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Liner Notes

Ciaran Berry The poems in Ciaran Berry’s third collection consider questions of what it means to grow up somewhere and grow away from somewhere… From brief lyrics that examine a mixtape or a plectrum to larger meditations on the connections between the life of...

Collected Poems

Dermot Healy The shovels / work like oars rowing the dead man / from this world to the next. Though Dermot Healy’s first collection, The Ballyconnell Colours, appeared in 1992 his first poems dated from twenty years earlier and were published and singled out for...

The Night Joe Dolan’s Car Broke Down

Padraic McIntyre Since its first production in 2010 The Night Joe Dolan’s Car Broke Down has been a phenomenally popular fixture in Ireland’s theatrical calendar.  On a stormy St Stephen’s Night people wait in The Glenaduff Inn to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of...

The Last Straw

Tom French Tom French’s fourth collection, The Way to Work (2016), continues to explore the territory he has been making his own since his astonishing 2001 debut, Touching the Bones. The usual French hallmarks — seriousness, sincerity, family, the past, rural Ireland...

Lamentations

Paul Muldoon The Churchyard at Creggan The Lament for Art O’Leary Ben Gunn Typhoid Mary Olagón A translation of a classic 18th-century Irish poem introduces a dramatic reimagining of the heartrending rage of ‘The Lament for Art O’Leary’; a sequence of lyrics from...

Given Light

Michael Coady Given Light, Michael Coady’s most moving book to date, incorporates — in his own inimitable style — poetry, prose and photographs. Increasingly alert to ‘time’s undertow’, Coady finds intimations of transcendence in the everyday. ‘Dear Afterlife’ is his...
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