Irish Book Awards あいりっしゅ・ぶっく・あわーず
Edition 10 (2012)
Winners
13 peopleA mature novel about memory, guilt, and atonement. Through an aging actor’s recollections, it explores the passing of time and the hidden weight of family and desire.
It follows memory and loss through a quiet but forceful voice.
A crime novel set in Ireland’s recession-era housing wastelands. A murder investigation pulls a detective into a case shaped by family strain, economic collapse, and buried personal history.
A murder case opens onto recession, family strain, and buried history.
A scholarly atlas that maps the Irish Famine through geography, statistics, images, and historical commentary. It turns a vast historical catastrophe into a richly documented reference work.
An atlas that maps the Great Irish Famine through history and data.
A candid memoir of Edna O’Brien’s life, from rural Ireland to an international literary career. It follows her growth, her writing, and the personal costs of a remarkable public life.
A candid memoir that traces a life through writing.
A recipe book built around Italian food culture and family cooking. It combines accessible recipes with the idea that good food is part of a slower, more attentive way of living.
A cookbook that brings Italian family cooking into the home kitchen.
A warm ensemble novel about guests gathering at a country house hotel on Ireland’s west coast. Each character brings a private burden, and the novel follows their search for renewal and ease.
A winter gathering becomes a story of renewal and second chances.
A picture book with a dry sense of humor and a gentle message about ownership and friendship. A boy’s certainty that the moose is his slowly gives way to a wider idea of sharing and belonging.
A playful picture book about ownership, sharing, and friendship.
The final volume of Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series, full of magic, action, and high-stakes adventure. Artemis, Holly, Butler, and Mulch face an ending that threatens both their world and themselves.
A fast, magical finale that raises the stakes for the entire series.
A memoir of training, discipline, and the road to Olympic gold. Katie Taylor reflects on boxing, faith, and the pressure of carrying a nation’s hopes.
A boxer’s path to Olympic gold, told in her own words.
A multi-voiced novel about life in Ireland after the financial crash. It traces jobs lost, loyalties strained, and the fragile bonds of a community under pressure.
A chorus of voices captures the damage left by the crash.
A frank political memoir that mixes public life with private memory. Mary O’Rourke writes about family, power, success, disappointment, and the emotional cost of a long career in public life.
A frank memoir of political life and private loss.