Plays & Poetry

Cnuasach Filíochta le Julie Breathnach-Banwait. A collection of poetry by Julie Breathnach-Banwait.

Poetry collection by Julie Breathnach-Banwait.

Dráma scríofa ag Deirdre Brennan. A drama written by Deirdre Brennan.

In this contemporary drama, five women go to a house party for a cosmetics sale. The women soon learn the cosmetic manufacturer has a special formula laid out for the evening, which they insist on being followed. Dissatisfied with the formula, the women break the rules with consequences they couldn't have imagined.

Deirdre Brennan was born in Dublin in 1934 and brought up in Tipperary, she now lives in Carlow.

Poetry. Beautiful and disturbing by turns, these reflections on Ireland and Mexico's shared colonial past invoke topographies both real and imagined, where 'things in the ground have a tendency to grow.' Let the Dead reminds us of the power of art to shape our perception of history, and of the artist's responsibility in a time of violence.

'Accidental poet' Jan Brierton returns with a brand-new book EVERYBODY IS A POEM. Taking its name from her popular podcast, EVERYBODY IS A POEM is a compact collection of poems about love, loss, aging, the mental load, menopause and everything in between.

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’.

A beautiful collection of poems from the powerfully talented and much-loved Bronte sisters. 'Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel' Charlotte Bronte

Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This book features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.