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Written with Tears

Written with Tears

Amanda Bell

An inspiring essay collection from inside the Travelling community

William’s World

William’s World

Peter Brooke

Blake’s visions of Eden and the meaning of imagination in his verse

The Attic Tarantino

The Attic Tarantino

Sean Sheehan

The innovator Euripides puts the heedless Greek gods on the stage

The Story from Below

The Story from Below

Patricia Craig

The Irish working class’s long search for its voice to be heard in literature

Intimate Oscillations

Intimate Oscillations

Keith Payne

A poet’s odyssey ‑ from Dublin suburbs out into the world and back

Not Like The Others

Not Like The Others

Amanda Bell

A pitch-perfect depiction of life as a teenage girl in 1980s Britain

The Pleasure Principle

The Pleasure Principle

Gerald Dawe

A poet born to wealth and privilege whose gift miraculously survived

The Ghost Hunters

The Ghost Hunters

Aiden O’Reilly

A literary treatment set in Florida of the classic ‘hero’s quest’ story

A Great Worker

A Great Worker

Alena Dvořáková

The work which, 100 years ago, gave us the concept of the robot

Finding a Space

Finding a Space

Catriona Crowe

Women and writing in Ireland’s breakthrough feminist ‘second wave’

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