Throughout her career, NYU’s Professor of Irish Studies Marion R. Casey has been a prolific researcher, writer and commentator on the Irish experience in America. Her new book, The Green Space, examines “the variety of factors that contributed to remaking the Irish image from downtrodden and despised to universally acclaimed.” The Green Space, Casey writes,…

Singer, songwriter and novelist Larry Kirwin’s electrifying new novel, Rockin’ the Bronx, offers a searing, unfiltered portrait of Irish immigrant life in the Bronx during the early 1980s, with humor, pathos and excitement shining through. By Larry Kirwan Fordham University Press/ 376 pages/ $19.95 paper/ March 2025

This stunning debut novel from the acclaimed young Irish poet Seán Hewitt, is set in a remote village in the north of England. Open Heaven is a wonderfully written novel about desire, yearning and the terror of first love. By Seán Hewitt Alfred A. Knoph/ 210 pages/ $28 cloth/ April 2025

How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers Author Don Gillis was one of Boston’s community organizers who became a trusted senior advisor during Mayor Ray Flynn’s decade in office. In The Battle for Boston, Gillis details how a savvy band of townies and out-of-town activists shifted the political paradigm…

Poet, songwriter, journalist and activist Bill Nevins tackles the world with truth and daring, never flinching from the powers that be, while never surrendering to the notion that “life can be pointless and transient.” He finds deliverance in love, family, community and the power of words. Nevins grew up in New York and New England,…