Puts the author's life in the context of his childhood and early formative years. This book concentrates on the numerous places his family lived - it also pinpoints the haunts of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. It is of interest to Joycean pilgrims and students of Irish literature alike.
This sequence of poems invites the reader to follow lovers from country to country and level to level of the love experience; from hesitant beginnings to early rapture, from joy possessed to bruised self-awareness and parting.
Frozen in Time is a collection of the papers presented at the recent Fagel Symposium, held at Trinity College, Dublin, with the explicit purpose of making this astonishing resource better known outside College walls.
A revised edition of the remarkable memoir, first published in 1991, which follows Kenny as a child in Mayo, through his adolescence in Dublin and his life in the United States.
Over the Backyard Wall describes a coming of age embodied by escape, self-discovery and a struggle to contend with the rigid culture of a small Irish town in Co. Kilkenny during WWII, with parents representing both sides of the civil war conflict of the 1920s.
William King's first novel is re-issued for the first time since its publication in 1997, augmented with an Afterword by the author, reflecting on his past work.
It is boom time in Dublin and Philip and Sam, a professional couple in banking and advertising gorged on success, buy a run-down monastery in a wealthy suburb. As they throw lavish parties to consolidate their social standing, cracks appear in the designer fixtures, mirroring the disintegration of marriage and a once-solid moral scaffolding.
Skelligs Haul is a generous compilation of Michael Kirby's prose and poetry, appealing for his simple, elegant style, his knowledge of unique local lore, and his inimitable observations.
Edited by her niece Sophia Grene, the anthology 'A Life in Postcards' is divided into several sections, each introduced by members of the family or friends, who round out a sense of the writer's life. Melosina Lenox- Conyngham's writings are rich with a delightful sense of humour and her ironic, quizzical pleasure in the world is contagious.