Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this...
This celebratory anthology explores human connection through forty-four poems carefully curated by the host of the internationally acclaimed Poetry Unbound podcast. With an observant eye, Pádraig Ó ...
Named for a holy martyr who was hanged, drawn and quartered, Clare Olivia seemed destined for a life of sacrifice from the very start. After five formative years in a convent boarding school, the allu...
A lively and inviting history of Belfast-exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition of radicalism, industry, architectural innovation,...
A monthly political and cultural magazine published in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The magazine was founded in 1970 with the aim of providing analysis and criticism of politics, culture, and the arts f...
"Impermanence" is a new publication of 12 essays by writers from or living in Northern Ireland. Written against the backdrop of Brexit, the Covid pandemic, the burning of Notre Dame, and the centen...
Kitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin. The poems in Padraig O Tuama's new collection are a form of hymnody that arise neither from belief nor dev...
In Little Acts of Vigilance, the first collection of essays published by The Lifeboat, poet Miriam Gamble attends with precision to that which is often invisible. Inhabiting a space where the ...
This edition of Seamus Heaney’s seminal fourth collection North, reproduced in its elegant first setting and original jacket, marks fifty years since first publication. By conjuring aspects of a ...
“… every poem is a queering of language; every poetry critic is a critic of the queer; every reader of poetry is engaged in a queer act; every performance of poetry is a queer ...
Palestinians have used the language of human rights to articulate their struggle against the Israeli occupation and internationalise the injustices they face. Palestinian young people learning about h...
Máiría Cahill grew up steeped in the traditions of Irish republicanism and the shadowy world of the IRA: her great-uncle Joe was one of the main founders of the Provisional IRA and her grandfather w...
Photographer Nicki Germaine was in the right place at the right time in March of 1974 when she captured the grit and innocence of Bruce Springsteen and his band at Liberty Hall in Houston, Texas. Thes...
For almost two decades, Father Patrick Ryan evaded intelligence agencies across Europe. The subject of two unsuccessful extradition requests, he was, for a time, one of the most wanted men in Britain....
'Compelling, informative, essential'(Senator George Mitchell) 'Durkan was Hume’s closest and most influential intellectual and political collaborator in an epic endeavour that culminated in the G...
A Northern Ireland-based journalist and nonfiction writer reflects on the loss and grief that changed her life. When New York City native Schaap, author of Drinking With Men, went to read a favorite p...
A memoir of one of Ireland's first female rockclimbers. It starts in the 60's and 70's when young women were told to be lady-like and leave all physical activity to men.Clare did not like this idea…...