by Joseph M. Hassett | Lilliput Press 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 ..read more

Harpy – A Manifesto for Childfree Women – Icon Books Book Launch May 9th, 2024 International Anthony Burgess Foundation3 Cambridge Street Manchester M1 5BY United Kingdom Come join writer and academic Caroline Magennis in conversation with Claire Lynch (author of Small, Professor at Brunel University) to celebrate the launch of her book Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women (Icon Books, 2023). In this ..read more

Author Darragh Gannon will be in Conversation with Professor Roy Foster, talking about his new bookConflict, Diaspora, and Empire: Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922 Wed 29 November – Wed 29 November 2023 Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith | Doors 6.30pm, Starts 7.00pm Tickets: £7, Series Ticket £25 CLICK HERE The actions of Irish nationalists in Britain are often characterised as a ..read more

For over five decades, Evelyn Conlon has revelled in the secret joy of writing and in the power of a well-crafted story. Hers has been a life of literature, travel and of challenging authority, including campaigning for women’s reproductive rights in Ireland and for an end to the death penalty in the US. Reading Rites offers the reader an unflinching ..read more

Edited By Ian Hickey, Ellen Howley 6-8pm May 25th 2023 Belvedere Library DCU St.Patrick’s Campus Dr Tom Walker (TCD) will launch the book RSVPs can be sent to susan.byrne@dcu.ie  Click here to order the book Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking examines Seamus Heaney’s poetic engagement with myth from his earliest work to the posthumous publication of Aeneid Book VI. The essays explore the ..read more

Cork University Press Sexual/Liberation by Michael G. Cronin launched by Ailbhe Smyth Feminist and Activist Thursday 1 December 2022 at 6pm Illuminations Gallery Iontas Building (North Campus) Maynooth University, Co. Kildare Sexual/Liberation addresses the paradoxes of sexual freedom in contemporary neoliberal Ireland. It invites readers to imagine a revolutionary form of sexual liberation beyond the present objective of achieving equality ..read more

Mary M. Burke’s Oxford University Press book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History, was published in the UK in December 2022 and the US in March 2023. The US release will be launched by Myles Dungan at the national ACIS conference at San José State University, California, which will run from June 7-10, 2023.  Race, Politics, and Irish America uses the ..read more

By Mary M Burke Published by Oxford University Press Race, Politics, and Irish America examines the words and lives of Black and white American and Irish-American writers, performers, and politicians – from Andrew Jackson and Frank Yerby, to Grace Kelly and Rihanna – to illuminate centuries of Irish presence in the Americas, from transportees to the seventeenth-century Caribbean, to eighteenth-century Ulster ..read more

The 2023 issue of Irish Archives: ” Sources and Legacies of the Decade of Centenaries” will be launched by Dr Maurice Manning, Chair of The Expert Advisory Group on Centenary Commemorations, on 10 October at National University of Ireland (NUI), Merrion Square, Dublin 2 at 6pm. Supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of ..read more

The James Joyce Centre is delighted to invite you to the launch of Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms by Richard Barlow. Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:30 IST James Joyce Centre 35 North Great George’s Street D01 WK44 Dublin 1 The book examines the various ways Irish and Scottish literatures have influenced each other from the 1760s to ..read more