John F. Deane is the founder of Poetry Ireland, the National Poetry Society, and of its journal The Poetry Ireland Review. He is also founder and first editor of The Dedalus Press. Translated in many languages, he has won many prestigious Irish and international awards for his poetry and in 1996 was elected Secretary General of the European Academy of Poetry. His recent work includes his memoir Give Dust a Tongue published by Columba Press in 2015 and Achill: The Island publishes by Columba Booksin 2018.
Richard Fitzgeralds evocative images of rural life form a narrative thread with the not-so-distant past. His camera focuses on the back roads of the countryside, and records intimate moments of people in their cottages and farms.
This book is a collection of the best of a lifetime of writing by one of Ireland s most prodigious poets and one of the great characters of the Irish arts, Gabriel Fitzmaurice.
This book covers a wide range of topics including how the Irish built New York, why a Cork woman was awarded Israel s highest honour and how the Irish helped create the modern-day horror boom.