New Island Books

Joe Swallow series.

A history of the early years of the Irish police force.

Maeve Brennan adds her voice to those of Joyce and Beckett in her depiction of a certain Dublin in time.

Author Jan Brierton (based in Artane in Dublin), fashion stylist by trade, began writing out of frustration at her work drying up, and the need to juggle being a home-school teacher, playground chaperone, cook, cleaner and everything else, and the desire to be back with the people she loved. She ended up writing a poem the book takes its name from, which was championed by her friend Roisín Ingle in the Irish Times and went ‘viral’.

From Ireland, England, France, Austria, Greece, Turkey and Italy to America and the West Indies, overflowing with historic events, from the French Revolution to the Great Irish Famine, with a cast of the famous and infamous, Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, lived life to the absolute limits.