A Belgian artist’s grá for Achill Island; ideas and the country house; the Celtic revival; an Anglo-Irish aristocrat’s memoirs

If his topics were strange, then his life in Paris was unconventional in the extreme

Paul Clements, whose book about living in a cottage in the woods had a gestation of more than three decades, reflects on other slow-burn books that became travel and nature writing classics

The novelist developed lifelong friendships with illustrious figures in the literary world

This collection, edited by John Hatt, brings together 36 of the English writer’s witty, observant travelogues

Paul Mulligan’s alphabetical glossary, running from Abbey to Zincography, uncovers the multi-layered aura of ancient places

Rich in variety, townland names are markers of tradition and belonging, reflecting historical events or landscape features

Paul Clements spent a year living in a cottage on the grounds of Montalto Estate in Co Down

New works by Kevin Crangle, Brendan McCarthy, Martin Quinn, Thomas Carroll, Rod Smith and more

Erudite and entertaining writer takes reader on journey with rich narrative tapestry of history, music and anecdote

Books on Ireland’s built heritage from Robert O’Byrne, Peter Harbison, Michael Lunt, Susan Roundtree, Ian Hannigan and Andrew Ziminski

Histories of the United Irishmen, Elizabeth Bown and George Egerton, Donegal visionary John Gwyn, Abbey of Carryke in Co Down, and songs of Clare

The Reverend Psychopath: Suffer Little Children, Terror, Tears and Tragedy: The Mount Cashells and the Notorious Divorce Case of 1876, and Under the Metal Man: Sligo in Yeats

Richard Gwyn blends memoir, cultural travel and political history

A tasty appetiser of the OSI’s primordial days that may perhaps lead to a wider banquet