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The reader of Harry Gilligan’s excellent treatise on the History of Dublin Port (Published by Gill & Macmillan in 1988) will quickly realise that the development of the Harbour and Port of Dublin was in the hands of a number of inspiring and colourful characters.

Born in Loughbrickland, Co Down, in 1831, Helen Mabel Trevor was encouraged in her love of drawing and painting from an early age. Self-taught for a large part of her life, she attended the Royal Academy Schools in London from 1877 to 1880. Trevor travelled to France in the 1880s, studying at the atelier of Carolus-Duran in Paris and visiting Brittany and Normandy, where she painted scenes of the daily life of the local communities.

A Present of an Orange is a collection of twenty-four distinctive and entertaining new stories from Seymour Cresswell. Drawing on his own experiences, Cresswell covers everything from his love/hate relationship with the legal profession and the vicissitudes of parenthood to his lifelong passion for drama and his love of sailing.