Frozen in TimeThis lavishly illustrated volume contains a selection of the papers presented at a symposium on the Fagel Collection, as well as specially commissioned articles, covering subjects as diverse as early Dutch book collections and plans of the cosmos, botanical sales catalogues and pamphlets on the bloody 1641 Rebellion in Ireland, Italian Renaissance poetry and the problem of integrating this enormous influx of books into the Trinity College Library.

Patrick Kavanagh

this sweeping multi-generational family saga follows the psychic and physical displacement of a society in freefall after independence

After a brief encounter on the Ha’penny Bridge over the Liffey

His vivid survey of Irish cultural endeavour examines the influence of the Society on writers

And a blind woman only truly realizes her blindness when forced to abandon her home

and Tim Pat Coogan

walking hundreds

Not so people of my age born into Christian Ireland

They yield a unique glimpse of French in context

Photographic sequences depict events in the Aran year – St Bridget’s Eve (1 February) and St John’s Eve (11 June)

Themes of a vanished world spool through the pages

These long-neglected questions are pursued in Nature in Ireland