"Published in 2007, Alabama Chrome is a continuation of the Douglas Hyde Gallery's series of books that record the Gallery's exhibition programme. In this book, the exhibitions are contextualized by a series of commissioned essays about contemporary visual culture in Ireland.

This substantial publication is introduced by a set of photographs of Dublin and its environs by Eva Vermandel. These photographs are followed by texts: "Get Rich or Die Tryin': Why rap stars can't spell and property developers don't need to" by Luke Clancy, "Development is fast but architecture is slow: Architecture in the context of an emerging Irish Visual Landscape," by Dermot Boyd, "Parallel Worlds: Contemporary Irish Film Cultures" by Maeve Connolly and "Subjective Affinities: Notes on Recent Art from Ireland," by Declan Long. The book also contains an image from each of the Gallery's exhibitions between 2004 - 2006, and an afterword by John Hutchinson." -- publisher's statement