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🥁 Another Cover Reveal!

New Zealand's Irish Revolution
edited by Lisa Marr and Rory Sweetman

This fresh and thought-provoking collection offers original New Zealand perspectives on the Irish Revolution from the third Home Rule crisis to the establishment of the Irish Free State. Interrogating rare and previously untouched primary sources, the contributors capture an array of New Zealand outlooks on the political, social, and cultural evolution of Ireland from 1912 to 1923.

⏰Coming to bookshops nationwide in September

🔗Preorder at the link in our bio by @ucdpress

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📣 COVER REVEAL

Mary and Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream

The first joint biography of Mary and Padraic Colum by Margaret Kelleher @margaret_kelleher12 , the author of The Maamtrasna Murders.

Engagingly written, this book recovers the story of this literary couple whose five-decade life together became a chronicle of the cultural and political foment of early twentieth-century Ireland, James Joyce’s émigré circle in 1930s Paris, and the hotbed of intellectual and literary life of New York from World War I to the 1960s.

It is a story of lives and dreams that deserves to be heard and celebrated.

✨ Coming to bookstores near you this September!

🔗 Preorder at the link in our bio by @ucdpress

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🔔 Coming this autumn!

Marian Keyes and the Politics of Commercial Fiction
by Maria Butler

Marian Keyes is one of Ireland’s most important fiction authors but is often not celebrated as such. Keyes’ novels draw on the author’s trademark charm, wit, and pathos, yet her girly packaging and light-hearted marketing resulted in far too little critical attention and celebration compared to her literary contemporaries.

Focusing on her depiction of three significant Irish loci of shame: addiction, depression, and abortion, Maria Butler draws upon Keyes’ novels, essays, interviews, and online posts to demonstrate how her writings serve as a counterpoint to culturally prevalent, stigmatising depictions of people coping with addiction and mental illness. This groundbreaking study seeks to challenge the existing narrative on Keyes and opens a window to her extraordinary writings for future readers.

🔗 Preorder the book at the link in our bio

#CoverReveal #MarianKeyes #IrishAuthors #IrishLiterature #BookAnnouncement by @ucdpress

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🎥 Watch two short interviews with UCD Press author Maria Butler as she discusses her new book, Marian Keyes and the Politics of Commercial Fiction, with the Irish Independent.

Marian Keyes is one of Ireland’s most important fiction writers but is often not celebrated as such. This groundbreaking study seeks to challenge the existing narrative on Keyes and open a window to her extraordinary writings for future readers. The book also emphasises the literary, political, and societal importance of feminine-coded commercial literature.

🔗 Both interviews at the link in our bio

Order a copy of Marian Keyes and the Politics of Commercial Fiction at www.ucdpress.ie by @ucdpress

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A warm reception for both Mary and Padraic Colum at Granard Community Library Longford as part of the 'Padraic Colum Gathering' hosted annually in his home county.

Beautiful readings, discussions and music to honour both Mary and Padraic's rich legacies.

Special thanks to wonderful team at Glanard Library, guest speaker Chair of Poetry Vona Groarke and our author Margaret Kelleher 👏👏

@margaret_kelleher12 @universitycollegedublin @longfordlibrary by @ucdpress

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Frankfurt Buchmesse was wonderful to experience. Many thanks to all the publishing houses that shared, pitched and listened through a number of very fruitful discussions. We will continue the dialogue once we return.

The future of the printed book - in many languages - is bright 🌞

📚🇩🇪👌🙌 by @ucdpress

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Frankfurt Book Fair 🇩🇪 here we come!

A first of many to come for UCD Press we hope. Looking forward to learning and connecting 📚📚📚

PM us to connect 🙌

@buchmesse @universitycollegedublin @publishing_ireland @literatureireland by @ucdpress

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Very much looking forward to the Padraic Colum Gathering this Saturday 10th October in Granard Community Library, Longford.

Author Margaret Kelleher will be speaking & her book on Mary and Padraic Colum will be on sale all day.

Copies of Lives and the Dream are available in bookshops nationwide by @ucdpress

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All welcome to the Dublin launch of New Zealand’s Irish Revolution edited by Lisa Marr and Rory Sweetman

⏰ 5pm to 6.30pm sharp
🗓️ Tuesday, 20 October 2026
📍 New Zealand Embassy, Level 3, 2–4 Merrion Row, Dublin, D02 YN56
👥 RSVP at ucdpress@ucd.ie

New Zealand’s Irish Revolution examines the dominion’s relationship with Ireland, discussing notions of ‘home’, diaspora, identity, and belonging, and reveals new details about the lives and ideas of Irish residents and their descendants. It is a fresh and thought-provoking collection that will enhance our understanding of the Irish Revolution and its broader international impact through an Antipodean lens.

🔗 Preorder at www.ucdpress.ie taken in New Zealand Embassy in Ireland by @ucdpress

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In War to the Death! The Waterford Farm Strikes of 1922 and 1923, leading labour historian Emmet O’Connor delves into an intense local movement during a time of constitutional upheaval in Ireland.

Between August 1921 and December 1923 boom yielded to slump and employers struggled to cut wages. Buoyed by four years of steady growth and inspired by revolution at home and abroad, the Irish Trade Union Congress pledged to ‘hold the harvest’ of wage gains.

Two of the biggest conflicts occurred in Waterford, where farm labourers won a headline victory in resisting reductions in 1922. Under the astute leadership of Sir John Keane, and buttressed by the restoration of stable government, the Waterford Farmers’ Association returned to the fray in 1923, determined not only to slash wages, but to smash trade unionism on the land, and put an end to Irish ‘Bolshevism’. The long-suffering labourers were equally resolved to defend their far from generous living standards and had a redoubtable champion in ITGWU organiser James ‘Dongaree’ Baird. What followed was a miniature civil war, with clashes of ‘Red Guards’ and ‘White Guards’.

‘An engaging and essential read for local historians, academics, labour history enthusiasts, and the general reader.’

This is Emmet O’Connor’s 7th book with UCD Press.

Out 15th October

Preorder at www.ucdpress.ie at the link in our bio by @ucdpress

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Our thanks to RTÉ Culture @rte_culture for sharing the extract from Marian Keyes and the Politics of Commercial Fiction, the new book by UCD Press author Dr. Maria Butler @airamreltub

📰 Read the full piece at the link in our bio

⏰ Marian Keyes and the Politics of Commercial Fiction by Maria Butler is coming next week! Preorder your copy at ucdpress.ie by @ucdpress

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‘Margaret Kelleher brings the couple back into view, exploring their marriage, their literary careers, and complicated relationship with Ireland and America’

🎙️ Tune in to author Margaret Kelleher @margaret_kelleher12 on Arena @rte_arena (@rteradio1 )!

In this interview, Margaret Kelleher discusses her new book Mary and Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream 📘

Listen back to hear her wish to send readers back to the couple’s original works - particularly those of Mary Colum, who has been forgotten and underestimated - and her reflections on the digital age and the future of biography.

🎧 Link in our bio

Available in bookshops nationwide and at ucdpress.ie by @ucdpress

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