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Inventing the Republic?

Inventing the Republic?

Joe Cleary

Irish writers and their attitudes to the events of the revolutionary period

A Wading Light

A Wading Light

Afric McGlinchey

Seán Hewitt’s memoir of queer love, helplessness and heartbreak

Poetry and Fishing

Poetry and Fishing

Seán Lysaght

Retracing the journeys of the enthusiastic angler Ted Hughes

Full Throttle

Full Throttle

Rosemary Jenkinson

Dark but exhilarating stories of surreal events and parallel universes

For Your Discomfort

For Your Discomfort

Afric McGlinchey

Lullabies, but not the kind you’d want to sing to your baby

The Irish Reach

The Irish Reach

Rory McTurk

The influence of Gaels and Gaelic tradition on Old English poetry

Flowers of Orwell

Flowers of Orwell

Aidan Tynan

Putting economic and social justice at the heart of the ecological project

The Keening Waves

The Keening Waves

Síle Ní Mhurchú

Lady Gregory’s legends of ancient Celtic gods and fighting men

The Past is a Place

The Past is a Place

Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado

Stories from the North about trying to stay ahead of the past

History or Herstory?

History or Herstory?

Rosemary Jenkinson

A dazzlingly adventurous fusion of fiction and memoir from Belfast

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