Plays & Poetry

In this, the second collection from Limerick poet Mary Coll, her witty poems about love, marriage and family are enhanced with images by visual artist Margaret Lonergan.

New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins captures the essence and mystery of dogs in this special collection of poems inspired by our beloved companions, with striking watercolour canine portraits by Pamela Sztybel.

Originally published in 2020. Inside Out is the debut collection of poetry by Tommy Collins where we have the beginnings of poetic sensibility – observing, exploring, testing and seeking to develop an authentic and unique voice. Throughout the work there is a sense of both detachment and participation where the poet is involved in, yet observing from outside – interpreting, shaping and making sense of experience. (from Kieran Bevile)

This is a collection that probes memory and looks at how we use it to construct identity, making our mark as we interact with the human and the natural world.

In a relentless rollercoaster of images McDonagh offers keenly observed commentary from his fourth floor flat, juxtaposing the urban contemporary landscape with the Mayo of his youth. No sacred cows are safe as the absurd and surreal are seamlessly blended.

Formal and yet sensitive, steeped in memory and precise locale, Cathy Conlon’s poetry is a joy to read and to re-read.

Joey Connolly's second collection reinvests the planetary ecological crisis with personal emotional intensity through funny and feverish linguistic invention.

Based loosely on the lives of Chang and Eng Bunker, the nineteenth-century brothers and source of the term 'Siamese twins', this play is the haunting and lyrical story of conjoined twins Pigg and Pegg. It is the first winner of the "Yale Drama Series".