In Poet Alive!, a memoir by Elizabeth O'Toole, we encounter a new Patrick Kavanagh. In 1961, the poet lived with O'Toole and her husband for six months at a crucial point in his life.
A new semi-autobiographical novel by the celebrated Northern Irish poet and playwright. Published posthumously, Hopdance explores the experiences of a young amputee.
Art honours the world, and criticism honours art, even - perhaps especially - when the critic sets out to destroy. The bad review is hardly ever written out of mere spite. In most cases, the motivation is disappointed idealism. Critics are people who love art and who hate to see it traduced. Hence the critic's sempiternal cry: You're doing it wrong. What the critic wants is for you to do it better. In You're Doing It Wrong, Kevin Power explains how he became a critic and what he thinks criticism is.
On the eve of World War Two, the lives of an Irish family in Westmeath are about to be changed for ever. Preston's story spans three generations and taking in the battlefields of Syria and Egypt, a farm in Australia, night sorties over Germany, Lincolnshire air fields and the horror of a Sumatran prison camp.
The Atlantean Irish is a sumptuously illustrated, exciting, intervention in Irish cultural history. What began as a personal quest-narrative becomes a category-dissolving intellectual adventure of universal significance. It is a book whose time has arrived.
Paddy Rossmore: Photography records half a century of the travels made by Lord Rossmore and his companions the Knight of Glin, Desmond FitzGerald, and Mariga Guinness of the Irish Georgian Society. The visual record made by Rossmore provides a unique archive dedicated to preserving the landscape of a bygone era.
Offering an evocation of the period 1945-55, this book celebrates a city and its personalities - Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh, Myles na gCopaleen (Flann O'Brien), as well as 'Pope' O'Mahony, Gainor Crist the original Ginger Man, and others - a remarkable group who were to revitalize post-war literature in Ireland.
The Lilliput Press is proud to reissue this iconic view of Dublin's northside docks area in the 1980s, which comprises Ronan Sheehan's text and over 50 black and white photographs by Brendan Walsh.
Micheal O Gaoithin was born 3 January 1904 on the Great Blasket island, one of the six surviving children of renowned storyteller Peig Sayers and her husband, Padraig 'Flint' O Guithin. This book presents a selection of 55 out of O Gaoithin's paintings and drawings from his collection of 200.