Plays & Poetry

11 poems selected by author Liam O Muirthile are translated directly from the French to Irish. Prefaced by an authorial introduction which analyses the importance of Rimbaud's work to the author.

An extensive series of poems which locate surviving local myths in Sliabh Luachra and beyond it in a long legendary history, starting with an imaginative extension of the familiar lore of the fate of the wren.

Début collection, Dublin poet. Poems, real events and stories...

Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood', a harrowing attempt to understand himself and his family.

Features poems on nature and history, including the vanished world of the whaling industry.

Frank Ormsby's seventh collection of poems reflects not only the beauty of the Irish landscape and the sensuous and aesthetic impact of the small farms among which he grew up, but also the continuing violence of the 'Troubles'. Close to the surface of mountain and bogland lie the hidden graves of the 'Disappeared'.

In the newest edition to the Poet's Chair series, Frank Ormsby explores the structuring of his next collection The Tumbling Paddy. In it he extends the range of his most recent poems. He examines middle class life in Northern Ireland and his own experience as editor of a literary magazine and a number of anthologies during the Troubles.

The Buried Breath announces the arrival of a striking new voice and poetic talent. With formal ease and a sharply engaged sense of ethical inquiry, these lucid, lyrical poems delve into art and history, remembered lives and contemporary conflicts, for illumination and insight.

With lyric grace and meditative clarity, Phantom Gang offers a daring dissection of civilizational violence in a variety of contexts – from the intimate atavisms and inequalities of Irish history to the insidious growth of the global Big Tech economy in the present day – alongside deep, sensually delicate explorations of broken love and salvaged memories.

Re-issue of this 60s classic