Columba Press

Specialties

Columba Press is an Irish publisher of religious and spiritually themed books. We also distribute books to the US and Canada.

History

Established in 1985.

In April 1985 we published our first three titles under the newly-​founded imprint, The Columba Press. The three books were Masses with Young People by Donal Neary SJ, Funeral Homilies edited by Liam Swords, and Disturbing the Peace by Eamonn Bredin. Since then we have grown substantially and now publish across a broad range of areas, including pastoral resources, spirituality, theology, the arts, and history. We publish approximately thirty-​five new titles per year and have around 350 books in print. In 2001 we published The Glenstal Book of Prayer. This book has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide and it topped the bestsellers list in Ireland for eighteen weeks! This was followed in 2004 with the very successful Book of Common Prayer for the Church of Ireland, which also, in its various editions, sold over 120,000 copies.