Plays & Poetry

After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human spirit.

Distance is Ron Carey’s debut collection of poetry and announces him as a poet of honesty, skill and directness.

In this new poetry collection, Songs for Older Life, Ron Carey has undertaken to celebrate some creative individuals who blossomed in the afternoons, twilights and late evenings of their lives. Some of these are very famous, others are not so well known. But within these pages you will discover in their stories an endless source of encouragement and want to find out more about them.

Eamon Carr’s latest poetry collection, Foundation Song, showcases his lyrical flair, the influence of classic Gaelic verse, his great sense of rhythm and, most of all, his sensitivity to the suffering of the dispossessed, the homeless, the oppressed in a time of war and displacement. Yet there is still hope and faith in the enduring power of love and friendship. This is a book of vivid dreams, startling aislingí.’ — Hugh McFadden

A sinister night. Evil and edge in the air. What are they celebrating? Clytemnestra's world is torn apart when Agamemnon sacrifices their daughter for the sake of war.

Gilgamesh, a mythical king of the Sumerian city state of Uruk, is supposed to have ruled sometime during the first half of the third millennium BC. He is the hero of a Babylonian legend which recounts his exploits in an ultimately unsuccessful quest for immortality.

Gilgamesh, a mythical king of the Sumerian city state of Uruk, is supposed to have ruled sometime during the first half of the third millennium BC. He is the hero of a Babylonian legend which recounts his exploits in an ultimately unsuccessful quest for immortality.

The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting.