HopdanceIn a great Irish tradition of autobiographical fiction that includes James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Seamus Deanes Reading in the Dark, Parkers poignant novel depicts events surrounding the amputation of his left leg as a nineteen year old university student. Masterful vignettes present the callow protagonists life before, during and after this ordeal. Belfast, drear locus of rain and despond, contributes to the heaviness at

revealing a highly intelligent and culturally sophisticated poet

and the impact it had on his writing and career

sharp sense of place and bursting capsules of character we have come to expect

William King pierces the surface of this era of glitz and easy credit

Winner of the John McGahern Prize

Dublin 1660-1860 and The Volunteer Earl

This lavishly illustrated volume contains a selection of the papers presented at a symposium on the Fagel Collection

Sarah Benson

These places and people remained with O’Malley in his private writing

the mill owner James Comerford

these pages uncover a country layered with memory: grand houses and fragile abbeys

" ÑThomas J