For a work of non-fiction to qualify under the Artists Exemption scheme, it must be deemed by the Revenue Commissioners to be original, creative and of cultural or artistic merit.
The guidelines define a work as having cultural merit when "its contemplation enhances the quality of individual or social life by virtue of that work's intellectual, spiritual or aesthetic form and content". The guidelines list types of non fiction that can qualify for the scheme, including biographies, belle lettres, autobiographies and literary translations. The guidelines stipulate that academic books used primarily for teaching or lecturing students, and journalistic work, are excluded from the scheme.
AUTHOR TITLE
William Costello A Connacht Man's Ramble
William Scaife From Galaxies to Turbines
Donald Martin Killybegs Then and Now
Joseph Kennedy The Cudahys
Catherine McCann Time-Out in Shekina
Padraig Yeates Lockout - Dublin 13
David Sweetman The Medieval Castles of Ireland
Richard Pine Oscar Wilde - a biography
Patrick J Sammon The Land Commission: A Memoir 1933-1978
John McGurk The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland
Sr Una Agnew The Mystical Imagination of Patrick Kavanagh
Thomas Murray The Young Haymakers
Terence Carruthers Kerry - A Natural History
Kevin Murphy It's a Dad's Life
David Robertson Deeds Not Words
Anna Rackard The Holy Wells of Ireland
Denis Boyle A History of Meath County Council - 1899 - 1999
Albert Byrne Guinness Times
David Fitzpatrick Ireland & The First World War
John Horgan Irish Media - A Critical History since 19122
Dr Angela Bourke The Burning of Bridget Cleary
Phyllis Gaffney Healing Amid the Ruins
William Hayes Newport Co Tipperary - The Town its Courts and Gaols
James Kelly The Thimble Riggers
James Lydon The Making of Ireland
Claudia Kinmonth Irish Country Furniture - 1700-1950
Patricia McCarthy Farmleigh
Tony Clayton-Lea Elvis Costello - A biography
Catherine Kelly Farmleigh
Perry Ogden 7 Reece Mews Francis Bacon's Studio
Paddy O'Sullivan The Lusitania - Unravelling the Mysteries
Maeve Connolly The Glass Eye
Liam Swords In Their Own Words
Terence Dooley The decline of the Big House in Ireland
Susan Stairs Markey Robinson - A Life the Retrospective
Gregory Allen Garda Síochána - 1922 - 1982
Ruth Ann Lawlor William Smith O'Brien Petitions
Seán Magee Records of the National Archives
David Pearson Between the Mountains and the Sea
Seán Ryan The Wild Red Deer of Killarney
Robert O'Byrne Hugh Lane Legacy at the National Gallery of Ireland
Jacqueline Moore Art in State Buildings - 1922 - 1970
Brian Hand Commentaries & Interpretations on Art & Artists
Patrick McAfee Irish Stone Walls
Michael Carroll Valley of the Milk
Patricia O'Neill A Star Far Away
Caroline Pegum Leinster House - 1744 - 2000
Patricia Butler National Concert Hall
Liberato Santoro Talking of Joyce
Dr Gesa Thiessen Theology and Modern Irish Art
Daniel Dowling Waterford Streets Past and Present
Maire Brennan God of Peace
Timothy Brennan Camerawords
Tim Carey Mountjoy - Story of a Prison
Oisín Deery Story of Birr
Fergus Finlay Snakes & Ladders
James Fitzpatrick The Pawnbroker
Herman Geissel The Shady Road to Clane - Archeological
Patrick Geoghegan The Irish Act of Union
Lavina Greacon JG Farrell - The Making of a Writer
Mona Hearn Dublin's Victorian Houses
Emma Keating Art in State Buildings 1922 - 1970
Michael Kennedy Division and Consensus
Dermot Keogh Jews in 20th Century Ireland
Mary Rose Lynch Home to Roost
Maurice Manning Betrayal
David McCullagh A Makeshift Majority
Eamon McElwee From Clare to Here
Daniel Mulhall Ireland at the turn of the Century
Tadgh O'Keeffe Medieval Ireland - An Archaeology
Thomas Pakenham Meetings with Remarkable Trees
Con Power Under the Hammer
Edward Rowley Ronan Keating: Life is a Rollercoaster