedicated to a screen icon. She's the Madam Butterfly of San Francisco! She's a tousled Monica Vitti on a vespa! She's eating a macaroon in D&G! The gays...
Wren Day, also known Lá an Dreoílín, is a traditional celebration that takes place on December 26th in various parts of Ireland, including Dingle, County Kerry. Traditionally, men and boys...
It Reeks of Radio is a book-length poem composed entirely from fragments of communication around historical (pre-1980s) RTÉ Radio programming - the result of poet Christodoulos Makris' year-long engagement with...
Photographer Gregory Dunn's second Photobook on Dublin and its people. Portrayed is based in Stoneybatter, where the photographer has lived for almost 30 years.
Published by Zero GEdition of 400Hardcover96 pages170 × 190 mmISBN 9780956043986
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...
British-born photographer Janette Beckman began her career at the dawn of punk rock working for music magazines The Face and Melody Maker. She shot bands including the Clash, the Specials,...
Embarking on the journey of single fatherhood, Finbar Flanagan grapples with the intricacies of assuming the maternal role for his three children in their rural Irish abode, all while upholding...
In a series of written exchanges, David Campany and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa consider the options for photography in resisting the oppressive orthodoxies of racial capital, conservative history, and neoliberal visual culture....
Katy Finnegan is a writer based in Dublin. She writes short fiction and poetry on themes related to sexuality and the body. Her work engages with transgressive subject matter and...
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...
In this play—a perpetual stew—the so-called “accessories” and “props” of artists take center stage. No longer silent or subordinate, these objects speak, question, and disrupt, revealing the often-invisible infrastructures that...
Explorations into Visual Reproduction, Perception and Randomness Moving Through Images questions how images and (visual) reproductions of physical surroundings influence our gaze and perception. This two-part publication was developed as both...
Bless the Corners of This House: (And Open Every Door, to Stranger as to Kin) is a collection of perspectives from Ireland-based artists, writers, and activists exploring the meaning of...
'Lesbian Art Circle' is a publication and event series based in Dublin, Ireland which centres the visual and written work of queer women. The themes of 'Lesbian Art Circle, Volume...
Dublin has captured countless imaginations and inspired some of the greatest artists and writers throughout history. Focused on D1, Dublin’s city centre, photographer Eamonn Doyle’s three major bodies of work,...
Bungalow Bliss, first published in 1971, was a book of house designs that buyers could use to build a home for themselves affordably. It first appeared two years before Ireland...
Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked...
As museums shut worldwide in 2020 because of the novel coronavirus, New York-based cultural strategist András Szántó conducted a series of interviews with an international group of museum leaders. In...
This book examines how Western photographic practice has been used as a tool for creating Eurocentric and violent visual regimes, and demands that we recognise and disrupt the ingrained racist...
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...
From the ancient civilisations that revered them as guardians to our contemporary homes where they embody loyalty and love, dogs have etched their paw prints onto the tapestry of our...
Deeply rooted in a form of artistic 'barefoot anthropology' 'Shaved Rapunzel, Scheherazade & the Shearling Ram from Arcady' reflects both on the culture of disconnection from the natural environment and...
New Farmer pretends to be a collection of documentary photographs published by an agribusiness in the 1960s to celebrate the success of the Green Agricultural Revolution. As the narrative unfolds,...
Figure-ground perception is the cognitive mechanism through which we apprehend our surroundings, isolating the figure – the words on the page, the features of a face, the lines on a...
Note: This is a publication part of the New Irish Works series. Enda Bowe’s already published book is available here. At Mirrored River was inspired by the Gaelic word Teannalach (pron....
“Hair is everything. We wish it wasn’t so we could actually think about something else occasionally, but it is.” (Words by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag)'Homemade Undercuts' is a new photographic body...
'Frustrated Writers' Group, Vol. 2' is a group anthology of writing and visual art from this artists' co-operative. The publication emerges from the group's twice-monthly writing workshops at the Unit...
Wet Dream is the second publication of photographic work by visual artist, Brian Teeling. This work has been commissioned by the Irish Museum of Modern Art and was first exhibited...
In Strangers, Rebecca Tamás explores where the human and nonhuman meet, and why this delicate connection just might be the most important relationship of our times. From ‘On Watermelon’ to...
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...
'This project is a series of analog photographs that I’ve taken on some of my moments in Ireland. I have merged them with objects that I owned growing up, things...
Mythologies by Petra Palkovacsova is a reference to the recent trends in publishing; rewritings of classical myths. Although the collection does not focus on mythology, it deals with fairy tale...
Eyes Open: 23 Photography Projects for Curious Kids is compiled by Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas. Eyes Open is a sourcebook of photography ideas for kids—to engage with the world through...
The Early Bird Catches the Worm is a hand-bound risograph zine by An Gee Chan, a fine artist from Royal College of Art / Fine Art Printmaking. Chan's unique, simplistic illustration style is...
Project Cleansweep takes its name from a Ministry of Defence (MoD) report called Operation Cleansweep issued in 2011,identifying sites in the UK where tens of thousands of tonnes of mustard...
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England and was set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while...
this is no longer entertainment is formed entirely out of untreated anonymous or pseudonymous text found in the open comments sections of media websites and other digital platforms. It was composed...
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...
For too long, artists have been told that they can't have both motherhood and a successful career. In this polemical volume, critic and campaigner Hettie Judah argues that a paradigm...
To Be Determined: Photography and the Future is a book with a radical proposal: the photograph is as much an object of the future as it is of the past. Exploring...
The paradox of utopia, as good-place but also no-place was the starting point for McCoy's project The Radiant City. The utopia is an ideal creation of the mind yet it...
