A hardback reprint of the classic Irish Pages issue on Seamus Heaney to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death on 30 August 2013. The extraordinary degree to which Heaney was a creative and ethical exemplar, mentor, and generous friend comes through especially powerfully in this book, with its 54 contributors.
A truly outstanding monograph on a key period of Belfast history, through the musical prism of the famous 1792 Harpers' Meeting and the succeeding Irish Harpers Assemblies
This long-awaited selection of essays and reviews from one of Ireland's leading critics and essayists brings together a wealth of reflection, observation and astute literary comment. It ranges in time from William Carleton to Edna O'Brien, and in subject matter from recent Irish poetry to ghosts, children's books and MI5.
John F. Deane and James Harpur have devoted their lives to writing about the mysteries of existence and the divine. This selection of their poems displays how each poet has probed and described his journey in search of ultimate truth.