O'Mahony's Booksellers Tralee

10/09/2026

From Ariel Lawhon, the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River, comes an epic piece of historical fiction: The Pirate Queen.

Bringing sixteenth-century Ireland vividly to life, Lawhon chronicles the fierce, untamed true story of Grace O’Malley (Gráinne Mhaol) chieftain, sea captain, and legendary folk heroine who dared to defy the Elizabethan empire.
Sweeping, action-packed, and beautifully researched, this is masterclass historical storytelling at its finest.

In store now!

10/09/2026

A grandmother's childhood advice "A person's life is determined by how they use 3,000 Yen" shapes three generations of women navigating love, career, and family.
It explores the quiet anxieties of modern life, showing how small, everyday financial choices reflect our values, relationship struggles, and personal goals.
A warm, charming, and relatable piece of Japanese "healing fiction" for readers who enjoy cozy, character-driven family stories.

10/09/2026

Say goodbye to endless washing up! One Pan Wins by Neven Maguire is packed with effortless, delicious meals made entirely in a single pan...the ultimate game changer for busy weeknights.
WeekendReads

10/09/2026

Fresh Staff Recommendations
Discover a captivating mix of brand-new fiction and gripping mysteries now featured on our store displays. From Kate Atkinson’s signed release Our Noble Selves to Richard Osman’s latest mystery We Chase Shadows, there is a story for every type of reader. Pick up these standout titles today to find your next favorite weekend read.

08/09/2026

Whether you are pairing them alongside your current contemporary reads or rediscovering timeless masterpieces, stories like John Steinbeck’s East of Eden and Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility prove why great literature endures generation after generation.
Pop in-store to explore our great range of classic editions and find your next unforgettable read.

08/09/2026

Masterpieces of Modern Irish Literature

Colm Tóibín’s The Bridge captures a delicate, atmospheric portrait of grief and changing times as a new structure threatens to upend a remote Pyrenean community.
Sebastian Barry’s The Newer World delivers an epic, visceral exploration of survival and identity following the turmoil of post-Civil War America.
Both acclaimed authors demonstrate why contemporary Irish writing continues to captivate readers around the globe with its emotional depth and precise storytelling.
These stunning new releases stand as essential reads for anyone who treasures exceptional prose. Visit us in-store to pick up your copy of these compelling works!

08/09/2026

A captivating look at art, identity, and modern life.
Rachel Cusk delivers a striking, thought-provoking narrative that delves into human relationships, creative impulse, and selfhood. Her precise prose dissects everyday interactions to reveal the quiet tensions underneath. It is an essential, compelling read for lovers of contemporary literary fiction

05/09/2026

And its available O'Mahony's Booksellers Tralee

“Heavy as the subject is, the novel is full of healing drawn from the land, and here the author’s own passions and convictions come through. The loss of biodiversity upsets her deeply, and when asked if readers take one thing from MITHIM, she hopes it is An Cailleach, the mother goddess, and what she represents.” -Grapevine West Cork

Meet the bould MITHIM — the Irish woman history forgot.

Fierce, lyrical and steeped in Irish mythology, the Celtic tree calendar and the forgotten wisdom of the Gaelic healing women, MITHIM gives voice to a noblewoman who refused to disappear quietly into the wreckage of conquest — who carried her people’s knowledge into the dark, and who will risk everything to find out who survived.

Available in all good bookshops 📚

02/09/2026

Reds tells the global history of communism, going beyond the turmoil of the 20th century, and exploring communist ideas, movements, and regimes. It starts in antiquity, not in 1917. It centres not just on the obvious leaders and thinkers but asks how the idealism of millions of working-class activists could lead to their acquiescence in mass murder, repression and social atomisation. A fact whose legacy - unfortunately - is alive and kicking in both Russia and China today.

Paul Mason's startling new book will argue that the desire to live without hierarchy and property is an impulse deeply rooted in our human nature. Reds traces the history of communist ideas through revolts in the ancient and medieval worlds, and chronicles the rise of 19th century anti-capitalist movements. Using first hand testimonies of both the perpetrators and the victims, Mason gives a new and terrifying account of how the 20th century experiment in communism turned into a totalitarian nightmare. But, he argues, the story is not over. Western democracies are stagnant and lacking self-belief. Looming climate chaos demands radical economic answers. Millions of people in the global south see China's offer of authoritarian, state-led development model as a viable alternative. And among the Western left, new forms of techno-egalitarianism vie with right-wing libertarianism in the battle over the digital future.

Reds will be a major analysis as we head into a dangerous new world order where China and Russia threaten major change to the world's democracies.

02/09/2026

There's only one idea more foolish than dividing Ireland – and that's trying to put it back together again. Meet Fiach O'Bric: career diplomat, recent widower, and a man looking forward to a peaceful retirement. But just when he thinks he's out, he is strong-armed into taking over a shadowy top-secret department tasked with preparing for a United Ireland - a job so surreal it makes his last posting, in Beijing, seem like a Buddhist retreat.

Running the Department with Responsibility for Making Arrangements for the Unification of Ireland, an outfit quietly failing since 1958, Fiach finds himself managing a team of oddballs, timeservers, and a die-hard nationalist from Dundalk. And he spends his days refereeing rows about everything everyone has failed to agree for about 800 years, as well as absurd new suggestions – like conjuring a capital city that nobody actually wants. In Westmeath.

Nothing is too crazy to be proposed, nor too sensible to be rejected. Fiach can feel the hand of history on his shoulder. He suspects it may soon throttle him.

Yet, against his better judgement - and all available evidence - a dangerous thought takes hold. What if he could be the one to do what Tone, Pearse and centuries of Irish martyrs failed to do: make Ireland one, and somehow not die in the process. Dream on, Fiach.

---‘Our nation's greatest satirist' Irish Times‘One of the funniest writers in the country' RTÉ Radio 1