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Irish Pages Full Collection

$500.00 – $600.00

A full set of all back issues of Irish Pages can be purchased here. The stock for a number of these issues is extremely limited and likely to run out in the near future. The purchase of the full set of back issues can be combined with a one-, two- or three-year subscription – thus ensuring, into the future, the complete archive of Ireland’s premier literary journal.

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Irish Pages: The Classic Heaney Issue

$36.00

A hardback reprint of the classic Irish Pages issue on Seamus Heaney to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death on 30 August 2013. “So many people in Ireland and overseas read, admired, and watched him. The extraordinary degree to which Heaney was a creative and ethical exemplar, shaper, mentor, influence, and generous friend for his fellow poets and writers comes through especially powerfully in this book, with its 54 contributors from Ireland, Britain, the United States and further afield…” Includes four last poems by Seamus Heaney.

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Vol. 12 No. 1: War in Europe

$39.00

Essays and poems in translation by many of Ukraine’s leading writers and scholars, including: Serhiy Zhadan, Yuri Andrukhovych, Serhii Plokhy, Oksana Zabuzhko, Ostap Slyvynsky, Yuliya Musakovska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Jurko Prochasko, Iaroslava Strikha, Oleksandra Matviichuk, Iya Kiva, Oksana Lutsyshyna, Halyna Kruk, Olha Poliukhovych, Artem Chekh & Marjana Savka.
Also work in English from Irish, British and American writers including: David Rieff, Carolyn Forché, Timothy Snyder, Amelia Glaser, Marci Shore, Peter Balakian, Christopher Merrill, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Bruce Weigl, Ed Vulliamy, Moya Cannon, Ciarán O’Rourke, Patrick Breslin, Chris Agee, Michael Longley & Mark Cousins.
With further translations from the Irish, Hungarian, Spanish and Belarussian – and much more including “A Suite of Poems on the Holodomor”.
Plus: Ukraine: A Love Story & Don’t Close Your Eyes – Two Outstanding Portfolios Of Photographs And Art Works.
Edited by Chris Agee and Askold Melnyczuk.

Love-sm

Vol. 11 No. 2: Love

$39.00

Love poems by Michael Longley
Katheen Jamie & Brian Holton on translating Classical Chinese into Scots
New translations of the great Sappho
Alistair McIntosh’s “A Sixteenth Century Irish Sermon on COP26”
Translations of Balkan fiction by Slavenka Drakulic, Magdalena Blazević, Korana Serdarević and Miljenko Jergović
Chris Arthur on Nicholson’s imperialist statue in Lisburn
“On Plymouth Brethenism” by William Brown
A translation of a Ninth Century Irish prayer
Roisin Costello on corncrakes and Irish
“The Songs of Rathlin” by Sorcha Ní Lochlainn
Cilian Roden on Robert Lloyd Praeger and Irish patriotism
New poems and translations by Harry Clifton, Milena Williamson, Linda France, Philip Gross, Ruth Carr, Benjamin Keatinge, Chris Preddle, Ruth Padel and Antonietta Bocci
Gerard McCarthy’s last essay
New prose on love and loss by John Hill, Manus Charleton & Angela Wright

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Vol. 11 No. 1: The Anthropocene

$39.00

ON THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS

Ruth Padel on “A Patch of Moonlight” in India
Morten Strøkness offers “A Tourist’s Guide to Norway”
Other new essays by Malachi O’Doherty, John Wilson Foster, Muireann Charleton and Niamh Morritt
New poems by Greg Delanty, Moya Cannon & Ciaran O’Rourke

PANDEMIC

Chris Agee’s “Secular Prophecies”
Robert Alan Jamieson & Alec Finlay on falling ill
Amanda Thomson’s “Biding”
John Glenday’s “Love”

INTO THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Sean Lysaght on the Mayo Wilds
Garry Mackenzie & Meg Bateman on Ben Dorain
“The Corniche Carriage Clock: A Sequence” by John F. Deane
New poems by Chris Preddle, Simon Ó Faoláin & Benjamin Keatinge

MODERN TIMES

Gabriel Rosenstock on “The Irish Problem”
Four love poems by Matt Kirkham
Gerry Cambridge on “The Identitarian Delusion”
Chris Benfry & Sven Birkerts on “Serendipity”
“Varieties of Islam” by Jacob Agee
Sacha Baron Cohen on The Silicon Six
New short fiction by Slavenka Drakulić

PORTFOLIO

“The Two of Them”, celebrated cartoons by Tisja Kljalović Braić

and many others

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Vol. 10 No. 2: The Belfast Agreement: Twentieth Anniversary Issue

$39.00

Michael Longley on “Songs for Dead Children”
Essays on The Good Friday Agreement by Paul Arthur, Patricia Craig, Monica McWilliams, Paul Arthur, John Gray, John Wilson Foster, Edna Longley, Iggy McGovern, Gerard McCarthy, David Park, Jean Bleakney, Carlo Gébler, Anne Devlin, Brice Dickson, Robert McDowell, Ed Moloney, Mathew O’Toole, Jason Gathorne-Hardy, Andy Pollak & Glenn Patterson
Roy Foster and Nigel Lewis on Europe’s Tectonic Plates
Poems by Tom Mac Intyre, Moya Cannon, Ruth Carr, Harry Clifton, Kerry Hardie, Gerard Smyth & Ciarán O’Rourke
Philip Knox, Jennifer Kerr, Stephen Dornan, Stephen Elliott & Noel Russell on the youthful aftermath of the Agreement
Chris Agee’s “Weather Report: Good Friday Week, 1998”
Evelyn Conlon, Matt Kirkham, Peter Geoghegan, Natasha Cuddington & Frances Byrne on boundaries, borders & maps
Manfred McDowell on the secrets of 64 Myrtlefield Park
Art Hughes in praise of Belfast and its writers
PLUS: “Writers of Belfast”: A remarkable portfolio of paintings by Neil Shawcross

Criticism

Vol. 10 No. 1: Criticism

$39.00

Eva Hoffman on Europe’s “Internal Others”
A poem by Derek Mahon
Neil Corcoran on “The Mahon Prose”
The Good, the Bad & the Dire: Patricia Craig on recent Irish fiction
An homage to Catalonia
Mark Cousins on “The Story of Looking”
New fiction by David Park & Kerry Hardie
Brendan Corcoran on Heaney’s “ecological” laments
& Hugh Dunkerley on “Poetry and Fracking”
New essays by Kathleen Jamie, Seán Lysaght,
Bernard O’Donoghue, Stewart Sanderson & Scott Hames
An extraordinary reflection on the Internet of Things
Poems by Ruth Padel, Moya Cannon & Thomas McCarthy
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir on the Irish Language Act
New Poetry in Scots and Scottish Gaelic
PLUS: “Ways of Seeing”
A remarkable photographic portfolio by Sonya Whitefield

Israel,-Islam-and-The-West

Vol. 9 No. 2: Israel, Islam & the West

$39.00

Gerard McCarthy on the refugee crisis in Greece
An unpublished survivor’s account of Bergen Belsen
“A Trial” by Hubert Butler
Writings on Iran, Bosnia and Islam
Avi Shlaim on “Israel and the Arrogance of Power”
Dervla Murphy’s “Hasbara in Action” and John McHugo on Syria
A trilingual elegy in Irish, Polish and English
Chris Agee on “Troubled Belfast”
Ghazels of Hafez
Lara Marlowe on Mahmoud Darwish
New poems on the Middle East by Seán Lysaght, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ciarán O’Rourke & Cathal Ó Searcaigh
PLUS: “I am Belfast”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Mark Cousins

after-heaney

Vol. 9 No. 1: After Heaney

$39.00

An uncollected address by Seamus Heaney
Jahan Ramazani on Heaney’s Globe & Bernard O’Donoghue on Stepping Stones
Gabriel Rosenstock on a poisoned windharp
Translations from the Latin of Virgil and Catullus
A major interview with Michael Longley
Chris Agee on the ethnic basis of Irish poetry
Robert Crawford upholds “bardic voice”
New poems by Moya Cannon, Ruth Carr, Frank Ormsby and Cathal Ó Searcaigh
Fiction by Juliana Roth and Malachy Tallack
Plus: “In the Aegean”, a remarkable photographic portfolio on the refugee crisis

Heaney

Vol. 8 No. 2: Heaney

$39.00

Four Poems by Seamus Heaney
Sven Birkerts and Helen Vendler on the man and the poet
A Suite of Obituaries & Global Reminiscences by leading poets and writers in Ireland, Britain and the United States
New poems by Kerry Hardie, Michael Coady, Paddy Bushe, Kathleen Jamie, Katie Donovan, Seán Lysaght, Damian Smyth, Ignatius McGovern, John F. Deane, Franics Harvey, Michael Longley, Alan Gillis, Moya Cannon and Harry Clifton
President Michael D. Higgins on John Hewitt & Richard Murphy on poetry and terror
New writing in Irish from Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Cathal O Searcaigh and others
PLUS: “Seamus Justin Heaney 1939-2013”, a unique photographic portfolio by Bobbie Hanvey

inheritance

Vol. 8 No. 1: Inheritance

$39.00

Mark Cousins on the future of film
Short stories by Ron Rash and Ruth Gilligan
Leslie Van Gelder’s On Absolute Darkness & Bernard MacLaverty’s “Bye-child”
Patricia Craig remembers John Hewitt
Three poems from the Old Irish & Gerard McCarthy on Granada
New poetry and fiction by John F. Deane, John Glenday, Chris Preddle, Manus Charleton, Tom MacIntyre and Francis Harvey
Introducing The Other Tongues
PLUS: “Albania’s Spaç”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Peter Geoghegan

memory

Vol. 7 No. 2: Memory

$39.00

Barry Lopez on the trauma of sexual abuse
Chris Agee & Kerry Hardie on aftermaths
An unpublished essay by Hubert Butler
Tom Mac Intyre’s “Memoirs”
Michael Longley, Patricia Craig & Glenn Patterson remember the Titanic
Major essays by Wendell Berry & Thomas Kilroy
New Writing in Irish & Scots
Joseph Horgan celebrates “the fifth element”
PLUS: “Time in the East”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Elizabeth Switaj

self

Vol. 7 No. 1: Self

$39.00

Ciaran Carson celebrates Irish traditional musicians
Deirdre Mask on multicultural Ireland
Tim Kenny on the collapse of Detroit
Tom Mac Intyre’s “Memoirs
New fiction by Robert Welch & Hunter Liguore
Eibhlín Evans & Jonathan P. Watts on W.G. Sebald
New poems and translations by Vona Groarke, Frankie Sewell, Sam Gardiner, Christopher Whyte & Cathal Ó Searcaigh
PLUS: “The Light of Other Days/Solas ó Ré Eile”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Jim Maginn

plus much more…

sexuality

Vol. 6 No. 2: Sexuality

$39.00

Harry Clifton remembers Paris
Lynley Edmeades on bisexuality
Tony MacMahon’s “A Café in Tangiers”
New fiction by Mike McCormack & Rodge Glass
Writing in Irish & Scots Gaelic by Seán Mac Mathúna, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Máire Wren, Colette Ní Ghallchóir, Meg Bateman & Peter MacKay
A postmodern folktale in Ulster-Scots
New poetry & prose by Gerard McCarthy, Sinéad Morrissey, Emma Marx, Denis Sampson, Manus Charleton & Miriam Gamble
PLUS: “Fair Trade”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Kenneth O’Halloran

plus much more…

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Vol. 6 No. 1: Ireland in Crisis

$39.00

Morgan Kelly on why Ireland is insolvent
Thomas McCarthy on the undoing of a nation
New fiction by Gabriel Rosenstock, Mike McCormack, Jacqueline McCarrick & Liz McSkeane
Harry Clifton remembers Paris ~ Ben Maier’s The Farm at Millisle
Janet Dine on how Western commercial law kills
Writing in Irish by Colm Breathnach, Niamh Ní Lochlainn, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín & Rody Gorman
New poetry & prose by Manus Charleton, Michael Coady, Patricia Craig, Eamon Grennan, Sarah Jackson, Matt Kirkham, Tom Mac Intyre, Gerard Smyth & Vincent Woods
PLUS: “Outcomes”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Mark Granier

plus much more…

the-irish-issue

Vol. 5 No. 2: An tEagrán Gaeilge / The Irish Issue

$39.00

Contemporary writing in Irish by Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Liam Mac Cóil, Louis de Paor, Aifric Mac Aodha, Liam Ó Muirthile, Biddy Jenkinson, Micheál Ó Conghaile, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Gabriel Rosenstock, Alan Titley and many others.
With writing in English by Tim Robinson, Paddy Bushe, Seán Lysaght, Patricia Craig and Hugo Hamilton.
And new translations of a suite of poems by Seán Ó Ríordáin.
PLUS: “Taking Sides”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Bobbie Hanvey.

plus much more…

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