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The Conversation

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THE CONVERSATION is a collaborative poetry collection by Jo Burns and Emily Cooper which imagines a conversation held between Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar and Françoise Gilot, three of Picasso’s lovers...

Cork Stories

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Cork Stories, edited by Madeleine D’Arcy and Laura McKenna, is a collection of short fiction set throughout the neighbourhoods of Cork city and county by writers who live or have...
Three Houses in Rome - Orfhlaith Foyle

Three Houses in Rome

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An older sister gathers her demons and journeys to Lorient, seeking closure with her estranged brother and his over-protective wife; a group of people holidaying in ‘Three Houses in Rome’...
These are my people, Breda Wall Ryan

These are My People

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These are My People, the third collection by award-winning poet Breda Wall Ryan, explores themes of family ties, relationships and one’s connection to the natural world. In it the poet...

Night Music

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In the wilds of Connemara, a lone cowboy exacts a terrible revenge; an abused brother and sister settle scores with their ‘ol’ unkie’; a grieving man steers his river-craft towards...
Some of these stories are true Poetry collection Mauruce Devitt

Some of These Stories are True

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Some of These Stories are True seek out the mystery in everyday urban life in a conversational tone, often with dark humour, exploring hints of the extraordinary in the quotidian,...
The Cloud Architect By Matthew Geden By Doire Press

The Cloud Architect

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The Cloud Architect is the third full-length poetry collection by Kinsale-based poet Matthew Geden. This new collection looks at the world through the smoke and mirrors which cloud and hide...
The Weather-Beaten Scarecrow By James Finnegan By Doire Press

The Weather-Beaten Scarecrow

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In The Weather-Beaten Scarecrow, the second poetry collection by James Finnegan, he focuses on place, history, nature, movement, animal, landscape, humanity and what it means to have clear space for...
The Heart and the Arrow By Leland Bardwell

The Heart and the Arrow

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The Heart and the Arrow includes the novella ‘All Those Men’, a tale of women surviving together in a dystopian future where food is collected at central points organised by...
Nithy Kasa Palm Wine Tapper and The Boy at Jericho

Palm Wine Tapper and The Boy at Jericho

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Palm Wine Tapper and The Boy at Jericho is the diary of a woman’s journey from the nature-rich countryside and the red-sanded desert to the Lego-like city. Written in the...
Stephanie Conn Off-Kilter Book

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Off-Kilter sees the environment and the body under pressure—the landscape burns, the body sickens, relationships fracture. Threat looms large, yet these poems also chart a tentative path through the darkness....
Nandi Jola Home is Neither Here Nor There

Home is Neither Here Nor There

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Home is Neither Here Nor There, the debut poetry collection by Nandi Jola, explores the themes of Home, migration and the fragile relationships between human, animals and morals. As a...
Smugglers in the Underground Hug Trade A Journal of the Plague Year Poetry book by William Wall Published by Doire Press
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Smugglers in the Underground Hug Trade: A Journal of the Plague Year

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Surprised by how few literary references exist for the Spanish ‘Flu pandemic of 1918/19, William Wall made a conscious decision to document the experience of ‘the strangest year we have...
Liberty Terrace Short fiction Book by Madeleine D’Arcy Published by Doire Press

Liberty Terrace

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Liberty Terrace features a bevy of characters who reside in a fictional area of Cork City in the period 2016 to 2020. The inhabitants of Liberty Terrace come and go,...
Liffey Sequence Poetry Book by David Butler Published by Doire Press

Liffey Sequence

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Liffey Sequence explores pressing issues of identity, ecology and social exclusion. This new three-part collection by the award-winning Bray-based writer includes the title eleven-poem sequence, which examines themes such as...
Riptide Poetry Book by Amanda Bell published by Doire Press

Riptide

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Riptide explores the zeitgeist using the art of Edvard Munch as a counterpoint, delving into the ecological and spiritual anguish informing his paintings, finding parallels in the world we live...
Age of the Microwave Dinner Colin Hassard

Age of the Microwave Dinner

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Age of the Microwave Dinner explores where we are as a society, along with universal themes of heartbreak, family, relationships, and death. Renowned for his thought-provoking work, these poems are...
Bone House Mpyra Donaldson

Bone House

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Moyra Donaldson’s Bone House is furious in its range, depth and grief. It is the work of a poet fully alive to the moments of pure light ‘before the darkness...
Empty House Poetry & Prose on the climate crisis
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Empty House

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Empty House is a multi-genre anthology of Irish and international writing responding to the climate crisis. The leading challenge facing our world today, here writers share pieces that address what...
Lifestyle Choice Short Fiction by Rosemary Jenkinson published by Doire Press

Lifestyle Choice 10mg

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Lifestyle Choice 10mg is a collection of Belfast short stories that wittily deals with relationships in contemporary society as well as the repercussions of the Troubles on its latter-day residents.
Galway Stories 2020 Short Fiction by Lisa Frank & Alan McMonagle published by Doire Press
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Galway Stories: 2020

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Galway Stories: 2020 is a collection of short fiction set throughout the neighbourhoods of the city and county, by writers who live, have lived, or who have a strong connection...
In the Museum of Misremembered Things Poetry Book by Linda McKenna published by Doire Press

In the Museum of Misremembered Things

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The poems in In the Museum of Misremembered Things revolve around the local, the historic and the mythic. Linda McKenna’s poems are based around historical events and themes with a...
Almost the Same Blue Short Fiction Book by John O'Donnell published by Doire Press

Almost the Same Blue

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Almost The Same Blue is the first collection of short stories from the double Hennessy Award winning writer John O’Donnell. Murder, lust, greed, and betrayal are just some of the...
Mndev Poetry Book by Dimitra Xidous published by Doire Press
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Mηδέv / Oὐδέν

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Μηδέν | Oὐδέν is a collection that turns, returns and turns on language. Zeroing in on grief, memory and fucking, Xidous plays with images and the space between them. Each...
Revolutions of Humming Things Poetry Book by Aoife Reilly published by Doire Press

Revolutions of Humming Things

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Revolutions of Humming Things explores a sense of belonging and home in a contemporary Ireland in a state of flux.
Belfast Stories Short Stories Fiction by Paul McVeigh & Lisa Frank published by Doire Press

Belfast Stories

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Belfast Stories is a collection of short fiction set throughout the neighbourhoods of the city, written by writers— both established and emerging—who live, have lived, or who have a strong...
Carnivorous Poerty Book by Moyra Donaldson published by Doire Press

Carnivorous

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Drawing on myth, nature and memory, the poems in Carnivorous speak of the extraordinary in the ordinary. Fluidity of self and of time, and evocation of the natural world, our...
Rules of Engagement Poetry Book by Michael J. Whelan published by Doire Press

Rules of Engagement

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On the centenary of the Great War and the Irish Revolution, Rules of Engagement explores an Irish soldier-poet’s search for truth and meaning, his efforts to reconcile his place in...
An Experience on the Tongue Poetry Book by Glen Wilson published by Doire Press

An Experience on the Tongue

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An Experience on the Tongue bristles with vivid imagery and candid voices. Various threads weave throughout as we are deftly lead through changing landscapes by a diverse cast of characters...
Conditional Perfect Poetry Book by Emily Cullen published by Doire Press

Conditional Perfect

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It aims to achieve a fuller understanding of the physics that lies within the realm of ordinary experience and to find continuities between themes of motherhood, family, science and technology...
Ah, Men! Poetry Book by Simon Lewis published by Doire Press

Ah, Men!

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In Ah, Men! Lewis considers what it means to be male in 21st century Ireland.
Catholic Boy Short Fiction Book by Rosemary Jenkinson published by Doire Press

Catholic Boy

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Catholic Boy is a collection of contemporary short stories, set mainly in Belfast, but also abroad. Some stories are witty but all make serious points about our current society.
Mosaics from the Map Poetry Booky by Robyn Rowland published by Doire Press

Mosaics from the Map

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Mosaics from the Map draws on historical links between countries to explore war and change through personal story, making history intimate. Alcock and Brown, as well as Marconi feature in...
Growing Up in Colour Poetry Book by Maurice Devitt published by Doire Press

Growing Up in Colour

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Growing up in Colour articulates the silence and strangeness of the familiar and inhabits the shadowy terrain of growing up in a fast-changing Ireland, of what happened and what might...
The Potter's Book poetry book by Louis Mulcahy publisher Doire Press

The Potter’s Book

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This fourth collection from Louis Mulcahy reflects on fifty years working in clay. It ranges from the classic pots of the Chinese Sung Dynasty through those of the Japanese. Tea...
Furey Poetry by James Martyn Joyce

Furey

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Furey is Everyman, conflicted, childish, narrow, thwarted and afraid. He’s angry at life, both his own and others’. He suffers fools very gladly, hunts life and often gets lost in...
Raven Mother Poetry Book by Breda Wall Ryan published by Doire Press

Raven Mothers

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Describing and reflecting on home, habitat, and environment, the poems traverse the boundaries of the surreal, mining the realms of historical and personal myth, to pose coherent questions.
Island Poetry Book by Stephanie Conn published by Doire Press

Island

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Island takes its inspiration from the poet’s ancestors, who lived their lives, farming and fishing on Copeland Island off the County Down coast.
Milling the Air Poetry Book by Susan Lindsay published by Doire Press

Milling The Air

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Starting with windmills, Milling the Air takes a slant look at the energy of airwaves, the air we breathe.
This Cruel Station Short Fiction by Martin Malone published by Doire Press

This Cruel Station

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The stories in This Cruel Station explore what it is like to be Irish — and new Irish — in today’s society. Inspired by his observations and interactions with recently-arrived...
Bank Holiday Hurricane Short Fiction Book by Kelly Creighton published by Doire Press

Bank Holiday Hurricane

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Bank Holiday Hurricane focuses on dislocation, disenchantment and second chances, told through linked stories set in and around a Northern Irish town, and further afield.
This Little World Poetry by Karen J. McDonnell Published by Doire Press

This Little World

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This Little World focuses both on the internal subjective world that we inhabit due to social media and 24/7 access to news sources, as well as the little worlds we...
The Rag Tree Speaks Poetry Book by Emma McKervey publisher Doire Press

The Rag Tree Speaks

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The Rag Tree Speaks is concerned with a sense of place, particularly questioning Irishness and the myriad voices within that familiar trope, trying to cut through easy clichés to explore...
All the Barbaric Glass Poetry Book by David Butler published by Doire Press

All the Barbaric Glass

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Consists of poems written over a five-year period which interrogate nature —specifically the sea — in order to broach perennial human concerns as ageing, loss and love, as well as...
Bloodroot Short Fiction Book by Annemarie Ní Churreáin published by Doire Press

Bloodroot

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Bloodroot explores the frailty and complexity of human relationships, often addressing the question of what it means to ‘belong’ in the world.
First the Feathers Poetry written by Amanda Bell published Doire Press

First the Feathers

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First the Feathers interrogates the position of the human in the natural world as a backdrop to a personal and political exploration of what it means to be alive —...
What Else Is There Poetry Collection by Adam White published by Doire Press
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What Else is There?

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The poems in What Else is There? are concerned with displacement and the consequences of this. Its immediate, literal manifestation in the book is the type of displacement Michael D....
Peacekeeper Poetry Book by Michael J. Whelan published by Doire Press

Peacekeeper

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The poems in Peacekeeper reveal the little known landscapes and events experienced by soldiers sent to keep the peace in highly volatile situations — experiences and events that stay part...
Ferenji Short Fiction Book by Helena Mulkerns published by Doire Press

Ferenji and Other Stories

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The collection delivers glimpses of life in the field — warts and all — with a vibrant blend of pathos, dark field humour and satire. Adding to the new genre...
Hearing Voices, Seeing Things Short Fiction by William Wall published by Doire Press

Hearing Voices, Seeing Things

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The stories in Hearing Voices, Seeing Things are inspired by overheard conversations, chance phrases, isolated encounters and each story is a brief, intense, confessional moment in a character’s life.
Jewtown Irish Poetry Book by Simon Lewis published by Doire Press

Jewtown

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Jewtown explores the journey of Jewish people who escaped the pogroms in Russia in the late 19th century, eventually settling in Cork City.
The Woman on the Other Side Poetry Book by Stephanie Conn published by Doire Press

The Woman on the Other Side

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The Woman on the Other Side is a book of exploration. The poetry invites the readers into a world of fragments, between physical and internal landscapes.
Line of the Drift Poetry Book by Robyn Rowland published by Doire Press

Line of Drift

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Without dross, woven with her rich poetic language, the poems in Line of Drift continue to paint Rowland’s narrative-lyric poems, immersed in and emerging from, the physical and historical landscapes...
In Another Country Poetry Book by Rafiq Kathwari published by Doire Press

In Another Country

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A Kashmiri poet, who writes in English, spent his youth in New York and wound up in Ireland to win the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, Rafiq became the first non-Irish...
Girl Missing From the Window Short Fiction by Paul O'Reilly published by Doire Press

The Girl Missing from the Window

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Unafraid to delve down into the hot centre of his characters, O'Reilly’s ambition is to bring this craft of plain intensity to an Irish audience in fresh, well-crafted tales that...
The Space Between Poetry Book by Kate Dempsey published by Doire Press
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The Space Between

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The poems in The Space Between pick up on everyday incidents, expanding them in novel ways, creating miniature gems of acute observation on relationships or the domestic with a sprinkling...
By the Light of Four Moons Poetry Book by John MacKenna published by Doire Press

By the Light of Four Moons

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By the Light of Four Moons is a journey through the personal and the universal. Inspired by private and public events and by the landscapes which have always been central...
Lie of the Land Poetry Book by Elaine Gaston published by Doire Press

The Lie of the Land

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The Lie of the Land is a beautiful mix of poems rooted in the landscape Elaine grew up in and those she discovered on some of her travels.
In a Hares Eye Cover 1920 Poetry Book by Breda Wall Ryan published by Doire Press

In a Hare’s Eye

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Here are poems of wonder, imagination, grief, bewilderment and delight. Drawing on an awareness formed during a rural childhood, they record the natural world and the way we, as humans,...
Waiting for the Bullet Short Fiction Book by Madeleine D'Arcy published by Doire Press

Waiting for the Bullet

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This compelling collection presents twelve character-driven short stories that are set in London, New York and Ireland. The stories are populated with characters who are forced to deal with a...
Keeping Bees Poetry Book by Dimitra Xidous published by Doire Press
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Keeping Bees

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Keeping Bees is rooted in the sensual, celebrating the vibrant nature of the body in and out love. The poetry is raw and brave, joyful and funny.
Galway Stories Short Fiction Book by Lisa Frank published by Doire Press

Galway Stories

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The twenty stories included in the collection take the reader on an intimate tour of Galway, the cultural heart of Ireland. From the top of Eyre Square to the prom...
Consent Poetry Book by Kimberly Campenello published by Doire Press

Consent

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Kimberly Campanello is attempting something new, something challenging and inspiring and radical, something that hasn’t been seen before in contemporary Irish poetry… not only does she succeed in this attempt,...
Light Knows Tricks Poetry Book by Jo Hemmant published by Doire Press
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The Light Knows Tricks

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We’re presented throughout this collection with a kaleidoscope of the twists and turns and tricks of life — surprising, pleasurable, scary, unsettling, deadly, ordinary. There’s a dizzying mix of settings...
Deirdre Unforgiven Drama by Eamon Carr published by Doire Press

Deirdre Unforgiven

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A recasting of the Deirdre fable, Eamon Carr’s verse play refracts his experience as a reporter on the North in the 1990s. Ceasefire reality and myth intersect in shades of...
Accurate Measurements Poetry by Adam White
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Accurate Measurements

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Accurate Measurements by Adam White is unusual in that it is a poetic celebration of the world of manual labour, of craftsmanship and doing things in the right way. There...
Fear Knot Poetry Book by Susan Lindsay published by Doire Press
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Fear Knot

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The poems in Fear Knot are heightened by Susan’s evocative use of language and metaphor, layered by her skillful weaving of the intricacies of the human condition.  
Image of End of Days Short Fiction Book by Aileen Armstrong Published by Doire Press
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End of Days

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A storm-battered Côte d’Azur to midsummer heat-waves and Big Freezes in the west of Ireland, the stories in End of Days capture the circumstances of change: the aftermath of loves...
Border Lines Fiction Short Stories by John Walsh published by Doire Press
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Border Lines

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Border Lines introduces us to a cast of characters who are vivid, yet understated. It is this polarity that makes them all the more compelling. Most notable is Ian, the...
Fireproof Short Fiction Book by Celeste Augé published by Doire Press
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Fireproof and Other Stories

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In her debut collection of short fiction, Augé creates poignant and accurate outlines of the women and their places in the world. Against the backdrop of modern Ireland, she tells...
And Short Fiction Book by Jim Mullarkey published by Doire Press
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And

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Mullarkey’s style of story-telling is remarkable for its preoccupation with additional things. Most of his characters suffer from the condition of being inundated by the world around them, and by...
Art of Non-Fishing Poetry Book by Kevin O'Shea published by Doire Press

The Art of Non-Fishing

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A fine debut collection, O’Shea is a poet of many talents (review by Kevin Higgins, Galway Advertiser).
Killer a la Carte Fiction Novel by Gerry Galvin published by Doire Press
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Killer a la Carte

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Killer à la Carte introduces us to James Livingstone Gall, a respected restaurant critic, creative chef and serial killer, matched in evil by Claudia Catalano, heiress to an hotel empire.
30 Under 30 Short Fiction Book by Elizabeth Reapy by published by Doire Press

30 Under 30

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30 under 30 is a collection of fresh, contemporary short fiction. There’s such a variety of style and tone, from journal narrative to post-modern non-narrative approaches. There’s flash fiction, which...
Whispering the Secrets Poetry by Susan Lindsay published by Doire Press
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Whispering The Secrets

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For her, poetry is about playing with the words until something is revealed. The journey is everything, the destination something she knows is mostly out of her hands (review by...
No Recipe Poetry Book By Gerry Galvin published by Doire Press
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No Recipe

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We travel with a keenly observant man, and one of many moods; we glimpse his loves — of family, of nature and of the changing seasons, for example – share...
The Day of the Three Swans Poetry Book by Edward Boyne published by Doire Press
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The Day of the Three Swans

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The poems in The Day of the Three Swans work with the sense of place, the shifting ground of emotion and the pressure of politics and external events. There are...
Lights in the Distance Short Fiction by Susan Millar Dumars
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Lights In The Distance

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It is what every serious writer sets out to do — to give voice to characters that do not have one. Susan writes in a very considered way about characters...
Inheritance Poetry Book by Miceál Kearney published by Doire Press
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Inheritance

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Inheritance, the debut poetry collection by farmer-poet Miceál Kearney, include poems that convey both the beauty and the brutality of life on the farm.
Loves-Enterprise-Zone-Poetry-Book-by-John-Walsh-published-by-Doire-Press
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Love’s Enterprise Zone

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Love’s Enterprise Zone is a rich and diverse collection in which the poet explores experimental and performance poetry with themes that evoke both the political and the everyday, with language...