Arlen House

Mary Hayden was a prominent and persistent Irish feminist whose influence ranged over many decades, a power-broker in the university world, and a consistent activist for the underprivileged. Although a nationalist for most of her career, in her hierarchy of values nationalism always took second place to the cause of equality for women.

The artist Frances Georgiana Chenevix Trench, better known as Cesca, kept a detailed diary of her involvement in the nationalist movement as a member of Cumann na mBan, as well as a personal account of her presence in the Howth gun-running incident and the events of Easter Week 1916.

Kate Cullen's riveting account of the close-knit life of Protestant Ireland, a society absorbed in its own triumphs and misfortunes, in its religion and fashions, and yet conscious that history was being made. During the 1840s she lived in Dublin and visited Sligo, Donegal and Leitrim. She witnessed the Famine, though was cushioned from it.

Described by Yeats as 'the nearest ... they have to a true poet' Mitchell (1866-1926) rebelled against privileged society and the Protestant Church. Dublin from the Easter Rising, the signing of the Treaty and the Civil War is seen through her eyes. Objective despite her republican views, she lampooned contemporary politics and the literary world.

Sheds light not only on Helena Molony but on the many causes and characters she worked with during her long public career working as an Abbey Theatre actor, fighting in the 1916 Easter Rising, and as a leading trade unionist.

In Ger Reidy's debut short story collection, he offers a series of powerful, chiseled tales by turns funny, bleak, and compassionate. The recipient of several national literary competitions, Reidy has also been awarded residencies sponsored by the Irish Arts Council and Mayo County Council.

A debut play by young Irish writer and arts manager Mark Richardson, who is based between Dublin and New York City. Set in a church in rural County Cork, this humorous play addresses themes of hypocrisy, corruption, murder, BDSM, sexualities, and gender identity.

Ceremonial death is the focus of a major rite of passage leading the individual from the world of the known to that of the unknown. This book describes funerary traditions, superstitions, death, and wake and burial customs in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland. The role of the community and the centrality of women in death rituals are highlighted.