The Love Letters of Percy FrenchRevealed for the first time is the correspondence that Percy French, one of Irelands most influential songwriters, wrote to his fiance and second wife to be, Ettie Sheldon, between May 1892 and January 1894, together with copious memorabilia of the period including several of the early French watercolours, theatre programmes, original ink sketches and portraits, and covers from the Irish Cyclist magazine of which French was editor. The letters,

they struggle to grasp that this is a shared crisis that cannot be borne alone

Growing up on his parent’s farm he was attuned to the rhythms of weather and soil from his youth

Swift: An Illustrated Life 1667-1745Êby Bruce Arnold \n \nWho was Jonathan Swift

was born 3 January 1904 on the Great Blasket island

Thirsty Ghosts is epic in scope while intimate in focus

Joyce’s celebrated textual editor Danis Rose writes about ‘The Strange Case of the Disappearing Bread: Bloom’s Budget for 16 June 1904’

backbiting and bitching and kicking our enemies when they are down

* Should I self-publish

A delightful abundance of poetic and surreal phrases

It contains the essential shorter prose works from throughout Kavanagh’s career: the legendary autobiographical pieces and rural reminiscences and a thorough selection of Kavanagh’s penetrating

his experience of capture

but it was the simple form