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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...
Stephen Shore’s Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography is an experimental new memoir from one of the world’s most prolific artists — an impressionistic scrapbook that documents the rich 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...
ALLKINDS is a curated selection of artworks created during the COVID-19 lockdown across a wide range of disciplines including photographers, illustrators, filmmakers, designers, sculptors, writers, artists and poets. *All profits...
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...
Why make art? Faced with a capitalist system that has turned art into artwork and creative expression into cut-throat competition, why do so many artists try anyway? In this eye-opening...
The act of translation is concerned with the slippages, peculiarities, and mysteries of language. Particularly with poetry, readers are invited into a whole new world of meaning and possibility, and...
‘Critical Designers’ produced by an increasing number of design schools are prompted to address social, political and environmental issues through their practices. Yet, who can afford to continue such effort...
Situated in the struggle between the greed for riches and love for the natural world, this work centres on humankind’s desire to devastate and destroy for profit. It portrays an...
This CRB edition features Joe Sterling's images of the occupants of Inis Mhic Clonnaith, an incredibly small island off the coast of Galway. In these photos, Sterling preserved the culture...
Youkilis’s continuous archive of human experience reaches across space and time, through his immediate and generous indexing of everyday life. Sam Youkilis has been building a continuous archive of photographic...
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...
Diane di Prima began writing her ‘Letters’ in 1968, conjuring a potent blend of utopian visions, ecological urgency and spiritual insight. By turns a manifesto for breaking free, a manual...
-Suitable for ages 7 and up- It’s an encyclopedic tour around Ireland … it’s an Irelandopedia! Get ready to go on an exciting adventure around Ireland.Unleash your imagination and sense of...
"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...
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...
Menq Enq Mer Sarere (We Are Our Mountains) borrows its name from a film directed by Henrik Malian in 1969. Collages, photographs, poems intertwined seek a new way to think our memory - as something intrinsic...
Jennifer Walshe is an Irish composer, vocalist and artist, and Professor of Composition at the University of Oxford. With a background in experimental music, she has over a decade of experience working...
Exit. Music. Lights. is a publication about theatricality, explored by a range of artists across forms. Designed by Clare Bell, this publication features contributions by visual artists, writers, and theatre-makers,...
Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to catalog the entire career of the Guerrilla Girls from 1985 to present. The Guerrilla girls are a collective...
Note: This is a publication part of the New Irish Works series. Eanna de Freine’s already published book is available here. Tales from Beneath the Arches project is a visual exploration...
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...
An unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs – featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat and a Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson. Most of us...
This CRB edition features Joe Sterling's images of the occupants of Inis Mhic Clonnaith, an incredibly small island off the coast of Galway. In these photos, Sterling preserved the culture...
“The sea water heals me spiritually, physically, and mentally – every day, however cold, I swim – sometimes alone, sometimes with a friend, sometimes with the crew. Nearly always, I...
Drawing from the Well takes us on a personal journey; a pilgrimage from west Wales to Wexford seeking a deeper understanding of ancestry, roots and inheritance. What is passed from...
Emerging from a lifelong relationship with Pieter Bruegel’s sixteenth-century painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, artist Adam Chodzko’s extensive new writing weaves a path through a vast ocean of associative...
Dani is a graduate from the Master’s programme in Photography at London College of Communication (UAL) and their practice of vernacular photography focuses on the queer experience and their work...
Blue Pages is an attempt to materialise what was dematerialised.The project is a group of random animations that were created to be shared digitally, and then later they were turned...
Anime has been influencing cinema, literature, comic books, and video games around the world for decades. Part of what makes anime so popular are the memorable and breathtakingly detailed worlds...
Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where...
Prompted by the sudden junctures the arts and liberal societies found themselves at in 2020, Futures Photography presents RESET: Questioning the Image, the Market and the Role of Representation. Developed...
Shot between 2013 and 2014, If you lived here, you'd be home by now questions the existence and function of Ireland's ghost estates - housing estates that were built throughout...
A cat wanders, perches, and lounges in various spaces around a humble Tokyo apartment. It is perfectly tranquil in its surroundings, simply going about its daily life. In one image,...
Walter Benjamin’s essay of cultural criticism ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ has become a ‘classic’ text, one which resonated through the twentieth century and beyond....
A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids. God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith...
Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths of contemporary architecture No longer does it suffice to judge a building solely by its appearance; it must be measured and certified....
Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really...
In 1964, a Zambian science teacher named Edwuard Makuka decided to train the first African crew to travel to the moon. His plan was to use an aluminium rocket to put...
The Use of Photography recounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive...
Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto starts with what it is not: a socio-economic argument against ageism, celebrating the ‘elderly’ as economically viable. Instead, Simon(e) van Saarloos presents a radical critique...
Archiving Plurality: A Collaborative Process is a research project led by post‑doctoral researcher-in-residence Alessia Cargnelli for NIVAL, the National Irish Visual Arts Library, with the objective of further facilitating access, inclusion...
Exploring the intimate relationship between Hawaiian quilts, post-colonialism and ecological disaster, research curator Marenka Thompson-Odlum traverses Hawai‘i through the Poakalani quilting group and fifteen extraordinary quilts, newly commissioned by Pitt...
This collaborative project between visual artist, Brian Teeling and arts writer, Jennie Taylor explores Crawford Art Gallery’s buildings and its immediate surroundings through a printed publication which is populated by...
A sophomore photobook by Irish photographer Kieran Power.Returning to the place you grew up will always harbour a mixed response, feelings of nostalgia for the days gone by. Faded memories...
'An absolute blockbuster of clear thinking and new angles...the most clear, alliance building, shame removing look at race. Emma is once-in-a generation clever' Caitlin MoranWe need to talk about racial...
'Groundbreaking . . . a scintillating, intellectual investigation into black women and the very serious business of our hair, as it pertains to race, gender, social codes, tradition, culture, cosmology,...
This Is Not a Cookbook uniquely blends memoir with food writing alongside evocative lithographic artwork. The vignettes in the book chronicle Manouchehri’s childhood growing up in Tehran in the '80s...
Few subjects can evoke the entwinement of the corporeal, personal, and political so succinctly as that of hair. Throughout history, hair has been charged with significance and is resonant with...
A little girl really wants to see herplants grow, so she spends her daysoutside, helping them. A little watcher worries though;anything can happen in the garden –does the girl know...
The accompanying book to the video for the Lyon Biennial 2022. Do humans take themselves too seriously? After all, they consider themselves the most intelligent beings on earth. They claim...
A text book of wrappers and label over prints about the current timetable for the Bus Eireann No.7 bus running from Cork to Dublin and vice versa. Published by Coracle PressEdition of...
Yana Wernicke documents with subtle grace the close bonds between two young women and the farm animals that they rescue, love, play with and care for, in a series mixing...
Commissioned by Clare Gormley for TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and edited by Stephen Connolly, The World Was All Before Them features new work by seven writers: Simon Costello, Dane...
Vol 8 of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual arts, along with craft interviews and in-conversation...
This limited edition publication has been produced on the occasion of the 2021 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, curated by Eoin Dara. The publication comprises a small folio of intimate...
A domain of reflection, a zone of imagination, a sphere of cosmic reverie, a field of observation, an empire of fleeting thoughts, a territory of contemplation, a province of desires,...
A guidebook slash notebook of things designers should think about in order for them to know. Design thinking has created divisions in the discipline: either designers are too theory driven...
Making Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women’s lives. It exposes the sexist assumptions on...
Originating as an ancient tribal practice serving as rites of passage, symbols of religious devotion or marks of bravery, tattoo art has slowly grown into an essential fashion item, a...
For her first feature film, The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola commissioned British fashion photographer Corinne Day to join her on set. Renowned for her unadorned, grungy photographs of iconic models...
Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown suggests that unidentifiable things in photographs point towards larger questions about the limits of knowledge. In a world that seems to give up...
In Irrational, artist Francesco Jodice and curator Francesco Zanot dissect the rise of irrationality in modern life and society through an extensive and thought-provoking array of visual case studies. Addressing...
Evictions are one of the most harmful features of the current housing crisis in Ireland, causing a vast amount of hardship and disruption amongst tenants and working class communities. But...
Pages presents the best magazines in the world, and the bookshops in 30 cities where you can find them. It will steer you to creative communities, up-and-coming neighbourhoods, authentic cafes...
‘Our current modus operandi can’t support the kinds of futures we envision for ourselves and those to come. As architects, builders, and citizens, we must urgently rethink our relationship to...
In a series of humorous, wry and deceptively wise reflections, Babak Ganjei presents us with a radical new take on the artists’ manifesto. Examining motivation, inspiration and influence, these deft...
Punk Troubles: Northern Ireland examines the subject of Northern Ireland punk in the context of sectarianism. The book offers a new and unique perspective on The Troubles and the NI punk...
In ‘A Bower for Sisters’ Aisling O’ Rourke sensitively documents the final few months of Our Lady’s Bower Boarding School and Convent in Athlone, County Westmeath in the Republic of...
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...
This publication is a floral fantasy by a visual artist. Anthropomorphising the flower and using the metaphor of a petal being pulled from a flower and floating away is an...
Some art forms have had more of an impact on the language of graphic design than others, but not many have helped contribute the same dynamism, energy and vitality as...
The exposed and elusive soul is the essence of these texts. To relish, little by little, following its music, without trying to understand, but understanding it all. ‘Why bother trying...
The Bright Plain contains two short stories by Michelle Dooley Mahon; ‘The Deacon’ and ‘The Meadow of Women’, in which ritual devotions are placed in contemporary contexts. She writes of...
Netflix and Chill is a new photobook by @now.a.magpie, exploring online dating culture and photography in today’s digital society. This work presents the online experience of Sarah, 23, featuring some of...
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...
Robin Hammond has dedicated his career to documenting human rights and development issues around the world through long-term photographic projects, including the impact of climate change on Pacific Island communities,...
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...
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...
This essay examines the ubiquitous presence of Venus in the archive of Atlantic slavery and wrestles with the impossibility of discovering anything about her that hasn’t already been stated. As...
New York in the 70’s and 80’s was a volatile city, where everything was happening at once. For over two years, Jill Freedman joined two precincts of the NYPD as...
The ‘political voice’ is the subject of the second volume of Sonic Urbanism publications. This volume explores the political voice as a particular sonic phenomenon, asking how and where it...
Following Theatrum Mundi's first colloquium, Crafting a Sonic Urbanism, which took place at the MSH Paris Nord in September 2018, resulted in a brand new publication on Sonic Urbanism. Edited by &beyond, it invites participants...
Off-the-grid from commercial galleries – selling visuals – and canonical institutions – there to support the often static national or regional identities– artists instigate grassroots cultural safe havens in order...
Following the highly influential Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, this collection of essays, interviews and reflections gives new depth to Mark Sealy’s work challenging the legacies of colonial...
Despite decades of postcolonial, feminist, anti-racist and queer activism and theorizing, the art world continues to exclude ‘Other’ artists – those who are women, of colour and LGBTQ. Indeed, the...
DESIGN{H}ERS is a celebration of women in design today. With the amount of progress humankind has made in attitudes and achievements to-date, the time cannot be more apt than now...
‘Feminisms’ (as a plural) is widely used today to draw attention to inequalities and to critique the status quo in limiting women’s roles/ positions/ lives/ potential. Art can offer a...
The Last Gig is a celebration of lasts. It documents the last punk gig in Dublin before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Ireland, the last gig of prominent Irish hardcore punk...
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...
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...
A mixed media exploration of identity, intimacy, shame, and self-expression through poetry, collage and photography. A messy, horny, heartfelt dive into shame, queerness, body image and the strange distance between...
What comes to mind when one thinks of the vivid and exhilarating visual world of the 1970s? Is it attention-grabbing lettering and clashing colours, groovy paisley motifs and floral patterns...
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a story of love and resistance by one of our era's foremost novelists From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms...
Why should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist’s intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political...
A new edition of the seminal classic exploring the fate of migrant workers First published in 1975, this finely wrought investigation remains as urgent as ever, presenting the life of...
The latest FIFTY ONE publication with William Klein, including several images that are presented to the public for the first time. “Today, thanks to the invaluable support of the William Klein...
"I find myself in the dusty basement of an impressive old house, filled with astronomy related antiques and mysterious objects. I am meeting yet another meteorite collector who presents to...
Fifi a Pomeranian-Chihuahua mix, came into the lives of Angelica and Kris a few years ago – small in size, immense in spirit. Taking care of a puppy is taking responsibility...
During a transformative period in Irish history, ‘Who Fears to Speak’ is a project which hones in on the experience of the young people from the republican stronghold areas of...
With a history tracing back to ancient Egypt, cats have not only gained the favour of humans by repelling pests, but have also provided us with companionship and plenty of...
During the past half-century, contemporary art practices, theories and criticism have engaged intently with notions of the postnational. Nonetheless, the presence of the nation-state and nationalisms in art history remain...
Come per magia is an artist's book about OCD., role-playing, and portals of the unconscious. Nan Tarpey Heyneman is a lens-based artist and writer based in Dublin, Ireland. Their work...
To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die is a book-length essay about the essential usefulness of the practice of making photographs. Drawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens and...
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin tells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a...
A Special Area of ConVersation is a publication resulting from an artist residency sited on the Fingal Coast in Co. Dublin in 2019. The residency was part of 'An Urgent Inquiry'...
Failed Images: Photography and its Counter-Practices tries to understand photography in its difference from the reality it shows. It sets as a task to analyse the different ways the photograph transforms...
A founding text of transnational feminism. For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements...
Knowing her friend’s appetite for rough-hewn landscape and the minutia of family networks, Aisling Farinella invited photographer Linda Brownlee to visit her relatives in the Italian village of Gangi. This...
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...
-Suitable for ages 7 and up- Join much-loved wildlife expert Éanna Ní Lamhna as she takes us on a trip through wildlife habitats - from bogs to beaches and woodland...
This book was published by Kevin Kavanagh in association with mscltr- on the occasion of Fancy Situations, 6th - 29th June 2024. 'Hello again, 30 years old now. Fancy Situations 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...
Vol 9 of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual arts, along with craft interviews and in-conversation...
TACTICAL MAGIC publication edited by Kerry Guinan for TULCA 2019. Included in the publication is a specially commissioned essay by Pádraic E. Moore titled: Art and Magick in the 21st...
The purpose of the em dash is wide-ranging —as an appropriation of silence, as acting dissonance, as interruption, as occupying space. This anthology zooms into the pointed use of em dashes...
This zine incorporates 4 years of entries into the artist’s Notes app on their phone. Paired with images from roughly the same period, this zine shows vignettes of overheard conversations,...
How can thoughtfully and intentionally listening to our world inspire our creative practices? What insights can we gain when we delve into the immersive world of sound, which permeates our...
In this edition, contributors listen to the cacophony of human noise to hear the voices of non-human agents. From parrots and pigeons to crystals and electrical substations, the complex depth...
Genuinely Seeking is a compendium of visual art and writing that addresses our notion of time, and critically disturbs our attitude of it in work processes. It is aimed at...
Art and the Rural Imagination features writing by key academics and artists and explores how contemporary art can help to reimagine the rural as a site of contemporary thought and...
In On Photographs, curator and writer David Campany presents an exploration of photography in 120 photographs. Proceeding not by chronology or genre or photographer, Campany's eclectic selection unfolds according to its...
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...
Alex Prager is a photographer and filmmaker whose elaborate sets and complex staging draw on a rich cultural heritage of cinematic style, informed by street photography, to produce work that...
FUTURES is a European photography platform that pools the resources and talent programmes of leading photography institutions across Europe in order to increase the capacity, mobility and visibility of its...
A world without plants is a world without life, both literally and figuratively. Besides forming the very basis of human survival on Earth, they are also an important source of...
For all ages From the mysteries and wonders of the natural world to man-made marvels in science, technology, and innovation, planet Earth is full of fun and fascinating things to...
Em was a sheepdog who never lived far from where she was born in Cahir, County Tipperary. She had a sense of place and a gentleness of temperament, and a...
Zoom Books is a collection of three photo shoots taken by Catherine Walsh through Zoom conference and made into visual art by Pénélope Delaur. Catherine was inspired to collaborate with...
Today, many feel fettered by insomnia, untouchability, and restrictions on movement. Looking for a more holistic approach to bodily and mental health, this book explores architectures and elementary forms of...
It has been said that we live in the golden age of the personal essay. Under the Influence extends the personal/critical essay form in terms of style, structure and approach....
If social activism is to realistically take on ‘the question of power’ it must be carried out from a knowing ‘holistic’ assault on all social spheres of society. This is...
Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now is a timely and explosive book by artist and writer Carmen Winant. An investigation of a genre of photographs Winant calls “instructional”, it...
In an innovative approach, this illuminating guide presents photography as wide-ranging, diverse and accessible, drawing on both famous and lesser-known figures in the history of the medium. Photography specialist David...
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from...
In a world where millions of images are shot at every moment of every day and where fast-paced environments exhaust and stifle creativity, The Mindful Photographer proposes an antidote: slowing down. Through...
Fires burn around the world. Systemic discrimination persists, precarity is increasing, and the modern democratic project faces challenges from all sides. Art writing helps us to understand art which in...
As our everyday lives become increasingly entangled with data technologies, the book addresses the utopian fantasy that surrounds the Cloud, as transcending physical presence or resourcing. By bringing 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...
A History of Head Trauma is an experiment in short story making and presented as part of RHA FUTURES, Series 3, Episode 2. The beginning section of the book was...
Året, København 2018 (The Year, Copenhagen 2018) is a monthly photobook publication featuring contemporary works by Danish photographers engaged in portraying the city of Copenhagen during 2018. Presenting different artists every...
Promise is the story of a school, of lessons on bar stools, pupils and politicians, a rat named Elvis, classes on the green, stifling heat in summer and damp in...
The starting point for this book is Evelyn Hofer’s Dublin: A Portrait, which features an in-depth essay by V. S. Pritchett and photos by Hofer, and enjoyed great popularity upon its original...
‘Dear God, the Parthenon is still broken’ is a photographic vignette by Yorgos Lanthimos. Although created on the set of the film ‘Poor Things’ in Budapest, the book inhabits a...
This catalog has been published on the occasion of Alex Prager's Part One: The Mountain, 2021 and Part Two: Run, 2022 Exhibitions at Lehmann Maupin. It contains photographic work from...
After Architekturfotografie, its latticed step sister Pompei, Pompeii and the xerox-classic Models Bianca Pedrina continues her artistic journey through architectural incongruities.The title Architekturfotografie is intentionally misleading, as the Swiss artist Bianca...
020 - Fredrik Axling is the twentieth in an ongoing Bi-Monthly series publishing the work of emerging photographers. 'For more than 10 years I devoted all my spare time to...
Text of the play No Woman is an Island designed as an art book by Éilís Murphy / Folded Leaf. The play, a performance lecture inspired by woman’s tireless pursuit of alone...
"Dreamer consists of images from my on going project called Street Errands which started in 2016. Street Errands is a series of collaged photographs that merge street scenes from New...
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...
