Plays & Poetry

Irish American poet Julie O'Callaghan's first book since Tell Me This Is Normal: New & Selected Poems. Her new poems have evolved from early monologues, written in American demotic, to poems of heartache on the death of her husband, the poet Dennis O'Driscoll. But even in these harrowing poems she never loses her ear for absurdities of modern life.

This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes explaining difficult words and references.

This volume contains the three plays commonly recognized as the height of O'Casey's achievement as a playwright. His tragi-comedy has relevance to the violent politics in the North and the post-nationalist bewilderments in the Republic.

For Peter Levi, Professor of Poetry at Oxford, it was ‘the greatest poem written in these islands in the whole eighteenth century’.

Catherine O'Connor, Education Consultant and Author, draws on lifes experience unravelling the journey of grief in poetic form. This book is for anyone, young or old, who has lost a loved one. Reflective and profound. She lives in Dublin, Ireland. Catherine O'Connor tells the story of grief in poetic form. A moving and honest reflection of the desolation, isolation, and emotional consequences of loss and grief. It brings light and hope to the heart.

Love is the central force in Birdie, a collection of 16 flash fictions that sing with the voices of women loving, losing, learning. The characters here find strength, despite the sorrows of death & deceit: a ghost-child returns to Massachusetts to comfort her grieving mother; a Spanish orange tycoon's daughter regrets her mother's terrible choices.