New Irish Non-Fiction

Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature. Shall We Go? is her eighth book of poetry, following her Bloodaxe retrospective, Very: New & Selected Poems (2008) and later collection Track (2014).

The first uniformed troops of the National Army appeared on the streets of Dublin in February 1922 as the IRA fractured along the fault lines of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

This book is not merely a guide book, it is much more of a cultural book as it embodies so many factors highlighted in the many different sections for the reader’s benefits. Mainly aimed at foreigners, but its audience spans from the millions of Irish descendants who make up the Diaspora Irish Communities that are scattered all over the world, to the Irish in Ireland, including those who are naturalised citizens, refugees, students, tourists or expatriate, or people who just happens to love Ireland for whatever reason. To them all, I present this book with an Irish blessing ...'May the Road Rise to Meet You!'

Baileys is so much more than a delicious, indulgent drink.

Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants.