The History of Irish Book Publishing

Tony Farmar (1946–2017) trained in book production with Macmillan UK, after taking a law degree at Oxford. From 1977 he worked in the Irish publishing business, from 1992 as a principal in A. & A. Farmar. During that time he wrote extensively on Irish business and social history, and was a regular contributor to The Bookseller and Books Ireland. He was President of Clé – the Irish Book Publishers’ Association – from 2005 to 2006 and Chair of the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency from 2006 to 2010.



Conor Kostick is an award-winning historian and novelist living in Dublin. Former chair of the Irish Writers Union and the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency, he currently sits on the board of the National Library of Ireland and the advisory board of National Braille Production. He is commissioning editor for Level Up, an imprint of Ockham Publishing