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This is the debut collection of poetry from Clemency Emmet, a member of the famous family descended from revolutionary Robert Emmet. It includes full-colour artwork from Elizabeth Cope, one of Ireland's most acclaimed artists.

In this, her third collection, Geraldine Mitchell's words spring from a landscape sculpted by harsh Atlantic weather which infiltrates, informs and ultimately illuminates every aspect of her poetry. We embark on a voyage through memory loss, its isolating silence and, ultimately, death.

In this, the second collection from Limerick poet Mary Coll, her witty poems about love, marriage and family are enhanced with images by visual artist Margaret Lonergan.

A bilingual collection (in English and Irish) from the renowned Kerry poet, exploring themes of living with and coping with the complicated wonders of being bipolar.

First published in Irish in 1918, these seven stories are available in English for the first time. Each story explores the ways in which the 1916 Easter Rising affected the lives of ordinary men and women.

An anthology of new haiku from Ireland, comprising work from over 60 poets, many of whom have won awards in the USA, Canada and Japan.

This is a journey-in-verse from County Mayo to Hamburg, Germany, in the company of a border collie, Lady Cassie, with three sections devoted to Lady Cassie's point of view and three to the poet's. It is a venture of discovery transforming familiar motifs and ways of seeing the ordinary.

This highly evolved verse novel, inspired by the flamboyancy of Irish artist Pauline Bewick's art, gives epic treatment to the themes of gender, the body, time and the meaning of myth in this post-postmodern world.

These selected poems (in English and Irish) cover four decades of this acclaimed poet's work and explore themes including birth and women's affairs, nature, love and imagination, war, ageing and death.

Through critical and creative responses, Eavan Boland: Inside History takes a fresh look at Boland's influence as a poet and critic for the twenty-first century. The essays, poems, and interviews gathered here provide a new frame for critically engaging with Boland's work, one that crosses continental and aesthetic boundaries.

A collection of essays that survey the position of women in Irish society over the past century. Contributors tackle abortion, human rights, the gendered order of caring, poverty, violence against women, the constitution and legislation, and media and the arts. This book gives voice to the powerful and effective women and men working together to overcome inequalities and injustices.

In the author's seventh collection, Rowley explores myths and legends from Irish history concerning women, including the wooing of Etain, the sorrows of Deirdre, the Women Bards of Connaught, Ireland's Fairy Queens, the Mother, and the elopement of Diarmuid and Grainne.

In Herbert's collection, twin sisters share an uneasy reunion in a spa hotel, as secrets bubble up between them; an aging farmer wakes to an empty day, filled only with the sour legacy of betrayal; and a young woman makes a startling bid for freedom with Freddie Mercury's golden voice ringing in her ears.

The debut poetry collection from Dublin-born writer, filmmaker, and actor Luke Morgan. Whether he is imagining a cafe in liftoff or playing with a skeleton in a science lab, the author connects us to the moment, maps it, brings us beyond it, and changes the way we look at the world.

Theodore Deppe's sixth collection comprises twelve shorter poems, a lyric essay, and a book-length poem that begins with a swim in the North Atlantic after his father's death.

In this second collection from the young Galway poet and farmer, themes of birth, personal development and death run through the poems. There is also an autobiographical strand, with poems that spawn from within a working farm, across cultural divides to the intimacy of unorthodox relationships.

This inspiring collection of essays covers a broad range of topics: the passing of Seamus Heaney, meeting William Trevor, the Bayno (The history of the Iveagh Trust), being crowned Miss Mod in the 1970s in a dance hall in County Offaly, and travels in the Alps, among a host of others.

In this collection, historians and activists pay tribute to Hackett by bringing to light the little known history of Irish women's political, militant, and trade union activism.

Native Donegal writers made a considerable contribution to the emerging Revivalist Gaelic literature in the last century. In this book, the biography of Fionn Mac Cumhaill, a prolific and influential member of that school, is meticulously presented along with an edited collection of his essays.

Darkly humorous and surreal, the unsettling stories in Out of Order will entertain but have you looking at the world, and over your shoulder, with new eyes.

This set of interrelated one-act noir plays are set in Ireland in the 1980s. Premiering in New York during the 1st Irish Theatre Festival in 2014, it received awards for Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Design.

Staying Thin for Daddy is the debut English-language short story collection from Brennan, one of Ireland's leading writers in both the Irish and English languages. The book was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Collection Award.

Set in the early 1920s in County Kerry during the Civil War, this play tells the story of the Dillon family, who give refuge to Republican soldiers. Things get more complicated when a Free State soldier comes to them for refuge and the daughters fall in love with him. An Irish language text.

With their stylistic assurance and wildly imaginative flair, Nic Aodha's poems are invigorating the Irish language. Many of her poems are visionary meditations; meeting places where the inner being can commune with the outer world. This is an essential volume of modern Irish poetry, presented in a bilingual edition.

Kelly's poetry gives voice to the ordinary, everyday lives of Irish women. She writes out of her own experience as a woman, wife, mother, nurse, farmer, and feminist who over the past fifty years has been an astute witness to the narrow confines of home and the limitations imposed by Irish society on women.

Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov was one of the most celebrated Russian poets of the twentieth century and a decorated war hero. His autobiographical play Gondla is the tale of a visionary poet who chooses between escape and self-sacrifice. This translation, with an introduction by the poet Philip McDonagh, makes Gumilyov's work available to a wider audience.

Poet, short story writer, and children's author, Boland was born and lived for much of his life in Dublin before moving to Roscommon, where he was appointed writer-in-residence by Roscommon County Council. In the Space Between is his second poetry collection.

Two Cigarettes Coming Down the Boreen collects oral histories from the people of Ardrahan and the surrounding areas of south Galway. These beautiful stories capture the simplicity and innocence of life in the first half of the twentieth century.

In Opening Time there is a sense of a life richly lived and imaginatively examined. Time in both historical and personal terms is central to these poems that meditate on life, creation, and continuity. Delap is an experienced sailor, and the sea is ever present. The insights of a lone sailor are presented within a multigenerational family context and an informed historical perspective.