Darkling stories in unnerving, visceral new collection from Deirdre Sullivan
The mind is traitor to the body in this collection of fourteen short stories by Deirdre Sullivan.
From bookseller to small press: No Alibis on the journey—and the joy—of publishing
No Alibis Press receives funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to publish Seed by Joanna Walsh by Emma Warnock No Alibis Press is the publishing arm of No Alibis Bookshop, a cultural hub of Belfast’s literary scene and host to events and informal literary chats...
Merrion Press wins category in Small Press of the Year
via The Bookseller Merrion Press is the Regional and Country winner for the island of Ireland in The British Book Awards. Merrion Press, the trade imprint of the Irish Academic Press, had by far the best year in its history in 2020, thanks in...
Slip-streams of memory, and communion with nature in Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s Thin Places
Thin Places|by Kerri ní Dochartaigh|Canongate|Hardback £14.99|ISBN 978 1 78689 963 7 by Susan McKeever I have emerged after reading ní Dochartaigh’s debut bruised and battered. I've also been enriched, mesmerised and inspired never to look at a moth in the same way again.
Poetry: Annemarie Ní Churreáin
photograph, Ruth McKee "...a poem is a way of happening, a mouth." (W.H. Auden) https://youtu.be/3ZzPn8i8R8g UCD Special Collections, Irish Poetry Reading Archive Penance for a girl in...
From The Grand Canal to the Dodder: illustrious lives
From the Grand Canal to the Dodder: illustrious lives, by Beatrice Doran|The History Press|€23.00|ISBN 9780750995573 by Tony Canavan This book is a collection of potted biographies of the noteworthy residents of four Dublin suburbs: Sandymount, Ringsend, Ballsbridge and Irishtown. As the...
Sing us a song for St. Patrick’s Day: best-loved Irish Ballads
Best-Loved Irish Ballads|Emma Byrne and Eoin O'Brien|The O'Brien Press|€14.99|ISBN:9781788492201 Fancy belting out a ballad for St. Patrick's Day? We have you covered, with the chords and music for two of the most famous Irish songs in the world, from the volume Best-Loved Irish Ballads (The O'Brien Press).
A darkness flowing—The Beasts They Turned Away, by Ryan Dennis
The Beasts They Turned Away|Ryan Dennis|Epoque press|9781999896089 by Eoghan Smith The Beasts They Turned Away, Ryan Dennis’s hypnotic, unsettling debut, is a peculiar story set in an inward-looking farming community in the west of Ireland. At the centre of this frequently brutal...
Twists and turns in new stories from Réaltán Ní Leannáin
Inní|Réaltán Ní Leannáin| Éabhlóid|ISBN 978-1-9160470-6-8 by Cathal Póirtéir In Réaltán Ní Leannáin's work there is her hallmark of tightly woven ties of family, neighbourhood and religion, central to the lives of the women and girls who live in working class areas of Catholic Belfast....
Moya Roddy talks about Italy, art and feminism in A Wiser Girl
by Moya Roddy A Wiser Girl (WordsontheStreet) tells the story of Jo Nowd, escaping to Italy with a suitcase full of paints, a broken heart and a passionate love for the medieval art of Sienna. Working-class, feisty, sometimes inarticulate, she dreams of becoming an artist and woman of the world....
