‘Ireland. This is not a country that could ever have existed.’ In this elegiac memoir of an extraordinary life, Michael Hilliar takes us into a world of jewels and squalor, of great love and great loss, of religion and politics in an island nation. What emerges will surprise.
Bláthanna is a stunning curation of floral short stories in exceptional spaces. Drawing from Irish countryside textures and seasonal blooms, interior rooms & exterior structures, this anthology shows how flower creativity can be inspired and re-imagined.
On the eve of August 5th 1958, in Louisburgh, County Mayo, Mary Stenson told her only son that their farm was soon to be lost. If they could not raise £3,000 before 23rd of December, their link with the land would be broken forever.