Join us for the launch of Desmond Hogan’s latest collection, The History of Magpies on Thursday, 22 June at 6.00pm in Hodges Figgis.

Join us in Books Upstairs, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2, on Monday 19 June  for a celebration of Stewart Parker’s lyrical novel Hopdance, largely drafted in the early 1970s but unpublished in his own lifetime. In a great tradition of Irish autobiographical fiction that includes James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark, Parker’s poignant novel centres on the amputation of his left leg when he was a 19-year-old university student. Masterful vignettes present the callow protagonist’s life before, during and after this ordeal. Marilynn Richtarik, Parker’s biographer, will read from Stewart Parker’s Hopdance (published by The Lilliput Press this year) and discuss the real events…

The Lilliput Press celebrates the great John Moriarty, who died ten years ago today on 1 June 2007. He passed like a comet through this life and we are proud to have published eight of his books over a thirteen-year period, beginning with Dreamtime in 1994 and concluding with Serious Sounds in 2007, uncovering and broadcasting his genius to the world. His posthumous reputation grows by the hour; he has been the subject of academia, film (Dreamtime Revisited), stage plays (Michael Harding adaptations), RTÉ television and radio broadcasts (readily found on YouTube), DVD and CD recordings. This week sees the unveiling of a commemorative plaque in his honour at the Angler’s Return, where he lived…