Irish Craft Portfolio: Critical Selection 2013-2014 publication was launched at the opening of Future Beauty? in the National Craft Gallery on 25th January. The publication features 26 makers who were selected by an international expert panel as being at the leading edge of contemporary craft in a world-class context. The publication is currently available for sale in the National Craft Gallery, National Gallery of Ireland and IMMA. You can also buy online via IMMA here. Price: €20.

Hands On: The Art of Crafting in Ireland by Sylvia Thompson details the history of forty eclectic crafts, from basket making to woodturning, and provides concise information on where to see them, where to learn them and what’s involved. See below for CCoI discount.

This 76 page book focuses mainly on non functional work and has sections on materials, tradition and innovation, sources of inspiration and methods of making. There is also a gallery section with colour images.

Carol Feller's book brings aran knitting into the 21st century with 18 knitting patterns based on yarns from the three remaining Irish woollen Mills: Kerry Woolen Mills, Cushendale Woollen Mills and Donegal Yarns. The book also gives a history of aran knitting as well as profiles on the three mills and features two independent dye companies: Dublin Dye Company and Hedgehog Fibres.

Green Wood Chairs is both an inspirational and practical book featuring the author's naturally graceful work and projects. The book projects, inspired by Shaker design and the magic of the West Cork landscape, range from stools and small tables to a full size rocking chair, using natural branch wood and stems, which you can gather yourself and make using basic tools.

Covering over 40 crafts, from woodcarvers, thatchers, goldsmiths and potters to glassblowers of the famous Waterford crystal, 'crios' weavers from the Aran Islands, and the makers of harps, quilts, baskets and curraghs, drystone walls and Irish lace.

The “West Cork Inspires” book tells the story of how the craft movement was started in West Cork in the early 1960s and how it impacted on craft production in the whole of Ireland. 22 craftspeople are profiled in the book.