Books

Bob Quinn is the author of several books included The Atlantean Irish: Ireland’s Oriental and Maritime Heritage (2005), Maverick: A Dissident View of Broadcasting Today (2001) and the fictional memoir Smokey Hollow (1991). Links to purchase his books are provided below where available. A new collection, Count Me Out: Selected Writings of Filmmaker Bob Quinn, will be published in 2025.

Count Me Out: Selected Writings of Filmmaker Bob Quinn

A collection of Bob’s writings from the 1960s to the 2020s. Now available to order here.

The Atlantean Irish: Ireland’s Oriental and Maritime Heritage

A 2005 revised and illustrated edition of the original 1986 book Atlantean: Ireland’s North African and Maritime Heritage. Published by the Lilliput Press. Purchase here.

Maverick: A Dissident View of Broadcasting Today

A radical analysis of Irish broadcasting published by Brandon Books in 2001 following Bob’s tenure on the RTÉ Authority in the 1990s. Purchase here.

Sit Down and Be Counted: The Cultural Evolution of a Television Station

The groundbreaking 1969 analysis of Irish broadcasting published by Jack Dowling and Lelia Doolan in 1969 and featuring a chapter by Bob. Purchase here.

Darwin on the Shannon: A Story of Survival

A ‘cli-fi’ (climate fiction) novel published in 2021. Out of print.

Smokey Hollow

A fictional memoir of Bob’s childhood published by the O’Brien Press in 1991. Purchase here.

Conamara: An Tír Aneoil – The Unknown Country

A collection of photographs published by Cló Iar-Chonnacht in 1997. Photography by Bob Quinn / Text by Liam Mac Con Iomaire. Out of print.

The Specific Gravity of Water

A comic fantasy novel published in 2022. Purchase here.

The Accompanist

A novel published in 2006 by Ogma Press, New York. Out of print.