Apr
23
2024
A three-day festival celebrating the life and works of Irish writer and philosopher, John Moriarty. Book tickets here. Browse the work of John Moriarty here.
Apr
18
2024
Blurring the Lines: Fictionalising Reality Award-winning author Besserie discusses the art of fictionalising the real lives of artists, from Francis Bacon to Samuel Beckett and W. B. Yeats. In this intriguing conversation, Besserie will discuss the ways in which literature and art can subvert conventional narratives and challenge audiences to reconsider even the most familiar stories. Book tickets here. Award-winning author Maylis Besserie discusses the art of fictionalising the real lives of artists, from Francis Bacon to Samuel Beckett and W. B. Yeats. Her work gently probes the border between fact and fiction, creating stories that reimagine history, challenge perceptions, and uncover the blurred boundaries between reality and imagination. In the final instalment of her…
Apr
09
2024
Mark your diaries and join us for the book launch of the hotly-anticipated debut novel Ravelling by Estelle Birdy on Thursday 9 May 2024 from 6pm at Hodges Figgis. All welcome, free to attend – reserve your spot here. An Irish Times, Sunday Independent and The Journal Most Anticipated Book of 2024 SET IN DUBLIN’S LIBERTIES, Estelle Birdy’s explosively original debut Ravelling channels the energies and agonies of young men let loose in the city, their city, navigating the tumultuous trajectory of youth and young manhood, where they balance their hopes with the harsh realities of their present. Hurtling between friendships, feuds, drug-deals, family and brushes with the law, this is modern Dublin as never before portrayed. Ravelling follows Deano, a weed-smoking hurling star,…
Jan
24
2024
It’s our fortieth year in the business of independent publishing! And The Lilliput Press is doing a big stocktake to celebrate – along the way finding hidden gems … Here’s your first update from Publisher Antony Farrell. With Lilliput Press’s current pre-spring stocktake in our auxiliary warehouse above the stables in Knockmaroon, titles are being uncovered in the form of well-preserved long-lost classics previously deemed out of print. The following have so far re-emerged and are back on our shelves. First, two Joycean masterworks, one on Ulysses, the other on Finnegans Wake: FAITHFUL DEPARTED, THE DUBLIN OF JOYCE’S ULYSSES by Kieran Hickey (2004) €25 pbk, based on Robert French’s photographs in the National Library of Ireland. THE ONDT…
Aug
11
2023
Lilliput Press, one of Ireland’s smallest but most prestigious publishing houses, is proud to present a compilation of some of our many literary event highlights throughout 2023 for Culture Night. A special video will go live here on this page at 6PM on 22 September 2023 – make sure to tune in for exciting insights into the world of books from some very talented authors and guest speakers!
Jul
04
2023
Speaking about our publishing house with founder of Lilliput Antony Farrell, Kelly from Blooms and Barnacles podcast and local author and historian Bernard Neary.
May
15
2023
The Lilliput Press cordially invites you to the book launch of A Life in Medicine: From Asclepius to Beckett by Professor Eoin O’Brien With guest speaker Robert Ballagh 6.30pm Thursday 18 May 2023 at Dubray Books, 36 Grafton Street, Dublin, D02 X560 All welcome ABOUT A LIFE IN MEDICINE In his memoir, A Life in Medicine: From Asclepius to Beckett, Eoin O’Brien, an Irish cardiologist and clinical scientist of international repute, recounts his life in medicine and his friendships with doctors, scientists, writers and painters. O’Brien’s love of literature and the arts brought him into close contact with some remarkable writers and artists, among them Samuel Beckett, Edith Fournier, Nevill Johnson, Con Leventhal, Brian O’Doherty and Niall…
Mar
23
2023
Poet Paul Muldoon in conversation with artist Maria Simonds-Gooding at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) for the book launch of An File in November 2022. Copyright for all images: Maria Simonds-Gooding Audio recording credit: Judith Coe Book published by: Lilliput Press – available for purchase here ABOUT THE BOOK Mícheál Ó Gaoithín (1904–74), poet and writer, was born 3 January 1904 on the Great Blasket island, one of the six surviving children of renowned storyteller Peig Sayers and her husband, Pádraig ‘Flint’ Ó Guithín, a small farmer and fisherman. Mícheál Ó Gaoithín became a fisherman after finishing primary school and worked on the family farm until around 1930 when he decided to follow his…
Jan
27
2023
We record with deep sadness the death last Sunday, 22 January, of our author Valerie Pakenham, whose magnificent edition of Maria Edgeworth’s Letters from Ireland Lilliput published in 2018. Valerie was a scrupulous and spirited scholar, immersed in the history of her adopted Westmeath, where she presided over Tullynally Castle Gardens, her unruly family and cherished husband Thomas (himself an unsurpassed chronicler of empire and arboriculture). She is hugely missed by us all and her funeral service will be held at St Michael’s Church of Ireland in Castlepollard at 11am on Monday the 29th. Antony Farrell
Aug
22
2022
Lilliput Press, one of Ireland’s smallest but most prestigious publishing houses, is proud to present a compilation of some of our many literary event highlights throughout 2022 for Culture Night. A special video will go live here on this page at 6PM on 23 September 2022 – make sure to tune in for exciting insights into the world of books from some very talented authors and guest speakers!