Charlotte Brontë, who dazzled the world with some of literature's most vital and richly-drawn characters, spent her brief but extraordinary life in search of love. She eventually found it with Arthur Bell, a reserved yet passionate Irishman. After marrying, the pair honeymooned in Ireland - a glimmer of happiness in a life shadowed by tragedy.

That moment of joy was destined to be short-lived however, as Brontë died just nine months into their marriage. Her genius, and the aura of mystery surrounding her, meant she'd been mythologised even within her own lifetime - a process which only intensified after her death. Observed through the eyes of Mary Nicholls - who encountered Charlotte on that fateful journey to Ireland, and who went on to wed her widower Arthur - Charlotte is a story of three lives irrevocably intertwined. Bound by passion and obsession, friendship and loss, loyalty and deception - this a story of Brontë's short but pivotal time in Ireland as never before told.

Martina Devlin's enthralling new novel Charlotte weaves back and forth through Charlotte's life, reflecting on the myths built around her by those who knew her, those who thought they knew her, and those who longed to know her. Above all, this is a story of fiction: who creates it, who lives it, who owns it.

In the dusk hours of a November evening in 2020, James Crombie set out for the shore of Lough Ennell, Co. Westmeath with no goal except to find a brief reprieve from the chaos of modern life. One of Ireland's most lauded sports photographers, Crombie had spent months each year travelling the globe, snapping glimpses of sporting glory amid roaring crowds. Once the pandemic arrived however, he found himself suspended in an unfamiliar moment of stillness, where his focus could roam beyond the pitch. When a close friend came to him in a moment of grief, the pair made for the lake.

What Crombie found on the shore that evening - an undulating murmuration of starlings, dancing above the surface of the water - would change his life forever.

Desperate to capture the beauty of the murmurations, and to better understand this phenomenon and the surroundings of the lake itself, Crombie began a four-year journey, travelling to lake shore for over 100 days per year. In his efforts to capture the formations of the magical birds, Crombie managed to chart the stunning natural cycles of the lake and the surrounding countryside.

An incredible combination of narrative and photography, this is a book about one man's quest to capture the beauty of an Irish natural phenomenon, and about how our local environments harbour a wealth of beauty and complexity, if only we're able to look closely enough.

The book also features an introduction by pioneering ornithologist Seán Ronayne.

A striking debut novel from one of Ireland's most promising emerging talents

'Marries the cosmic nightmare of Darren Aronofsky's Mother! with the sociological portraits of Ken Loach. . . . I've never read anything quite like it' --Colin Walsh, author, Kala

Habitat follows seven people over the course of a week as their mid-century apartment building in Oslo inexplicably disappears. The web of neighbors is connected by family relations, long acquaintance, life-long feuds, and glimpses of each other across the communal garden. As they are each affected in different ways, they fail to grasp that this is a shared crisis. The neighbors, in turn, blame and reach out to each other, never seeing the full picture. Their age, profession, origin, and family status all affect how they respond to the crisis in their own apartment, and to what extent help and understanding is available to them. The building components give their own take on being used for the purposes of these people, their voices containing the longer perspective of materials that existed before the building, and which will survive in some form beyond its destruction.

This debut examines the evasive responses of these neighbors, their troubles and short-comings, and the lies they tell each other and themselves. Comparable to Kafka's Metamorphosis or Eugène Ionesqo's Rhinoceros in how people respond to an uncanny event, Shine has here written a parable perfectly fit for our uncertain times.

This handsome volume presents more than twenty images of book covers, poems and other works that reflect Sligo's presence in the work of W.B. Yeats and his family. Thoughtful reflections accompany the images, many of which are of first editions found in the ' Yeats in Sligo' collection at the Yeats Society. They invite us to experience Yeats's poetry as he wanted contemporary readers to receive it.
The beautiful Cuala Press editions in the Sligo collection are themselves works of art created by W.B.'s sister Elizabeth Yeats. Images of such precious artefacts found in this book are part of what Henry James called ' the visitable past' - a realm containing ' the fragrance of ... the poetry of the thing outlived and yet in which the precious element of closeness, telling so of connections but tasting so of differences, remains appreciable' .
The title of this book is a composite. The first element is the name of the poem in which Yeats declares that he lies ' Under Ben Bulben' in Drumcliffe churchyard. The second is ' The Metal Man', a figure on a beacon that guides ships to and from Sligo, who came to embody the Yeats siblings' memories of their childhood under his watchful eyes.
This small gem of a book will have a reach far beyond Sligo as an illuminating companion and delightful gift to all readers of Irish poetry.

Turtle Was Gone a Long Time: Horsehead Nebula Neighing, the second volume of a remarkable trilogy, continues John Moriarty's spiritual journey embarked upon in Crossing the Kedron. In a Prelude to Horsehead Nebula Neighing, the author poses two questions. Are we the iceberg into which the earth has crashed? Have we lost, or did we ever acquire, evolutionary legitimacy? Moriarty goes on to question the axioms and assumptions of the late twentieth century and to suggest other cosmologies, myths and metaphors through which we may 'walk beautifully upon the earth'. Mediated through poetry, philosophy and literature - from the sacred writings of Christian mystics to coffin texts of the Egyptians and cradle texts of the Navajo Indians - Moriarty transforms humanity's Pequod voyage of self-destruction into an Ishmaelite quest for Divine Ground. In his call for cultural regeneration, the author invokes alternative tongues, Native American and Hindu, shamanic north and classical south. Readings from Meister Eckhart, Malory and William Law, Pascal and Melville, Berkeley, Blake and Black Elk, Darwin and Nietzsche, the Bible, medieval morality plays and the Mandukya Upanishads guide us along ancestral trails in dialogue with 'the great tradition'. With exhilarating singularity of vision, Moriarty offers readers paradigms of co-creation and self-interrogation, and through a process of calling-to-witness makes manifest ways of being in the world.

In this volume of documentary photography by William Mundow, more than 50 black-and-white images of the West of Ireland from the 1960s are mirrored by the works of Irish poets chronicling the lost generations of Ireland. Themes of insularity, isolation and old age emerge from this haunting collection.
The work follows in the footsteps of the late Bill Doyle, concentrating on the art of portraiture. The images are presented in four categories, from west to east: Inishbofin Island, County Galway; Tory Island, County Donegal; Rural Ireland; and Dublin City. Topographical poems by the living and departed are scattered throughout, from Gerald Dawe to Patrick Kavanagh and Richard Murphy.

Flann O'Brien shot through with Guillermo del Toro. . . . A wild, magnificent book. --Sunday Business Post

To say Emer Martin's fifth novel is epic would be an understatement. --Sunday Independent

There is ambition and then there is the Great Irish Novel kind of ambition that is in Emer Martin's Thirsty Ghosts ... A fine balance of the savagely funny and heartbreaking. --Bookseller

Emer Martin is an original, radical and vital voice in Irish writing who challenges the history of silence, institutional lies, evasion and the mistreatment of women across mid twentieth-century Ireland.

Two families intertwine in this energetic new work, an epic intergenerational saga that began with The Cruelty Men (2018) and continues here as punk rockers and Catholic laundries collide and spiral forward into a post-colonial Ireland still haunted by history. Interweaving scenes from Ireland's mythological past, the Tudor plantations, the Magdalene laundries and the 1980s, The Thirsty Ghosts is epic in scope but intimate in focus.

The Lyons, professionals in a newly independent state, are attacked by paramilitaries in their family home in Tyrone. The displaced eccentric O'Conaills, traumatized by industrial schools and laundries, find themselves in leafy Dublin 4. There's a servant girl who meets Henry VIII, a Lithuanian Jewish family who become part of the fabric of Dublin, and a wild young girl who escapes the laundry only to stumble into a psycho pimp.

Related with dark humor and high literary style, The Thirsty Ghosts is a revelatory exploration of Ireland; its themes of power, class, fertility, violence and deep love are as universal as the old stories that illuminate the characters' lives.

Go on a journey with Robert O'Byrne as he brings fascinating Irish ruins to life.

Inspired by his passionate interest in Ireland's architectural heritage and concern for its preservation, in 2012 writer Robert O'Byrne created a blog called The Irish Aesthete. He subsequently moved onto other social media and now The Irish Aesthete is an established presence on Facebook, Twitter, and on YouTube where Robert started his own channel in 2020. The Irish Aesthete has also established a strong and ever-growing presence on Instagram where he has over 37,000 followers. Architects, designers, decorators and historians from around the world now come to The Irish Aesthete for information on Ireland's historic architecture.

Having never owned a camera, from the beginning Robert O'Byrne used his mobile phone, teaching himself how to make good pictures that would hold the attention of viewers. Since then, his photographs have received widespread acclaim and appeared on book covers, in magazine and newspaper articles and on many other sites.

To mark The Irish Aesthete's tenth anniversary in 2022, he presented a complete set of these images to the Irish Architectural Archive. Robert's collection of photographs, covering everything from grand country houses to ancient monasteries, now runs to over 100,000 images and covers all 32 counties in Ireland.

This new volume will contain over 160 of O'Byrne's own selection of his best work with photographs accompanied by descriptions and anecdotes.

Connections between the peoples of Ireland and Russia stretch back centuries, from the modern Post-Soviet period, through the turmoil of the twentieth century, and back deep into the foundations of the Romanov empire. In Angela Byrne's illuminating new work Anarchy and Authority, readers follow the Irish men and women who ventured forth into the Russian empire during the two long centuries from the reign of Peter the Great until the end of Romanov rule in the early twentieth century. Human connections, political intrigues, cultural influence and sweeping historical narratives are brought alive here through first-hand contemporary Irish accounts. This is the story of the island and the empire.

Through meticulous research, Byrne has unearthed firsthand writings and reports from Irish residents, travellers and migrants to Russia from that time, ranging from diplomats and governesses, to early tourists, travel writers, servants and even a revolutionary music-teacher. Military careers proved a continual channel of advancement for Irishmen through the eighteenth century, which brought them close to the sources of power. They and their families occupied privileged positions in society, benefitting from the imperial wars waged by the Russian state. Other Irish observers bore witness to the horrors of serfdom and the oppression of dissenting voices through exile, imprisonment without trial and forced labour in Siberia.

Anarchy and Authority brings to vivid life these Irish perspectives, opening an invaluable door into the history of Ireland's relationship with Russia on a human level.

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. The novel follows Deano, a weed-smoking hurling star, living with his aunt in an about-to-be-demolished flat; Hamza, a Pakistani Muslim atheist and precocious academic, who sells his ADHD drugs to the kids in a private school; Oisí n, empathetic and iron-willed, who has begun to see his dead brother at the end of his bed; Congolese nature lover, Benit, who just wants to relax and hurl with the lads; Karl, a maybe-gay fashionista, dreaming of something better while immersing himself in his art. Bound by friendship, place and the memories of those who've died too soon, these young men grapple with race, class, sex, parties, poverty, violence and Garda harassment, all while wondering what it means to be a man in twenty-first century Ireland.

The definitive study of the questions around the future of Northern Irish politics, including the idea of reunification.

Focusing on the topics of the Northern Ireland Protocol, the Good Friday Agreement, Brexit, Unionism, Nationalism, the economics of potential reunification or continued partition, and the wide range of Northern Irish identities, this work encompasses the most up-to-date and considered review of political actions so far.

A must-read for those interested in the future of Northern Ireland.

The four volumes of spokesman and strategist Alastair Campbell's diaries were a publishing sensation.As British Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-hand man, former journalist and political analyst Campbell played a critical role in every aspect of New Labour strategy. Charting the course of British government from July 1994 to August 2003, Campbell s relentlessly honest, often controversial, occasionally brutal, and always razor-sharp commentary has drawn critical acclaim from around the world.

This newly edited one-volume edition focuses on one of the Blair government's biggest successes, the Northern Ireland peace process. From the high of the Good Friday agreement and devolution in Northern Ireland, to the deadly lows of the Manchester and Omagh bombings, The Irish Diaries explores the tensions, all-night talks, adrenalin-fuelled negotiations and heady personality clashes that are such an intrinsic part of democratic politics. Newly annotated and fully revised by Campbell and featuring commissioned material by key figures in the Irish peace process such as former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell himself, The Irish Diaries is invaluable for readers with an interest in Irish history.

A revised illustrated edition of this landmark 1988 biography of one of the great women of Irish history, and Europe's first elected female politician.

Wonderful novel Vividly drawn characters, an intriguing mystery, and humorous and sparkling dialogue reminiscent of Heyer, as if the author was laughing as she wrote it. Fans of traditional Regency romance will love this book

Camille Elliot, Author, Prelude for a Lord

One young woman seeking her father and fortune...

One proper gentleman wishing to avoid scandal and bother...

One determined matron trying to keep both from the truth:

Can Miss Fanshawe's fortune ever be secured? And how can she ever hope to win his love?

Miss Frances Fanshawe's past is shrouded in mystery. Raised genteelly as an heiress to a fortune, she is forced to question everything after her mother dies and leaves only a single clue to the money. Unless she can locate her father or otherwise prove her heritage, not only the fortune but her very respectability is at stake.

In line for a baronetcy, Sebastian Arundell has no time for sorting out questionable tangles for young women with dubious histories. No matter if they are young, appealing, and have ridiculously large eyes to melt a man's heart. But when it becomes apparent that other people are after Frannie's supposed fortune, he is drawn to investigate. As the search deepens, Frannie falls in love with handsome, proper Sebastian. But if it only proves what he suspects-that she's an illegitimate pauper-will all hope to win his heart be lost?

Special Features:

- Timeline

- Mayfair Map (the Arundells' Home)

- Bonus Preview, Before the Season Ends

- Bonus Preview, Forever, Lately: A Regency Time Travel Romance

- Glossary of Regency Terms

Burkard sweeps us into the world of Regency England with rich detail and the language of the day. Highly enjoyable

Kathleen Rouser, Author, Rumors and Promises

A delightul read And the sweet romance Call it exquisite torture...*sigh* ...you'll just have to read it for yourself.

Nicole Sager, Author, The Heart of Arcrea

Well done-a cracking read Was great for lockdown too.

Charlotte H., UK Reader

Whoa. This is a Dickensian Regency that will have you learning as you laugh, wonder, and swoon with the story.

Becky Lewis, VINE VOICE

Burkard's tale is off and running with Frannie's future hanging in the balance. Readers of Burkard know she immerses you in the Regency. She writes with relaxed panache, and the comic moments, of which there are plenty, will make you laugh out loud.

L.K. Simonds, Author, All In

Reminded me very much of a Georgette Heyer novel, and I couldn't put it down until the conflict was resolved....Words fail me as to how much I loved Sebastian's character. If only he was real...

Brittany A. Searfoss, Reviewer

A refreshingly clean Regency romance, complete with an antagonist you LOVE to hate. A delight from beginning to end. The only drawback was that in ended too soon

R. Kaye, Reviewer

Kinship is a unique undertaking in the artistic career of one of Ireland's leading artists. This book, and the artistic project it is part of, charts the act of returning a mummified body of a man to Egypt. This book, produced in conjunction with Dorothy Cross's newest artistic project, charts this unique journey, drawing in new writings from some of the best contemporary writers from around the world, who write on and around the themes of the Kinship project - migration, home, refuge, crisis and the process of return.

In 2019 Dorothy Cross recalled a story of an Egyptian mummy that had been hidden away in the archives of the anatomy department at University College Cork for decades. For Cross, the next step she needed to take seemed as natural to her as any of her work - the mummy and sarcophagus must be returned to its homeland. In beginning this act, and this journey, Cross set out to create an event across place and time, with music, literature and celebration - an act of kinship.

As the body returns to its home across the Mediterranean, the Kinship project would again draw attention to the present-day plight of thousands of migrants who, fleeing their countries, attempt to cross those same waters.

Featuring writing by: Max Porter, Sonali Deraniyagala, Edmund de Waal, John Fitzgerald with Nadra Mabrouk, President Michael D. Higgins, Rosemary Mahoney, Hisham Matar, Philippe Sands, Ahdaf Soueif and Dorothy Cross.

NEW UPDATED EDITION!

Gripping! Doug Erlandson, Top 50 Amazon Reviewer

Only the resilient can survive-but at what cost?

An EMP thrust the United States into a dark age, and now Andrea, Lexie, and Sarah must survive as society collapses and marauding gangs increase. The appearance of FEMA camps might be reassuring except the military is forcing civilians into them. Those who've survived the first months are nearing the end of their resources or wits. Only faith can carry the girls and their families through growing dangers. Choices must be made-but at what cost?

Intense! L.R. Burkard is back with the next tale in her dystopian series, and the bar of excellence is raised to new heights with this top-quality literary offering!
Deena Peterson, Reviewer

READERS SAY:
FAVORITE AUTHOR L.R. Burkard is quickly becoming my favorite author. I know I can always trust her books to be free of unnecessary foul language and a narrative that is in poor taste. But now she has proven herself also to be an extraordinary storyteller. In fact, every book she has written has been a page-turner. This is a true gift!
Diane Archibald, Reviewer

EXCITING PAGE TURNER! This second book is even more exciting and thought-provoking than the first!
D.E.Taylor, Amazon Reviewer

RIP-ROARING READ is Just as riveting as the first one. While I'm usually a historical romance reader, I'm finding dystopian novels to be a fun read too, especially these two books by L. R. Burkard. ..Pick up a copy. You won't regret it.
Jodie A. Wolfe, Blogger, Reviewer

BURKARD RATCHETS UP THE TENSION After reading this series you will never look at a simple electricity interruption the same way!
Teresa Slack, Author

AMAZING MUST READ I agreed to read this book and post a review. I didn't know what I was getting myself in for. I LOVED THIS BOOK!!! I couldn't put it down. I was sneaking it at work and am so very sad now that it is done. I can't wait for the next one.

TRUE TO LIFE SURVIVAL STORY Oh My Goodness! Resilience was another page-turner. I was up all night finishing it.
JR Reavis, Amazon Reviewer

PULSE EFFEX has become my favorite YA trilogy. I can't wait for the third book in a series I will read again and again.
Judith Blevins, Amazon Reviewer

FIVE STARS Great fast reading and kept my interest.

A GREAT SEQUEL Don't want the journey to end!
John Joerg

***** GRIPPING! I had trouble putting it down!
***** AS GOOD, if not better than PULSE!
***** GRIPPING. A great read! Even if you're a newbie to Dystopian fiction, you'll love it!
***** FIVE STARS Great fast reading and kept my interest.

In an essay from 1996 collecton Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and Other Essays, Tim Robinson noted that 'we are spatial entities, which is even more basic than being physical entities, subject to the law of gravity'. In this dazzling new series of essays Robinson examines aspects of his own 'time in space', moving from his childhood in Yorkshire, to a deadly moment on a Malayan airstrip, a pilgrimage to the midnight sun, adventures in the art-worlds of Istanbul, Vienna and London, and finally to the spaces of the West of Ireland which he has interpreted with incomparable attention and fidelity over the past three decades. The essays explore problems in mathematics and mapping, the human implications of the arc of a missile the feelings of a sceptic upon approaching divine ground in the company of a mystic, and other encounters of the empirical with the numinous: Robinson has an uncanny capacity to write convincingly about both. The sequence ends with an angry outburst against the continuing destruction of the Irish countryside and a moving hymn to the delights of his own house and garden at the edge of the sea in Connemara. My Time in Space is the latest instalment in a literary corpus of singular integrity and endless fascination.

She never wanted to be a deceiver...

Emma Benson, a young working girl, is obsessed with worries when she discovers her boyfriend works for the Mob. With her and her family's lives at stake, she is forced to try and con a billionaire into forking over big bucks. When she falls for the guy and can't go through with the plan, all hope seems lost. But can a fairytale ending--with a little help from God--save the day?

Romantic suspense mixed with fairy-tale charm and capped off with Burkard's signature happy ending make this one you don't want to miss!

Teresa Slack, Author, Willow Wood Brides Series