A poetic homage to plants tracks the life cycles of herbaceous plants through each season to encourage an appreciation for the way they can nourish the spirit and reveal humans' disruptive influence o
These essays by leading scholars assess and interpret developments from 1990 onwards in nineteenth-century Irish studies, from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. The aim is to provide an in-de
Selima Hill's poetry has been called wanton, wildly imaginative, tender, intelligent, dangerous, defiant, subversive and startling. All these qualities are strongly present throughout Gloria, a compre
Connie Bensley's poems are sharply satirical, often poking fun at social pretence and suburban pretension. They present a comedy of manners in which mismatched characters are bounced between love, dea
Karlsen is a down-on-his-luck private investigator looking for work. When the only job on offer is a contract killing, Karlsen agrees despite his lack of experience. Things don't go to plan and it see
Profiles three siblings, brutal older brother Bruno, middle child Susie, and youngest child Penny "Peanut," as their relationships change for the better the summer that Bruno, nine, nearly drowns then
Out of at least fifteen years' experience of helping parish cantors, Margaret Daly has prepared this collection of responsorial psalms for all the Sundays and solemnities of the three-year cycle. She
David Constantine's three lectures have to do with the chief end and means of poetry: a lively and effective language. In the first, Translation Is Good For You, drawing mainly on the life, letters an
Captures the unique spirit of these sites through a series of color photographs. Holy wells are places of popular religious devotion. At many of them the waters are believed to have healing powers; so
Alice Taylor takes us through her home, reflecting back on the routine of her family life growing up in rural Ireland in the 1950s - a time when food was home-baked and everything was reused. An uplif
In Irish Interior: Keeping Faith with the Past in Gaelic Prose, 1940-1951 (2010), O'Leary (English, Boston College) looked at people in the Gaelic language movement who preferred the old world to the
