A Poet's Journal and Other Writings

A powerful and authoritative selection of critical essays and reviews by poet Padraic Fallon. Skilfully compiled and edited by his son Brian Fallon, this book is published to mark the centenary of his father's birth.

Padraic Fallon (1905 - 1974), one ...

Bums, Farts & Other Inappropriate Acts

In this work John Partridge (assisted by John Martin) proves that Jonathan Swift was the author of The Benefit of Farting and Arse Musica (1722 and subsequent editions). The volume contains a poem about Hester (Vanessa) Van Homrigh that the author mai...

Cadenus & Swift's Most Valuable Friend

These books are being reissued as they appeared in the first Dolmen Press editions in one composite volume, with an invaluable, contextual introduction by eighteenth-century Swift scholar Andrew Carpenter. He assesses the reaction of Swift's serious biogra...

Cadenus & Swift's Most Valuable Friend (HB)

These books are being reissued as they appeared in the first Dolmen Press editions in one composite volume, with an invaluable, contextual introduction by eighteenth-century Swift scholar Andrew Carpenter. He assesses the reaction of Swift's serious biogra...

Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan

Writer, poet, lecturer, broadcaster and man-of -letters, John Jordan (1930-88) was a distinguished scholar-critic in the Dublin of his day, teaching English at University College Dublin (1955-66) and at the Memorial University of Newfoundland at St John's...

Galway of the Races

Born of a Belfast manse, Robert Lynd (1879-1949) became one of the most graceful and favoured writers of the early century, and had some thirty books published in his lifetime. The essays in Galway of the Races represent his writings on Ireland (Prote...

Grandmother and Wolfe Tone

'The finest and most penetrating essayist this country has produced this century ... there is not a dull page in this civilized and witty book.'
- The Irish Times...

In The Land of Nod

In The Land of Nod is the fourth and final volume of Hubert Butler's essays and crowns a remarkable literary odyssey. As Neal Ascherson writes: 'When the first collection appeared in 1985 he was already an old man/ His fame began to spread acr...

Making It New: Essays on the Revised Leaving Certificate English Syllabus

Making It New appears on the occasion of the first major revision of the Leaving Certificate English syllabus in thirty years. This pioneering collection of essays examines the core authors and texts from the new syllabus. Written by leading scholars f...

My Time in Space

'This is a stimulating book of exploration, experience and philosophical meditation. As always with Robinson, the writing is exact and eloquent, the terrritory exciting. This is a book to cherish and re-read, challenging, infuriating and satisfyin...

Reading the Future

A fascinating series of interviews offering insight into the lives and work of twelve great Irish writers, as selected by an eclectic panel of avid readers for the RTE Radio One series Reading the Future.

"Writing, though it often...

Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and Other Writings

'Potent and original.' - The Irish Times

'Robinson's prose speaks more powerf...

Stimulus of Sin: Selected Writings of John Broderick

Athlone-born writer John Broderick was an astringent commentator on the rapidly shifting mores of Ireland from the 1950s to the 1980s. Better known for his novels, he was also a prolific reviewer and essayist. This new collection brings together a fascinat...

Stones of Aran: Labyrinth

Like J.M. Synge almost a century before him, Tim Robinson portrays the inner and outer life of a landscape and its inhabitants. Encyclopedia of myth and reality, herbal, love-letter, missal, jest-book, anthology of cultural responses - Stones of Aran ...

Tales and Imaginings

From the two volumes of Stones of Aran to the essays collected in Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and My Time in Space, Tim Robinson has established himself as one of the great non-fiction writers at work in the English language. In light of t...

The Battle of the Books

The war of words between critics and writers is no paper conflict but affects daily life where literature and politics interact. The twentieth-century concern is nowhere more evident than in Ireland today where the growing 'Troubles' in Ulster...

The Children of Drancy

With Escape from the Anthill, his first volume of essays, Hubert Butler became universally acclaimed as one of Ireland's most enduring and distinctive writers. In this long-awaited...

The Dolmen Press (Limited edition)

The Dolmen Press, which operated under the guiding hand of Liam Miller from 1951 to 1987, was a beacon in a dark time for Irish publishing and occupies a central position in the story of Irish poetry after Yeats. This collection of essays, edited by th...

The Dolmen Press: A Celebration

The Dolmen Press, which operated under the guiding hand of Liam Miller from 1951 to 1987, was a beacon in a dark time for Irish publishing and occupies a central position in the story of Irish poetry after Yeats. This collection of essays, edited by th...

The Edge of the City: A Scrapbook 1976-91

Desmond Hogan is one of Ireland's leading writers. In addition to his novels and stories, he has travelled widely (for various newspapers) to some of the strangest and most fascinating parts of the world. In the past fifteen years, he has visited ...

The Figure in the Cave and Other Essays

'That Montague is a significant poet does not need proving. These essays show that he is almost equally formidable as an autobiographer and critic.'
- Robert Greacen, Ir...

The Irish Tradition

First published in 1947, these celebrated lectures and introductions to the medieval and modern Gaelic-speaking culture, which was drawing to a close when Flower first came to Ireland ...

What Did I Die Of?

Medicine and literature are the unifying strands in this skilfully wrought tapestry of Irish biographical portraiture. It delineates the pioneering 18th-century Limerick surgeon Sylvester O'Halloran, his contemporary Oliver Goldsmith MD, Dublin's Milton e...