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The World’s Doubleness

The World’s Doubleness

Clíona Ní Ríordáin

From the natural world to the grit and banality of everyday life

Against Mystique

Against Mystique

Richard Bourke

National character: English decorum versus dreamy Celtic fecklessness

Witness to Revival

Witness to Revival

Emer Nolan

Mary Colum’s memoir of Ireland, literary revival and modernism

Comings and Goings

Comings and Goings

Pauline Hall

The ‘isolated and outlandish’ domain of the doomed Big House gentry

A Righteous Flame

A Righteous Flame

David O’Connor

A gift for evoking simple things: light, heat, water, air; food and drink

Design and Build

Design and Build

Neil Hegarty

Scenes of fleeting beauty captured in overlooked and unglamorous contexts

Boarding School Odyssey

Boarding School Odyssey

Enda Wyley

Poems of youth recollected. informed by humour yet speaking of heartbreak

A Grand Passion

A Grand Passion

Afric McGlinchey

Nora Barnacle’s life with ‘an envious, proud, lonely, discontented man’

Join the Queue

Join the Queue

Aiden O’Reilly

A fictional exploration of ideas pushed to their logical conclusion

Shit Buzz in Belgrade

Shit Buzz in Belgrade

Giles Newington

Kevin Power’s new novel is both riotous rant and thoughtful coming-of-age tale. The punchy lyricism enables sympathy as well as laughter

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