Memoirs of a Wild GooseHighly personal memoirs by Irish diplomats are rare, and those with the quality of fictional autobiography by George Moore, Brendan Behan and Francis Stuart are rarer still. These remarkable reminisces of Charles Bewley, a man who served his country in Germany and Italy during the first two decades of Irelands independence tell the story of an exotic individual cast by the oddest circumstances into a minor role on the world stage. Writing with mordant

alive to the idiosyncrasies and vagaries of his profession

In ‘Bronagh’

poor Ireland

company finances and tonnage carried down the years

' \n \nIn this stunning fictional dŽbut Kelly Sullivan explores of the inner life of Grace: mother

Land matters permeate all our lives

Synge are anatomized

A fascinating portrait of a neglected poet and memoirist whose colourful and complicated life brought her into contact with some of the major literary figures of early twentieth-century Ireland

Detailed land acquisition records and newspaper documentation afford a fascinating glimpse into what must have been an enormous upheaval for two hundred families involved

come the arrival of leaves and sun and buttercup blaze

O’Rawe combines a moving and courageous personal record with first-hand documentation

others have chosen to live and work in ways that are experimental