Pauline Bewick announced on RTE Television in November 2005 that, having reached the age of seventy, she was planning to donate a vast collection of her paintings to the State. This book catalogues t
In Herbert’s collection, twin sisters share an uneasy reunion in a spa hotel, as secrets bubble up between them; an aging farmer wakes to an empty day, filled only with the sour legacy
Farrelly’s collection introduces us to an intriguing range of 21st century Irish characters. A young woman rents a room in the home of an eccentric photographer; a poet attends a party
In A Century of Progress? Irish Women Reflect, Hayes and Meagher collect a series of essays to survey the position of women in Irish society over the past century. The volume̵
In the author’s seventh collection, Rowley explores myths and legends from Irish history concerning women, including the wooing of Etain, the sorrows of Deirdre, the Women Bards of Connaught, Ir
Between the Leaves is an anthology of new haiku from Ireland, comprising work from over 60 poets, many of whom have won awards in the USA, Canada and Japan.
Liminal Blue, Theodore Deppe’s sixth collection, comprises twelve shorter poems, a lyric essay, and a book-length poem that begins with a swim in the North Atlantic after his father’s deat
First published in Irish in 1918, these seven stories are available in English for the first time. Each story explores the ways in which the 1916 Easter Rising affected the lives of ordinary men and w
In this, the second collection from Limerick poet Mary Coll, her witty poems about love, marriage and family are enhanced with images by visual artist Margaret Lonergan.
In this, her third collection, Geraldine Mitchell’s words spring from a landscape sculpted by harsh Atlantic weather which infiltrates, informs and ultimately illuminates every aspect of her poe
These selected poems (in English and Irish) cover four decades of this acclaimed poet’s work and explore themes including birth and women’s affairs, nature, love and imagination, war, ag
This highly evolved verse novel, inspired by the flamboyancy of Irish artist Pauline Bewick’s art, gives epic treatment to the themes of gender, the body, time and the meaning of myth in this po
A bilingual collection (in English and Irish) from the renowned Kerry poet, exploring themes of living with and coping with the complicated wonders of being bipolar.
In this second collection from the young Galway poet and farmer, themes of birth, personal development and death run through the poems. There is also an autobiographical strand, with poems that spawn
Honest Walls is the debut poetry collection from Dublin-born writer, filmmaker, and actor Luke Morgan. Whether he is imagining a café in liftoff or playing with a skeleton in a science lab, the a
Compiled in honour of pioneering poet Eavan Boland and Catherine Rose, Ireland’s first feminist publisher, Washing Windows? is a wide-ranging and insightful collection of poet