Mar
30
2020

Extract: Are You With Me? Kevin Boyle and the Rise of the Human Rights Movement

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Kevin Boyle played  a major role over many years in seeking a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Northern Ireland. One previously unknown initiative involved his effort, with fellow lawyer Francis Keenan, to use the European Commission on Human Rights as a mechanism to seek a negotiated solution to the 1981 IRA hunger strike. That effort is the subject of this excerpt from Are You With Me? Kevin Boyle and the Rise of the Human Rights Movement by former CNN correspondent Mike Chinoy. Kevin Boyle watched the hunger strike crisis with growing dismay.  Sympathetic to the predicament of the prisoners, and disgusted by what he and many others saw as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s intransigence,…

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Mar
30
2020

The Lilliput Press orders

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Following Friday night’s government announcement of strict measures for people in Ireland to stay home for at least two weeks in order to curb the spread of Covid-19, we are no long able to process orders.   Customers can continue to place orders with us through www.lilliputpress.ie and through bookshop websites, but orders will not be processed and shipping has been suspected until government restrictions are lifted. We will fulfil these as soon as we are able.   We want to thank all our customers and friends who have supported our authors so enthusiastically over the past few weeks. It is a difficult situation for any author to launch a book virtually and not to…

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Mar
27
2020

A Sabbatical in Leipzig by Adrian Duncan: In conversation with Rob Doyle, 27 March 2020

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As part of Adrian Duncan’s virtual book tour for A Sabbatical in Leipzig, you can read an interview he held with Rob Doyle here.   ROB DOYLE: Hallo Adrian. I’ve spent the last two days reading your very fine new novel A Sabbatical in Leipzig. Before we talk about the book, how is it there in occupied Berlin? What’s the city like now? ADRIAN DUNCAN: It’s in lockdown now similar to the UK, but it’s been like this for the last 10 days. People walk in twos on the street, schools closed and playgrounds and all pubs and (heaven forbid) clubs too. ROB DOYLE: Yup. Same as it’s been here. Doubt I’ll be able to…

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Mar
26
2020

Adrian Duncan – Ask Me Anything

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Our Thursday #Sabbatical Tour event was a Twitter ‘Ask Me Anything’ hour with Adrian Duncan, author of A Sabbatical in Leipzig. The Twitter conversations can be found here – or, read on for a full compilation of questions and answers! The Lilliput Press @LilliputPress Welcome to today’s #SabbaticalTour event… an Ask Me Anything (#AMA ) with author @adrian_duncan_ ! Reply to this tweet with any questions you have! We’ll start… you travelled to Bilbao to research this book. How did your trip differ to a normal trip to a new city? #AskAdrian This might be of interest to any #BookBloggers or #BookLovers out there! And don’t forget, @DubrayBooks are offering 10% off A Sabbatical in…

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Mar
26
2020

Adrian Duncan and Sue Rainsford in Twitter conversation

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On Tuesday, 24th of March, Adrian Duncan and Sue Rainsford had a Twitter conversation about Adrian’s new book, A Sabbatical in Leipzig as part of our virtual #SabbaticalTour. This event was in association with Dubray Books, who are offering 10% off A Sabbatical in Leipzig with the code ‘leipzig’ until Friday 27th March. Sue Rainsford’s Follow Me to Ground is also for sale through Dubray Books. The full chat can be found at this link, and we have also transcribed the interview below. We hope you enjoy! Lilliput Press (@LilliputPress) Welcome to Adrian Duncan @adrian_duncan_in conversation with Sue Rainsford (@humbird_fuil) ! Follow along as they chat about A Sabbatical in Leipzig. @DubrayBooks is offering 10% off A…

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Mar
26
2020

35 books over 35 years: monuments in time

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35 on 35 : monuments in time — cultural interventions in which every word and image weighs. Our publisher, Antony Farrell has chosen some of his top books from 35 years of publishing.                               I 1980s SFOTSOC by Tim Robinson (pamphlet) The Rock Garden by Leo Daly (novel) Escape from the Anthill by Hubert Butler (essay) Stones of Aran x 2 vols by Tim Robinson (natural history) The Village of Longing by George O’Brien (memoir) Handbook to a Hypothetical City by Albert Rechts (satire) Season of the Daisies by Tom Phelan (novel) Hazel, A life of Lady Lavery by Sinead McCoole (biography)…

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Mar
23
2020

A Sabbatical in Leipzig by Adrian Duncan: Read an extract here

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As part of Adrian Duncan’s virtual book tour for A Sabbatical in Leipzig, you can read an extract here: A Sabbatical in Leipzig Extract You can purchase Adrian Duncan’s second novel here for 35% off with the code MARCH2020. ‘A book such as W.G. Sebald might have written, had he been an Irish engineer. In precise and penetrating prose, this novel probes memory and absence, and offers a vivid evocation of how love and trouble, between them, can support a life and frame a world. A quietly compelling novel from a writer of real daring and poise.’ VONA GROARKE ‘A Sabbatical in Leipzig is by turn poetic and forensic, exuberant and melancholy. At all times,…

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Mar
13
2020

March 2020

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As of 13 March 2020, staff at the Lilliput Press are now working from home to help curb the spread of COVID-19. Web orders will be processed as normal with a 35% discount on March titles.   Emails will be monitored but we appreciate your patience with any delays in answering queries. The office telephone will not be monitored during this time. Please send all queries regarding submissions to editorial@lilliputpress.ie and all other queries to publicity@lilliputpress.ie. Thank you for you patience, and stay safe!

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Feb
28
2020

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In light of recent developments, the Lilliput Press has consulted with advisors, stakeholders and the wider community. We are taking these on board and we are taking positive steps to alter our practices henceforth.

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Dec
19
2019

Top 35 Books in 35 Years!

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It’s time for the final blog post of Lilliput’s Top 35 books in 35 Years! What are your favourite Lilliput books? As we wave goodbye to 2019, let’s celebrate our staff favourite Lilliput fiction books!   1. Portobello Notebook by Adrian Kenny We love the cosy feel of this little gem of a book! This collection of stories is set in Portobello, on the edge of Dublin city centre, just inside the canal. The stories reflect on characters on the edge of life, personalities that do not quite fit in: Michael, the country boy who drowns himself; Harry, the old Jewish dealer living alone; Liam, the crude but jovial emigrant returning to Ireland for a…

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