EdithMartina Devlin, an award winning columnist for the Irish Independent and podcaster for Dublin City of Literature #CityofBooks, has delivered a new novel based on the life of Edith Somerville of Somerville and Ross fame authors of The Irish R. M. In this work, set during the turbulent period of Irish Independence 192122, Somerville finds herself at a crossroads. Her position as a member of the Ascendancy is perilous as she struggles to keep her family

Amongst many other revelations in the book is a hitherto unknown connection between the poet and Patricia Avis

to a deadly moment on a Malayan airstrip

compassion

Desmond Leslie has never before been the subject of a biography

This remarkable historical record pieced together the neglected shards of Ireland's recent past and imparts a necessary understanding of the political process that saw Sinn Fein's electoral victory in 1918 and the founding of the Irish Free State

homosexuality and alcoholism fuelled his fictions

poignant and sexually buoyant

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

and one on Sunday

Berlin and Barcelona

word and image relationships

stimulating work of instruction