About Us

The Wordwell Group, established in 1986, is the publisher of History Ireland, Archaeology Ireland and Books Ireland magazines, alongside Wordwell Books and, as of 2019, Eastwood Books. The group has been at the heart of Irish cultural life for more than three decades, publishing in collaboration with the National Museum of Ireland, the National Library of Ireland, the OPW, the Department of Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, TII, the Decade of Centenaries and the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, together with many of Ireland’s finest authors in the fields of history, heritage and archaeology. Recent awards include winning the 2019 Nilsson Heritage Prize at the Listowel International Festival and being shortlisted for Irish Small Press of the Year at the Bookseller Awards 2019.