A meditation on the theme of betrayal stars Judas Iscariot, who, in contrast to his biblical image as a scapegoat and outcast, reveals himself to be a trickster and adulterer.
Intended as a primer for students and a concise timeline and reference for historians, the second edition of this history of organized labor in Ireland is revised and expanded to include the period fr
Fanning (social science, University College Dublin) collects 30 essays and articles from the Irish journal Studies, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the journal. Written over the entire life
During an outbreak of meningitis in Glasgow in the 1920s Ian Niall was sent to live with his grandparents, then tenants of North Clutag Farm, Galloway, in south-west Scotland. It was another world com
Throw in the vowels is a new retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the Iris
A young historian follows the trial of his girlfriend's father at the International Court. The prosecution argues that he played a part in the death of a Muslim family during the Balkan civil war. As
When John Walsh arrived at the Cenacolo community at Knock, he had no options left. He shares how God saved him from heroin addiction. Alice Cairns experienced every mother's nightmare when her teenag
Ovid's poems voiced by female figures from Greek and Roman myth in new 21st century versions, with a cast of women who are brave, bitchy, sexy, suicidal, horrifying, heartbreaking and surprisingly mod
Ahren Warner's second collection of poems opens with the sequence Lutce, te amo: a raw paean to the Paris it inhabits that offers both adoration and horror in equal measure. Elsewhere, London 'licks a
In his new collection of poetry, 'Travel Light Travel Dark', John Agard casts his unique spin on the intermingling strands of British history, and leads us into metaphysical and political waters. Cros
