The Atlantean IrishIrish identity is best understood from a maritime perspective. For eight millennia the island has been a haven for explorers, settlers, colonists, navigators, pirates and traders, absorbing goods and peoples from all points of the compass. The reduction of the islanders to the exclusive category Celtic has persisted for three hundred years, and is here rejected as impossibly narrow. No classical author ever described Irelands inhabitants as Celts, and

appeared in 1894

Winner of the John McGahern Prize

They partake of Benedict Kiely

‘Listening to the Landscape’ takes for its theme the Irish language and placenames as an emanation of the land

'I was hugely impressed by The Spinning Heart

extending back to Neolithic times

The author uses the vast resources of newly digitised French newspapers and journals to track the celebrated Gonne and her beloved Lucien Millevoye through the sensational turmoil of the Third Republic in France and into the violent push for a republic in Ireland

touching us

prostitution

In Is That All There Is

translated by Kuno Meyer \n \nThis work

This edition will also include an illustrated essay on ÔThe publishing odyssey of The Ginger ManÕ by bibliographer and archivist Bill Dunn