In Winter Bayou, Grace journeys through the past, from the heady rush of teenage love to a marriage 'ripped apart too ... shredded and pushed beyond our boundaries' - her meditations forming a perfectly poised novella as lyrically tender as it is viscerally sensuous.
Revealed for the first time here is the correspondence that Percy French, one of Ireland's most influential songwriters, wrote to his fiancee and second wife-to-be, Ettie Sheldon, between May 1892 and January 1894.
The annual exhibitions of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, formed in 1823 and still active today, provided a ridge between the Irish artist and the public, including critics and collectors. The book is divided into two volumes that describe two different political, social and artistic worlds: volume one (1823-1916), and volume two (1916-2010).
This story of Ninette de Valois' mythic rise to fame as dancer, choreo-grapher and director is illustrated with over fifty photographs and brought to life by sketches of Yeats, Lennox Robinson, Oliver St John Gogarty, Tyrone Guthrie, Lilian Baylis, Margot Fonteyn, Lydia Lopokova, Frederick Ashton and Constant Lambert, among others.
Lanesborough Power Station in County Longford was one of the most cost-effective and efficient peat-fired power stations in Ireland. Featuring detailed commentary on the early years and day-to-day running of the station, Pathways to Power is an essential chronicle of Ireland's industrial heritage.
This book presents a distinctive Irish perspective on the evolution and persistence of family business, while casting new light on the commercial development of Dublin during the last two hundred years.
This full-colour kaleidoscope of over 150 photographs by one of North America's leading photographers evokes a pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland, recording a world on the cusp of radical change: a time-capsule of personalities and landscapes, professions and activities, caught in the amber of the camera's eye.