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Ink-Stained Hands featured in The Irish Times

Ink-Stained Hands, Lilliput's story of the print-makers of Ireland, has been featured in the 'Life & Culture' section of The Irish Times. 

Please follow the link to read the full piece:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2011/1221/1224309333980.html

Opening Hours over Christmas

The Lilliput Press will be closed for Christmas holidays from Thursday 22nd December. May we wish a very Merry Christmas to all our customers this holiday season. 

Kathy Gilfillan, Editor of Trinity Tales: Trinity College Dublin in the 1970s, on the Moncrieff Show

Kathy Gilfillan, editor of Trinity Tales in the Seventies, was featured on Sean Moncrieff's afternoon show on Newstalk yesterday (Tuesday 29th). If you didn't catch it, click on the link below and go to part 2 around the 4min mark.

http://media.newstalk.ie/listenback/46/tuesday/1/popup 

In Memoriam: Richard Douthwaite, author of The Growth Illusion and Short Circuit, amongst others.

http://www.feasta.org/  

Lilliput Press Catalogue 2011–2012

We are delighted to launch The Lilliput Press Calatalogue 2011–2012. The printed version is on its way and will be available next week!

If you would like a printed copy, please drop into our premises in Arbour Hill or contact us at info@lilliputpress.ie

REPRINTS FROM THE LILLIPUT PRESS

Reprint titles will include:

The Atlantean Irish. Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage by Bob Quinn

Leaving Ardglass by William King

Dead as Doornails by Anthony Cronin

Nostos by John Moriarty

A Poet's Country by Patrick Kavanagh

John Behan praises Ink-Stained Hands

Ink-stained Hands is one of the most important books ever published in Ireland. The fact that its subject is fine art Printing is all the more reason why this remarkable book should find a wide readership which it really deserves. Whilst print making may seem esoteric to many people, the manner in which Brian Lalor describes the history and practice of the art is exemplary in its vision and remarkable in it's detail of the people who inhabit that world ... The story of the Graphic Studio is a vital part of the evolution of Irish Art as it evolved from the dead hand of the 1950s into the more hopeful 1960s. There was a wind of change in the air, a faint hint of optimism in both economics and the arts. The foundation of both the Graphic Studio and the independent artist group in the 1960s were strong indications of this movement ... [Ink-Stained Hands] is the story of the times, lovingly rendered, when the arts in Ireland came of age. It is located in place and time and most importantly it is the story of the people who made it happen, in other words it is real ... The quality of the actual book is wonderful, a production of international standard. For this we owe a great big thanks to Antony Farrell and Lilliput Press. With this publication and the book on the life and work of Brian Bourke, art book production has reached a new standard in Ireland. Long may it continue. BUY THIS BOOK."


ﾖ John Behan speaking at IMMA on 9 February 2011

Rediscover John Broderick with the Irish Times

THE ATHLONE novelist and Irish Times reviewer John Broderick (1924-1989) is a sadly neglected figure. Author of 12 novels and countless reviews and opinion pieces, the 20th anniversary of his death should not pass without some acknowledgment of his contribution to Irish letters. He took the public role of the writer seriously: he once stated in an interview with Julia Carlson that the Irish were “pathological” when it came to homosexuality and then took the daring decision to feature homosexual couples in several of his novels.

In The Trial of Father Dillingham (1982), for example, Maurice and Eddie look on their love “as a recompense which they owed to one another as outcasts and aliens in a hostile world”. Then in An Apology for Roses (1973) Broderick describes a steamy sexual relationship between a priest, Fr Tom Moran, and a parishioner, Marie Fogarty; a daring story-line for the time.

Broderick was also harsh in his criticism of the crass acquisitiveness that governed many of the merchant class to which he belonged (the family owned the biggest bakery in the midlands). He had an ambivalent attitude to Roman Catholicism. Greatly attached to the cadences and solemnity of the Tridentine Latin Mass, he found it difficult to warm to the liturgical changes introduced after Vatican II. He worried about the future of Western civilisation due to the erosion of public morality.
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