I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.
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A miscellany of tales long and short from a career in Irish journalism
An inspiring essay collection from inside the Travelling community
Blake’s visions of Eden and the meaning of imagination in his verse
An argument against pessimism and in support of deep human potential
A journey to motherhood, from miscarriage to the joy of birth
Poems of strife and discovery that recall Swift, Behan and Durcan
An Irish historian who encountered misogyny in her academic career
A moving poetic exploration of impermanence and mortality
The innovator Euripides puts the heedless Greek gods on the stage
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