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Intimacy With Strangers Book Launch

The Lilliput Press invites you to the launch of Intimacy With Strangers: A Life of Brief Encounters by Ciaran Carty at The Workman’s Club, Tuesday 23rd April at 6.30pm.

Guest Speaker Joseph O’Connor.

Since incurring the wrath of his first editor in 1960 by making Hitchcock’s Psycho his film of the year, veteran cineast CIARAN CARTY has consistently championed the arts, developing a career as one of Ireland’s leading critics and broadcasters.

Intimacy with Strangers offers a dazzlingly original, thought-provoking approach to celebrity interviewing. Ciaran Carty draws upon a career involving many of the world’s leading writers, artists, actors and directors as they explore intimate concerns, ranging from love and rejection to the smallest physical sensations of pleasure and pain, and to the great issues of politics and war, God and atheism – the big and small of the human condition. Interweaving recent cultural and social history, Carty exposes unexpected affinities shared by his eclectic cast of subjects.

Passing of Kildare Dobbs

Lilliput Press is saddened to  learn of the recent passing of Kildare Dobbs. Born in Meerut, India, Dobbs was educated in Dublin, Cambridge and London. He also served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. In 1952, he immigrated to Canada where, among other achievements, he co-founded the Canadian magazine Tamarack Review and won a Governor General’s Literary Award for his autobiography Running to Paradise. In 2005, Lilliput Press published Running the Rapids, a self-portrait that vividly evokes the world of this restless man of letters. Dobbs is survived by his wife of 33 years, photographer and artist Linda Kooluris Dobbs, his four children — John Dobbs, Christian Dobbs, Lucinda Favell and Sarah Dobbs — as well as many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

'In memory and imagination there is no time: all is simultaneous.' Kildare Dobbs (1923–2013)

Traces of Peter Rice

Click HERE for a podcast celebrating the launch of our new book Traces of Peter Rice edited by Kevin Barry. The show, first broadcast on the RTÉ Radio 1 Arts Tonight programme, features contributions from Minister Ruairi Quinn, sculptor Vivienne Roche, architect and journalist Shane O'Toole and Kevin Barry, editor of the book and Emeritus Professor of Humanities at NUI Galway.  

Linked to the book is an exhibition, Traces of Peter Rice, currently running at Arup's Phase 2 exhibition space, 8 Fitzroy Street, London.

The exhibition tours to the Centre Culturel Irlandais from 14 May-28 June and then to the Farmleigh Gallery in Dublin in the autumn.

Donal Ryan at the Dublin Book Festival 2012

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What Richard Did

Fantastic film directed by Leonard Abrahamson based on Kevin Power's novel Bad Day in Blackrock, published first by The Lilliput Press in 2008

What Richard Did follows Richard Karlsen, golden-boy athlete and undisputed alpha-male of his privileged set of South Dublin teenagers, through the summer between the end of school and the beginning of university. The world is bright and everything seems possible, until one summer night Richard does something that destroys it all and shatters the lives of the people closest to him. Featuring extraordinary performances from its mainly young cast, What Richard Did is a quietly devastating study of a boy confronting the gap between who he thought he was and who he proves to be.

Showing in cinemas nationwide

Read a review here

Buy the book at a discount here

Dreamtime, Revisited screening at the IFI, Dublin, October 2012

Dreamtime, Revisited by Anú Productions, inspired by the works of Irish writer, poet and philosopher, John Moriarty, will be exclusively released at the IFI from Friday 12th October 2012.

A notably brilliant student in UCD during the late 1950s, Moriarty disappeared from public view for many years but, in the final years of his life, he re-emerged as a prominent Irish writer and spiritual philosopher. In this period Moriarty published nine books through the Lilliput Press including Dreamtime (1994, revised 1999), Nostos, An Autobiography (2001), Invoking Ireland (2005) and What the Curlew Said - Nostos, Continued (2007). On his death in 2007 The Guardian wrote ’many considered John as a major writer, comparable to Yeats, Joyce and Beckett.’

Dreamtime, Revisited weaves together contemporary and archive material, with excerpts from some of Moriarty’s key talks, in a labyrinthine invocation of what he called his "dream-vision" of Ireland. A reflective essay mirroring Moriarty’s gaze upon the face of contemporary and historical Ireland Dreamtime, Revisited explores the spiritual and poetic dimensions of its people and landscape. With music from legendary Cúil Aodha musician and composer, Peadar Ó Riada, and archival sequences unearthed from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

Tickets will be available from the 26th September from the IFI Box Office on 01 679 3477 or online at www.ifi.ie.

Jammet's of Dublin Reprint

We are delighted to announce that the paperback edition of Jammet's of Dublin has been reprinted and is once again available to buy from lilliputpress.ie!