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...

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...

Ten Thousand Saints: A Study in Irish and European Origins

"During the twenty years from the early 1950s to the [1972] publication of Ten Thousand Saints Hubert Butler amassed, by hand, every possible reference to every possible saint in the Irish corpus in Irish and Latin ... His understanding of Ireland as part ...