In this first English-language edition of an Irish-language classic, Seosamh Mac Grianna “writes with searing honesty on topics that engage or provoke him” in his travels in Dublin city, and Wales.
“Like dogtooth dresses, white-stripe boating blazers or block-heeled shoes, this book is sure to appeal to those who have lived, loved and revived the Dublin mod scene.”
In this futuristic imagining of an afflicted and dystopian Ireland, rising sea levels have taken vast swathes of the midlands and brought on a new way of life.
“My dad and his friends formed a football team called the Dorset Boys in the seventies,” says Patrick Osborne. This was an inspiration for his book, Baxter’s Boys.
“The Ireland that was promised to these young men is not the one that they have found themselves in. This book tells the tale of aging men in a youthful nation state.”
“What We Don’t Talk About is an essential read. It tackles nuanced racial moments that give context to the wider topics we’re all trying to take head on.”
This anthology of poetry by working-class people from contemporary Ireland has many good points, but is unfortunately short of the voices of migrants, our reviewer writes.
The collection is made of poetry and romance. It’s one of those special books that awakens the imagination and rekindles the flame of stories once heard as a child.
Part memoir, part dictionary, part antiracist treatise, this book takes readers through Kendi’s personal antiracist journey, arriving at his current understanding.
