Thirsty Ghosts: A NovelEmer Martins is a radical, vital voice in Irish writing, as she challenges the history of silence, institutional lies, evasion and the mistreatment of women across mid to late twentieth century Ireland. Two families inhabit this immersive polyvocal work, an intergenerational saga announced with The Cruelty Men (2018) and continued here as punk rockers and Magdalene laundries spiral into a post colonial Ireland still haunted by its tribal undertow.

believing that only the past is knowable

The articles reveal a serious writer capable of great comic set pieces and amusing yarns as well as thoughtful reflections on cultural and historical issues

Lyons’ first novel gives voice to a female character on her fraught journey into adulthood and charts her evolution as an artist

a wondrous ‘lost treasure’ of literature now presented to its reading public

Grim Fandango

sometimes in a cross-community effort with fellow poets of the other faith

take the form of a dinnseanchas and feature throughout

The O’Brien play

is divided into a number of sections: Academic Essays

the book’s two halves are underpinned by the author’s personal mission to reveal the man behind the mask

where Duiske stream joins the river Barrow at Graiguenamanagh

and each new gathering enlarges upon his reputation as one of Ireland’s most fearless and invigorating writers