This is a retrospective by a British/American poet, winner of the Northern Rock Foundation Writer Award, Britain's biggest literary prize (worth GBP60,000).
'Marseilles is no place for tourists.' This warts-and-all portrait of Marseilles, Izzo's home town, looks at the effects wrought by unemployment and National Front racism on a large immigrant populati
This narrative mystery examines the events surrounding the disappearance of Irish postman Larry Griffin, who failed to return home from his rounds on Christmas day, 1929, and was presumed to have met
Moving from the violent to the erotic, Conquest describes women questing to rediscover their own desire. Split into three sections, the collection begins in the 19th-century England of the Bronte sist
Ard Bia, one of Galway's most enduring restaurants, is about expecting great local food with an unusual twist, the best of Irish produce served with a little exotic magic: seasoning Atlantic scallops
Ernie O'Malley was the most senior Republican military commander from the Irish Civil War. In the 1940s-50s, decades after the original conflict, he conducted interviews and oral histories with IRA su
Provides a detailed review of the distribution, ecology, and conservation status of threatened mosses and liverworts (bryophytes) in Ireland, based on results from a collaborative program of research
Sarah Jackson explores the edges of writing in this uncanny book of touch. Tender, haunting, and yet beautifully poised, the poems in Pelt get right under your skin. The collection takes you on an uns
The World Record is an international anthology of work by poets from all the countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics, featuring a poem from each of the 204 Olympic nations, from Armenia to T
The ways in which the present longs for the past, questions it, tries to get in touch with it, and stretches the power of memory to its limits, are central to this new collection by Helen Dunmore. The
This book is based on the second half of the author's PhD dissertation, completed in 2004 at NUI Maynooth. Matthews charts the rise and fall of the numbers of women involved in Irish politics during t
