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.
In this seminal work, publisher and author Tony Farmar places the development of Irish publishing in its social and economic context, exploring how the mechanics of the industry, alongside the changing structure of Irish bookselling, have underpinned developments in the trade.
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