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Brexit and the Political Economy of Ireland: Creating a New Economic Settlement

This book represents the first systematic study of the impact of Brexit on the political and economic future of Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Paul Teague
Published: May / 
May
Routledge
9780367720612
154  Pages
€139.23
Hardback
United Kingdom
General, economic conditions

Beyond Exclusion: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law in Medieval Ireland

The notion that all Gaelic peoples were immediately and ipso facto denied access to the English royal courts in Ireland, upon the advent of the English in 1167, has become so accepted in academic and popular histories of Ireland.
Stephen Hewer
Published: May / 
May
Brepols N.V.
9782503594576
420  Pages
€98.62
Hardback
Belgium
Ireland, British and Irish history

Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration

Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration investigates how three associated concepts-house, home and homeland-are represented in contemporary global art.
Maria Photiou (University of Derby, UK); Professor Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough University, UK)
Published: May / 
May
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
9781350203068
226  Pages
€94.00
Hardback
United Kingdom
Art history

Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When Life Becomes Craft

There are not many books about how people get younger. It doesn’t happen very often. But Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland documents a radical change in the experience of ageing.
Pauline Garvey; Daniel Miller
Published: May / 
May
UCL Press
9781787359680
254  Pages
€54
Hardback
United Kingdom
Ireland

Actional Poetics – ASH SHE HE: The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971-2020

Authoritative study of the Scottish born artist Alastair MacLennan who has achieved worldwide renown as a performance artist.
Sandra Johnston; Cherie Driver; Paula Blair
Published: May / 
May
Intellect Books
9781789383720
312  Pages
€36
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Individual artists, art monographs

The A-Z of Curious County Limerick: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics

An A to Z of quirky facts and stories about Limerick county.
Sharon Slater
Published: May / 
May
The History Press Ltd
9780750995030
160  Pages
€14.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Local history

Old Istanbul & Other Essays

This is the first book of essays by a major new Irish non-fiction writer from the West of Ireland, comparable to the celebrated Kilkenny essayist Hubert Butler first published by The Lilliput Press and subsequently widely acclaimed. Gerard McCarthy's writing is no less distinguished than Butler's. McCarthy writes of his book: "Perhaps the Philosophers who had the most enduring influence on me were the contrary figures of Nietzsche and Marcus Aurelius. The reading of each was an antidote to the other, but I was drawn to both by an instinctive affinity.They were augmented subsequently by the gargantuan figure of Michel de Montaigne. My interest has continued to be in the region where Philosophy merges into Literature, with a preference for a language of metaphor rather than of abstract reasoning.These eight essays were written over the course of more than a decade.The fact that they have all been published in the one place, by the good offices of Irish Pages, has allowed me see the continuity between them, and to hope that they might be seen by the reader to form a unity."
Gerard McCarthy
Published: January / 
2021
Irish Pages
9.78184E+12
£18.00
Hardback
Britain
Prose: non-fiction (DN)

Trump Rant: Christopher R. Agee on Donald J. Trump

Caustically humorous and polemically compulsive, Trump Rant is a work of meticulous political portraiture: a deep-delving and epoch-spanning investigation into the nature of power in American life, made luminous by Agee's nuanced, exploratory understanding of authoritarian drift and thwarted democratic aspiration in a number of world-historical contexts, from Belfast to the Balkans to the formerly Confederate South. Free-roaming in its breadth of reference and tonal range, the Rant is at once viscerally personal and unsettlingly resonant, infused throughout with an almost hypnotic sense of scale, largesse, and historical moment. Already renowned as a poet of emotional delicacy and singular stylistic vision, Agee's hallmark gifts of writerly intimacy and ethical resolve are here expanded and reconfigured on a panoramic canvas - moving from a pared-back opening section to the accelerating pace and barrage-like linguistic assaults of the latter addenda. But for all its freewheeling furies, shifting emotional registers and Kubrick-like black humour, it remains a remarkably formal work, moored to the relentlessly dangerous drumbeat of Donald J. Trump. The result is a combination of long-form radicalism and eclectic satire, startingly unique in its blend of aphorism, acuity and epic cultural imagining. Composed chronologically for nearly four years (from early 2017 until Election Day 2020), Trump Rant is a triumph of artistic witness and denunciation; an urgent retort to a global culture of imperilled legal standards and depleted literary response; and an incisive model of enlightenment and outrage in a "post-truth" world being visibly darkened by its criminal shadows.
Chris Agee
Published: January / 
2021
Irish Pages
9.78099E+12
£16.00
Hardback
Britain
Poetry (DC)

Ben Dorain: A Conversation with a Mountain

Ben Dorain: A Conversation with a Mountain draws on the work of an eighteenth-century Gaelic poem by Duncan Ba n MacIntyre, rendering it into English.Where it does so, this is not to present MacIntyre's poetry per se to an English-language reader, as is customary with a translation or version.
Garry MacKenzie, Kathleen Jamie, Meg Bateman
Published: January / 
2021
Irish Pages
9.78099E+12
£16.99
Hardback
Britain
Poetry (DC)

Kilclief & Other Essays

This long-awaited selection of essays and reviews from one of Ireland's leading critics brings together a wealth of ref lection, observation and astute literary comment. It ranges in time from William Carleton to Edna O'Brien, and in subject matter from recent Irish poetry to ghosts, children's books and MI5. Patricia Craig holds strong opinions on literary mer- it, and some of the essays collected in this book are less than adulatory. For example, she has included a highly critical, but good-humoured and amusing re- assessment of Somerville and Ross; and a couple of recent critical studies come in for a somewhat sharp evaluation.Where the tone is moderately unadmiring it is always justified (if provocative), and contributes to the overall balance of the collection. In short, Kilclief & Other Essays presents an original, diverting, intelligent and thought-provoking assem- bly of essays and reviews. Patricia Craig's latest book should appeal to the general reader as well as to those whose interests are more specialised, and it deserves a wide audience, not only in Ireland but also in the United Kingdom and beyond.
Patricia Craig
Published: January / 
2021
Irish Pages
9.78184E+12
£25.00
Hardback
Britain
Prose: non-fiction (DN)