New Irish Fiction

2020 Publication. County Donegal, Ireland. 1884. Your island home is threatened with evictions. What would you be willing to do to stop them?

An uplifting book filled with hope, faith and courage, with a message behind every picture, every story, every poem. Kilkenny author Claire Sinnott's debut collection of poetry and prose.

Diminished? Really? Gods don’t hold us, the temples wither, the priests are all in sales but the sun still shines, the oxen low and the winedark sea is still as dark as wine. ‘Peter Sirr draws on the classics — Homer, Catullus, Sappho — to ask if we, in comparison, live in a disenchanted world.

Diminished? Really? Gods don’t hold us, the temples wither, the priests are all in sales but the sun still shines, the oxen low and the winedark sea is still as dark as wine. Peter Sirr draws on the classics — Homer, Catullus, Sappho — to ask if we, in comparison, live in a disenchanted world.

“In the early 1990s, in his volume The Bears And Other Poems, Knute Skinner embarked on an extraordinary poetic project – the elaboration of short poetic fictions. In the intervening years he has become a master of this charged and compelling form. These short poems are exquisitely compressed narratives delineating and exposing lives often within a relational context. The narrators are a diverse bunch: adulterers, deviants, adventurers, lovers, friends, whose utterances and scraps of dialogue frame the foibles, truths, frailties and enduring alliances between characters strewn across a variety of contexts. In some of the poems there is an undisclosed but implied secret that entreats the reader to return, to name what has been conflated and intuitively sussed, and to define the intriguingly elusive and alluring truth of the poem. There are very few books of poetry that you would run back into a burning building to retrieve. Make no mistake, An Upside Down World is one of them.”

Annie Smithson's third novel, Carmen Cavanagh, is for the most part set in 1911 in the wilds of Donegal and in cosmopolitan Dublin, and the story deals largely with the exacting life of district nurses and dispensary doctors where the calls of duty have to be met under the most trying conditions.

If the River is Hidden charts the journey of two writers from the source to the mouth of the Bann, Northern Ireland's longest river. Through a dialogue of prose and poetry the history, landscape and divisions that have come to define the North are explored and challenged.

A deliciously daft comic caper about skullduggery and suspicion at Ireland's second-biggest cat-food manufacturer

Sha'Kert: End of Night is a Science Fiction drama. Greg's fight to save his daughter leads to exile from Earth; Louise faces her fears in an alien wilderness; Henry's decision to leave Earth with his family doesn't go as planned; Menno's obligation to lead the dwindling Amish leads to his missing out on the wonders of this new Eden.

Dermot Somers is an experienced mountaineer and an established broadcaster and author in both Irish and English. Communication on many levels is explored here in is first work of fiction.