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In this new collection, acclaimed Donegal writer Mary Turley-McGrath explores the magic and mystery of destination and destiny; of meetings and misses; of what might have happened. The poems range widely through time and space, and are keyed to the music and chaos of interconnection.

In this wide-ranging bilingual collection, Ni Ghallchoir's poetry is translated by such leading writers as Maire Mhac an tSaoi, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Joan Newmann, Kate Newmann, Frank Sewell, Celia de Freine, and Gabriel Rosenstock.

With compelling accounts of rural life, these poems recall the colloquial and dramatic mastery of Robert Frost, while the explorations of Irish landscape and wildlife prompt readers to draw comparisons with Ted Hughes and Dylan Thomas.

This vivid memoir chronicles life in a small Gaeltacht area in Munster that has remained largely immune to outside influences because of its isolated location. O Maolchathaigh is an astute observer of people and place. His recollections of a "lost world" are unique and searing in their honesty.

Ireland's best-known artist celebrates her eightieth birthday with a refreshingly honest memoir of an extraordinary life. From growing up in County Kerry to becoming an internationally successful artist, Bewick remains an intregral part of Ireland's cultural legacy.

One of the major poets of modern Ireland, Cathal O Searcaigh has made a huge contribution to the range and scope of Irish language literature over the past four decades. This volume, drawn from six ground-breaking collections published over the past fifteen years, testifies to his lyrical genius and his enduring importance at the very heart of what is happening in Gaelic literature today.

This deeply moving debut collection is where poetry and history meet. Connie Roberts recounts her childhood in one of Ireland's most notorious industrial schools, coming to terms with this experience and examining the roles played by those around her.

Gathering together poems by over fifty poets, Berryman's Fate is at once a testament to John Berryman's living presence in contemporary poetic culture and a gift on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. Contributors include Paul Muldoon, John Montague, Paula Meehan, and Martin Dyar.

This second volume of James Liddy's essays, selected and introduced by Eamonn Wall, is framed by an intense and enduring attachment to Dublin and love of Irish literature. Meeting Patrick Kavanagh was the singular event that changed James Liddy's life and opened up a new world of writers, social life and cultural exchanges.

The stories in Hugging Thistles deal with the interior worlds of intense, multilayered characters. They struggle with matters that are often unspeakable, and the powerful paradoxical emotions that emerge control their lives. Hugging Thistles marks Aideen Henry's stunning short fiction debut.

This first volume of James Liddy's sparkling essays, selected and introduced by Eamonn Wall, provides unique insights into the work of American writers and Irish writers overseas, and includes first-hand accounts of meeting many of the canonical figures of American poetry.

Alan Hayes took on the daunting challenge of sifting through Pauline Bewick's family files, photo albums and press cuttings to select the photographs that he would use to tell Bewick's life story.

In this debut collection Orfhlaith Foyle's poetry is adventurous, mysterious, and passionate. Her poems tell of migrant emotions as well as migrant journeys. She was born in Nigeria to Irish parents and is currently based in Galway. She has written Belios, a novel and Revenge, a collection of short fiction and poetry.

A new collection of poetry by one of Ireland's leading voices is a cause for celebration, and in this stunning collection O'Searcaigh demonstrates that he has his finger of the pulse of the modern Gaelic poetic consciousness

Recently appointed as Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, Chapson reveals himself to be a deeply cultured sensualist who communes effortlessly between a pan-Hellenic past and a more offbeat latter-day Milwaukee. Attuned to the ancient, but alert to the present, he, like Cavafy, is a poet of time and desire.

For Jack Kerouac the heart of the haiku was "the objective beautiful sad ungraspable world as it is". Translated for the first time into Irish, Kerouac's poems are presented in a facing-page English- and Irish-language edition.

Transitions of many kinds - in relationships, in parenthood, in aging, and in the dizzying speed of digital and technological developments - are at the heart of this new poetry collection by Cullen. Throughout, she imbues a sense of the animal and the divine with poems that grapple with the corporeality of changes and the illumination of love that evolves over time.

This bilingual collection of essays contains eighteen essays of literary and linguistic interest in Modern Irish, Welsh, Cornish, and other Celtic languages.

A legendary animal, the Sasquatch is hunted by many but seen by very few. These philosophical reflections about the disappearance of species, both real and imagined, can also be read as a dirge for a species, culture, or language in irreversible decline.

"13 essays ... in tribute to Hilda Tweedy (1911-2005) and the Irish housewives Association (1942-1992)"--P. [4] of cover.

Handy and O Conchubhair's collection demonstrates the breadth and depth of Celtic studies as a vibrant, multifaceted, interdisciplinary subject. Combining essays by senior scholars with new and groundbreaking work by emerging scholars, this volume explores current trends and themes in Celtic Studies ranging from literary manuscripts to contemporary literature.