The People, Places & Historical Buildings of Dublin 7 with local author and historian Bernard Neary Wednesday 23 August, 6.30pm at Cabra Library Join Bernard for an interesting oral and visual tour of Dublin 7, discover interesting facts about the people, places and buildings of interest to the visitor and resident alike. This event is free, but booking essential Call Cabra Library on 01-8691414 to book your place. Books will be available to buy on the night, or purchase here
Each fortnight HeadStuff brings an unadulterated critique of the global art scene. For their July issue HeadStuff focused on The Pantehoen of Books and got in touch with Lilliput publisher Antony Farrell to write about censorship in publsihing. As part of documenta 14 in Kassel, The Parthenon of Books is a symbol of opposition to the banning of writings and the persecution of their authors. To realise this work, the Argentine artist Marta Minujín and the documenta 14 team are collecting books that have now been published anew after having been banned for years as well as those that are distributed legally in some countries but not in others.The installation is a replica of a temple…
This summer The Lilliput Press published Adrian Kenny’s remarkable memoir Before the Wax Hardened. Originally published in 1991, Lilliput is proud to reissue this portrayal of a generation, to which the author’s keen eye and clear style lend the truth and elegance of a classic. In a previous article in The Irish Times, Adrian shares his thoughts on writing. Adrian Kenny on writing memoir Adrian Kenny has written three memoirs detailing different periods of his life: Before the Wax Hardened, The Family Business and Istanbul Diary. A self-confessed frustrated novelist, he seems ill at ease with the idea that memoir might be his true calling. “There’s a need as deep as can be in people…
Clear some space on your bookshelves because we’re having a sale! Join us this Friday from 12pm- 6pm and again on Saturday between 11am and 3pm for our summer sale. All sale stock priced at €5 you’re bound to be hauling home bundles of new books! event page here and online sale here
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on Monday 19 June for a celebration of Stewart Parker’s lyrical novel Hopdance, largely drafted in the early 1970s but unpublished in his own lifetime.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…
Please join us for a literary afternoon Friday 16 June from 3-6pm in the Lilliput Press, where we will delight you with readings old and new. Take a break from the Joycean trail with a stroll around Cowtown and hear original work from some of Dublin’s finest writers, and some Ulysses renditions. Treat yourself or a friend to a wonderful book from our selection of discounted James Joyce titles.
Join us tomorrow evening for the official launch of Beat, The True Story of a Suicide Bomb and a Heart by Rowan Somerville. Rowan’s latest book will be launched officially by David McWilliams at 6pm in Hodges Figgis on Dawson Street. All Welcome.
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…