Irish non-fiction to look forward to in 2022 - TheJournal.ie

From history to photography.

FOR THOSE OF you who tend to lean towards non-fiction when it comes to your reading habits, 2022 looks like a ripe year indeed.

Here are some of the non-fiction reads to look forward to next year – from history books to photography books. (Our fiction round-up is here.)

Lakes of Cavan by Hu O’Reilly

• The Lilliput Press, January

There is an age-old saying that Cavan has ‘a lake for every day of the year’. Now, for the first time, 365 lakes in the county have been listed and photographed for this book by photographer Hu O’Reilly.

Elizabeth Boyle, Fierce Appetites

• Sandycove, March

Medieval historian Elizabeth Boyle immersed herself in the literature that has been her first love and life’s work for over two decades. Fierce Appetites is the result, where Boyle shares accounts of ancient stories from Ireland and further afield, as well as using historical learning to grapple with the raw and urgent questions she faces. In this book she writes about “grief, addiction, family breakdown, the complexities of motherhood, love and sex, memory, class, education, travel (and staying put) with unflinching honesty, deep compassion and occasional dark humour”, say her publishers.

‘Look Back to Look Forward’: Frank O’Connor’s Complete Translations from the Irish by Frank O’Connor, edited by Gregory A Schirmer

• The Lilliput Press, March

Between the mid-1920s and the mid-1960s, O’Connor published 121 translations that give voice to the full range of the...

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