Turtle Was Gone a Long Time, Volume One: Crossing the Kedron*Please note that this first edition (1991) has minor signs of foxing The title derives from the diver myth found in Siberia and North America, in particular among the Maidu Indians of California. Diving to the floor of the abyss to find intuitions of the world, the work is a mystical quest, from form to void and back, and enacts one of the central themes of European literature, the journey from Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained. In a century in

and Owen Dudley Edwards

richly illustrated guidebook

usually in the course of a single night

she returns alone to her house

Dempsey finds a bizarre link between Bosani and Caravaggio’s masterpiece

underpin the writings of this chronicler and observer of Ireland’s recent past

Locked in his tower amid the violence and uncertainty of civil war

shortly after Beckett’s death

poignant and sexually buoyant

Despite a modest start in life

from the heady days of Grattan’s Parliament

The Pilgrimage returns as a startlingly modern portrait of desire