The Appleman and the PoetThe Appleman and the Poet, the fifth volume of Hubert Butlers essays, completes a thirty year odyssey embarked upon by The Lilliput Press in 1984. Our flagship author has finally come home, welcomed by Fintan OToole in his foreword: One of the great joys of these essays is the discovery of sentences as sharp and lithe as a Toledo rapier. Beginning with Russian Dispatches 19321946, Butler gives an evocative description from the viewpoint of a bourgeois

and the security of regular money in their pockets

\n \nLate in 2008 Barry was diagnosed with motor neurone disease

Most of this literature has perished

His delight in words

Constance Markievicz

psychological acuity and a fearless eye for the erotic and the grotesque

Here are the Young Men portrays a chilling spiritual fallout

Flann O’Brien locates his insect drama in Dublin

This finely wrought debut novel is a potent revelation of how lives converge in the passage between trauma and resolution

vulnerability and refusal ‘to serve’ expose the hypocrisies of a society built on fear

Road to Repeal: 50 Years of Struggle in Ireland for Contraception and Abortionopens in 1970 when the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement burst onto the streets and screens of a society bewildered by women demanding equal status in the home and in the workplace

This stark