Ireland's Royal Canal, 1789-2009

This is a revised, more lavish edition of the volume published by The Lilliput Press in 1992, containing four new chapters. Ireland's Royal Canal 1789-2009 is the fruit of many years of research by Ruth Delany into the records of the canal company and othe...

Larks' Eggs: New and Selected Stories

Des Hogan is, and has always been, the real thing - a writer of great originality, dramatic flair, linguistic invention - who remakes the world every time he puts pen to paper.' Neil Jordan

Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary...

Old Swords

These eleven stories by Desmond Hogan, his first publication since Larks' Eggs: New and Selected Stories (2005), collect newly minted shards of experience focused on the lives of the dreamers and marginalized who populate his imagined worlds. They...

South of the Border HB

'This is the work of a major historical novelist. But it is something more than that too: the term "historical novel" has a reductive ring to it, as would the description "political novel". What we get here is imaginative fiction of a high order, built on ...

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 Only Art of Jack B. Yeats: Letters & Essays

This volume sheds new light on the life and works of Jack B. Yeats, the talented painter and poet too often overshadowed by his older brother William, through a collection of previously published and unpublished letters from John Butler Yeats to his so...

Watching the Door: A Memoir 1971-1978

As an Irish Catholic raised in Leicester, fresh from University College Dublin with a first in History, Kevin Myers is sent north to work for the Belfast bureau of RTE News. There he covers the increasingly vicious conflict erupting in the city as the...

Wicked Little Joe

In the summer of 1939, as a two-year-old in London, I was given away by my parents to a Chelsea friend and taken on the Irish Mail to Dublin.

Thus begins this extraordinary memoir by travel writer and novelist Joseph Hone, one of eight childr...