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In 1919, the fledgling Irish State sent envoys out into the world to represent the Irish people and assert our independent voice. Since then, Irish diplomats and their families have been inspired to give creative voice to their experiences. The arts of diplomacy and of writing are close companions – both appreciate the importance of words and the necessity of imagination. For things to happen we must first imagine them; this holds true for peace as much as poetry.This volume comprises a selection of personal, creative and unofficial writing by Irish diplomats and their families. Part of the Department of Foreign Affairs centenary programme, the collection is a tribute to the creative power of language and the imaginative bonds that connect us. We are all strangers – here, there and everywhere – but wherever we go, we also find ourselves among friends. Between these pages, encounter a century of familiar names and new companions.

Award-winning author Pádraig Ó Gallachóir presents two original short stories of the supernatural. A suspicious husband in Galway engages in black magic with chilling effects, two young friends on a holiday to Porto in Portugal encounter the macabre face to face. Versions in English are translated by the author.

A brilliant collection of short stories about life on the rough side of contemporary Ireland. His stories are based in Galway, Ireland.

The author explores Brian Merriman's famous poem, The Midnight Court, a classic of Irish literature.

Celia de Freine is a poet, playwright and screenwriter who writes in Irish and English. This is a collection of her Irish plays.

A legendary animal, the Sasquatch is hunted by many but seen by very few. These philosophical reflections about the disappearance of species, both real and imagined, can also be read as a dirge for a species, culture, or language in irreversible decline.

A new collection of poetry by one of Ireland’s leading voices is a cause for celebration, and in this stunning collection Ó Searcaigh demonstrates that he has his finger of the pulse of the modern Gaelic poetic consciousness

Transitions of many kinds - in relationships, in parenthood, in aging, and in the dizzying speed of digital and technological developments - are at the heart of this new poetry collection by Cullen. Throughout, she imbues a sense of the animal and the divine with poems that grapple with the corporeality of changes and the illumination of love that evolves over time.

This inspiring collection of essays covers a broad range of topics: the passing of Seamus Heaney, meeting William Trevor, the Bayno (The history of the Iveagh Trust), being crowned Miss Mod in the 1970s in a dance hall in County Offaly, and travels in the Alps, among a host of others.

In this wide-ranging bilingual collection, Ní Ghallchóir’s poetry is translated by such leading writers as Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Joan Newmann, Kate Newmann, Frank Sewell, Celia de Fréine, and Gabriel Rosenstock.

Staying Thin for Daddy is the debut English-language short story collection from Brennan, one of Ireland’s leading writers in both the Irish and English languages. The book was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Collection Award.

Gathering together poems by over fifty poets, Berryman’s Fate is at once a testament to John Berryman’s living presence in contemporary poetic culture and a gift on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. Contributors include Paul Muldoon, John Montague, Paula Meehan, and Martin Dyar.

This deeply moving debut collection is where poetry and history meet. Connie Roberts recounts her childhood in one of Ireland's most notorious industrial schools, coming to terms with this experience and examining the roles played by those around her. A poetic bildungsroman, we follow her life from orphanage to adulthood and work where she looks back without sentimentality and profound brutality.

In Opening Time there is a sense of a life richly lived and imaginatively examined. Time in both historical and personal terms is central to these poems that meditate on life, creation, and continuity. Delap is an experienced sailor, and the sea is ever present. The insights of a lone sailor, especially along the west coast of Ireland, are presented within a multigenerational family context and an informed historical perspective.SweeneyThese weeks of Aprilmay spring to life rinsed and over-rung by song.Blackbirds are calling everywherein more than thirteen ways.It cannot last. YesterdayI dreamt glad thoughts,but when I came to speak them,birdsong came from my mouth.Mine, but sweeter, more truethan any of my words.

A recent widow seeks the services of a psychic, two children are placed in a witness protection program, a young woman is discovered hiding in a garden shed, and a doctor suddenly disappears. The characters in Taylor’s debut collection of short stories inhabit worlds as familiar as your local restaurant and as strange as a locked ward in a psychiatric hospital. These stories take the reader on a dark but ultimately redemptive ride.

An Irish language textSet in the early 1920s in County Kerry during the Civil War, this play tells the story of the Dillon family, who give refuge to Republican soldiers. Things get more complicated when a Free State soldier comes to them for refuge and the daughters fall in love with him.

In this second collection from the young Galway poet and farmer, themes of birth, personal development and death run through the poems. There is also an autobiographical strand, with poems that spawn from within a working farm, across cultural divides to the intimacy of unorthodox relationships.

The second poetry collection from acclaimed Dublin writer Shirley McClure, Stone Dress is a homage to the female body, in its strengths and vulnerabilities, its beauty and its blemishes.

Honest Walls is the debut poetry collection from Dublin-born writer, filmmaker, and actor Luke Morgan. Whether he is imagining a café in liftoff or playing with a skeleton in a science lab, the author connects us to the moment, maps it, brings us beyond it, and changes the way we look at the world.

In this collection, historians and activists pay tribute to Hackett by bringing to light the littleknown history of Irish women’s political, militant, and trade union activism.