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Mayo Books Press publishes books which contain the essence of the place for which the press is named. Books on wildness, community, heritage, resilience, conservation, culture, humour, and an inclination towards a spot of rule breaking.

Insect Portraits is a captivating collection of portrait-style photographs that reveals the remarkable ‘personalities’ of Irish insects. Quirky and fascinating prose accompanies each portrait.
The Irish Times on Insect Portraits by Lisa Clancy (Mayo Books, 2025) 
An utterly brilliant and visual-physical-poetical exploration of the fate and mortal beauty of the whale in Irish waters. All the pity and majesty of their existence, and ours, is laid bare in Alice Kinsella’s dreamlike work which, like Melville’s Moby-Dick before it, defies all description and arouses the deepest empathy.
Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan or, the Whale on Wake of the Whale by Alice Kinsella and Daniel Wade (Mayo Books, 2024)
Anybody who has ever spent time in dreary Limerick Junction will appreciate one of the funnier Irish language descriptions of a vagina contained in new book Focail na mBan... just one of several entertaining and surprising moments in this unique collection of Irish language words for women’s genitalia, reproductive organs, menstrual cycles and sex lives.
The Irish Times on Focail na mBan by Manchán Magan (Mayo Books 2023)

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