This second volume of James Liddy's essays, selected and introduced by Eamonn Wall, is framed by an intense and enduring attachment to Dublin and love of Irish literature. Meeting Patrick Kavanagh was the singular event that changed James Liddy's life and opened up a new world of writers, social life and cultural exchanges.
This first volume of James Liddy's sparkling essays, selected and introduced by Eamonn Wall, provides unique insights into the work of American writers and Irish writers overseas, and includes first-hand accounts of meeting many of the canonical figures of American poetry.
In this debut collection Orfhlaith Foyle's poetry is adventurous, mysterious, and passionate. Her poems tell of migrant emotions as well as migrant journeys. She was born in Nigeria to Irish parents and is currently based in Galway. She has written Belios, a novel and Revenge, a collection of short fiction and poetry.
A new collection of poetry by one of Ireland's leading voices is a cause for celebration, and in this stunning collection O'Searcaigh demonstrates that he has his finger of the pulse of the modern Gaelic poetic consciousness
Recently appointed as Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, Chapson reveals himself to be a deeply cultured sensualist who communes effortlessly between a pan-Hellenic past and a more offbeat latter-day Milwaukee. Attuned to the ancient, but alert to the present, he, like Cavafy, is a poet of time and desire.
This bilingual collection of essays contains eighteen essays of literary and linguistic interest in Modern Irish, Welsh, Cornish, and other Celtic languages.
Handy and O Conchubhair's collection demonstrates the breadth and depth of Celtic studies as a vibrant, multifaceted, interdisciplinary subject. Combining essays by senior scholars with new and groundbreaking work by emerging scholars, this volume explores current trends and themes in Celtic Studies ranging from literary manuscripts to contemporary literature.
Frederick Robert Higgins (1896-1941) was born in County Mayo. A close friend of Austin Clarke and William Butler Yeats, Higgins was elected a foundation member of the Irish Academy of Letters and in 1935 became a director of the Abbey Theatre. This volume collects the best of Higgins's output from his four poetry collections and the literary magazines in which his poems appeared.
This is the debut Hennessy Award-winning short story collection by Irish writer Eileen Casey. These short fictions are rooted in the quotidian-a supermarket, a travelling salesman, a couple on a beach holiday-but they are full of wisdom, humanity, and sly humour.
The twenty-two stories in this collection explore themes of adult-child relationships, death and violence, and the Irish sense of place. These are essential stories about families and relationships under strain; there is love and betrayal, sickness and passing, humour and rivalry, all told in a mix of adult and child voices, each voice as honest as the last.
This award winning debut collection demonstrates Gallagher's great physical sense of language. The mystery of existence hovers in the echoes of these wonderful quiet poems which combine gifted lyrics with rich images.
Celia de Freine is a poet, playwright and screenwriter who writes in Irish and English. This is a collection of her Irish plays.
This play imagines the time in Brian Merriman's life immediately before he wrote his famous poem The Midnight Court. De Freine introduces readers to characters from his local neighbourhood and explores the ways in which these people and their deeds inspired him to write.
The author explores Brian Merriman's famous poem, The Midnight Court, a classic of Irish literature.
A brilliant collection of short stories about life on the rough side of contemporary Ireland. The stories are based in Galway, Ireland.
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