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Irish Authors & Illustrators

A selection of books by Irish authors and Irish illustrators, spanning a range of genres.
A black and white photo of Heaney looking over the back of his chair, with bookshelves behind him. His name is across the top in yellow and the title is across the bottom in white.

100 Poems
A light blue cover with an outline of Ireland in green in the centre. It is covered in cartoon images associated with Ireland such as an Irish dancer, harp and swan. The title is in red in a cloud in the centre.

123 Ireland!
A khaki green back ground with an illustration of a small black owl with big eyes in the bottom half. The top half is the title in white block letters that look hand drawn.

A Bit Lost Board Book
The title is in thin white and green letters inside a black circle, on a very dark grey page.

A Brilliant Void
A photo of a girl, from shoulder to knee, sitting in the back of a car with a school bag beside her, holding a bottle of fizzy drink in her lap. The title is across the top in thick white letters and the author at the bottom.

A Crooked Tree
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A black cover with a map of Ireland in the centre, filled in with different words in white, red and grey. The title is across the top in red letters.

A Dictionary of Hiberno-English
A sage green background with an illustration of a park taking up most of the page. At the front a little girl in a red hooded coat carries a basket and is followed by a cat. The title is written in a scroll at the top.

A Dublin Fairy Tale
Cartoon illustration of colourful little people on a tree branch surrounded by leaves. The title is in stylised green letters on the top half.

A Field Guide to Leaflings
A dark painting of flowers in dull yellow, red and green. In the centre, imposed over the picture is the title in white letters.

A Ghost in the Throat
A Ghost in the Throat (New Edition)

A Ghost in the Throat (New Edition)
A cartoon illustration of a ship on the water at night. The title of the book is written down and across the sails in different shape and coloured flags.

A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea
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A cartoon white cloud and sun on a blue background. The title is inside the cloud in black hand drawn letters.

A Short, Hopeful Guide to Climate Change
A cartoon illustration of a purple bus with a vampire, various animals, and a skeleton driver. The title is across the top in orange and white.

A Spooktacular Place To Be
A cartoon illustration of a smiley face Ireland, wearing a scarf, on a blue background. The title is across the top in white.

ABC Ireland!
A cover with a splatter of red, orange and cream paint with an apple cut out in the centre. In the apple is a black and white photo of a woman’s cheek, lips and nose. The title is in painted capital letters in pink and black at the bottom, and the author in black at the top.

Acts of Desperation
A yellow background with an illustration of a green apple in the centre. The title is across the top in white lower case letters.

Aibítir
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Illustrations of various Irish sports stars against an orange background. The title is in yellow painted style letters.

Aim High
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Amethyst Country

Amethyst Country
A dark blue cover with the title in hand drawn style letters in red and blue. A cartoon of an astronaut is in the top right.

An Alphabet
An illustration of a woman in a red dress with large, intricate pink-red butterfly wings, against a grey background. The title is across the top in white.

An Féileacán agus an Rí
A close up painting of a woman holding a green umbrella. The title is in white in the top left.

An Irish Woman's Book of Days
A photograph of a young girl wearing a flat cap sitting on an old man’s lap, both smiling. Green fields and the sea stretches out behind them. The author is across the top and title across the bottom, both in letters that look hand written.

Anseo
A black and white photo of a smiling woman in the sea. The top half is white with the title and author in red and grey letters.

Are You Somebody?
A photo of a lake on a cloudy day. In the centre of the lake is a small island covered in green trees. The title is across the top in large, thin, red capital letters. Around the edges of the cover are grey silhouettes of branches.

Arise and Go
A photo of a man on a ladder painting a large image of an old fashion place taking off with industrial style buildings behind it and workers looking on. A white band in the centre has the title in dark teal and subtitle in red.

Art, Ireland & the Irish Diaspora
A dark red cover with the title and author in gold capital letters.

Asylum Archive
A photograph from above of a ragged cliff jutting into the sea, with clouds turning pink at sunset. The title is across the top in white, thin capital letters.

Atlantic Light
A green background with white illustrators around the edges of Irish things such as sheep, Irish dancers, and St. Patrick. The title is in the middle with ‘Irish’ in big, yellow letters in the centre.

Be an Irish Explorer
Be Wild, Little One

Be Wild, Little One
A blue cover with yellow gaps showing drawings of people. Author and title take up most of the space in thin, black capitals.

Beautiful World, Where Are You