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The 2025 Irish Pages Literary Diary

$25.00

 

A week-to-view diary, this elegant and practical publication gathers extracts from twenty years of outstanding writing from Irish Pages (the island’s premier literary journal) and The Irish Pages Press. With an array of distinguished Irish and international authors, The 2025 Irish Pages Literary Diary is an essential holiday gift for readers, writers, and anyone interested in the life of the mind and the state of the world.

 

The Diary features classic texts by celebrated authors such as Kathleen Jamie, Susan Sontag, Patricia Craig, Slavenka Drakulić, Julia Kristeva and Chinua Achebe, as well as the remarkable work of emerging writers living in Ireland. The Diary includes quotations in English, Scots, Scots Gaelic and Irish, highlighting the linguistic range across Ireland and Britain.

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.

Dear Orson Welles & Other Essays

$36.00

MARK COUSINS

In this wide-ranging, stylish and iconoclastic book, Cousins reflects on his prolific career in filmmaking, meditating on the actors, directors, films, writers and philosophers that have influenced him, as well as on other adventures in filmland and on creativity in general.

Theory of Sorrow

$32.00

SLAVENKA DRAKULIĆ

 

It is 1914, the eve of the First World War. Mileva Einstein has just arrived in Berlin with her two young sons to join her husband, the most celebrated scientist of the 20th century, Albert Einstein. He has finally found a university position worthy of his talents.

And then Mileva then receives a letter from him outlining “Conditions” he expects her to uphold in order to continue their relationship, and her already difficult life is completely upended.

Daddy Issues

$34.00

DINO PEŠUT

 

Croatia’s Groundbreaking Gay Novel.

 

“I receive the news of my father’s grave illness with almost complete indifference. I’m finding it mildly annoying, like road construction… He called me just briefly; he doesn’t want to bother me too much. I’m at work right now. I hang up. I’m furious at my father’s potentially terminal illness. I work at the reception desk of an okay hotel… My job is not demanding—often it’s boring, but it keeps my curiosity alive. I especially like working the evening shifts and figuring out who is sleeping with whom. At night, I get to read a lot. Secretly, I write poetry.”

The Story of a Man Who Collapsed Into His Notebook

$32.00

IVANA SAJKO

 

The Story of a Man Who Collapsed Into His Notebook is about departures, childhood, the end of a relationship and the vanishing possibility in today’s world of fleeing to a better place. Written in the first person, each chapter a single sentence, the novel is an internal soliloquy of self-examination, an excavation of a life punctuated by upheaval and loss, hope and disillusionment, ambition and failure.

Unterstadt – A Novel

$36.00

IVANA ŠOJAT

 

The novel Unterstadt tells the story of an urban family of German origin living in Osijek from the end of the nineteenth till the end of the twentieth century. It is narrated through the portrayal of the destinies of four generations of women – a great grandmother, a grandmother, mother, and a daughter – their shattered illusions, the education of their children, the historical events that brutally lash out at them.

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.

Errigal: Sacred Mountain

$36.00

CATHAL Ó SEARCAIGH

 

In Errigal: Sacred Mountain, Ó Searcaigh (one of Ireland’s most celebrated poets, in both Irish and English) goes on a pilgrim path around Errigal and – in the active meditation of walking – summons up the spirit of this revered mountain, the largest in Ireland. In his “Passages of Light” as he calls them, we get a vivid and an insightful word-journey around a mountain that has shaped the thinking of one of the most eminent poets in the Irish language.

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Subscribe to Irish Pages

$72.00$246.00

We want to deliver excellent literature directly to your door. Conveniently, we offer subscriptions to Irish Pages, a biannual journal, with a variety of options.  You can choose to receive issues for one, two or three years.  You can subscribe as an individual or as an institution of higher education, if you are affiliated with one. And you can even give the gift of an Irish Pages subscription to your friends and family.

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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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Old Istanbul & Other Essays

$30.00

GERARD McCARTHY

 

This is the first book of essays by a major new Irish non-fiction writer from the West of Ireland, comparable to the celebrated Kilkenny essayist Hubert Butler first published by The Lilliput Press and subsequently widely acclaimed. McCarthy’s writing is no less distinguished than Butler’s.

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

Aa Cled Wi Clouds She Cam

$30.00

60 LYRICS FRAE THE CHINESE:Translations in Scots and English

BRIAN HOLTON

Brian Holton is unique in that he can translate directly into Scots from the Chinese. This anthology consists of translations into Scots and English of the first sixty poems of the standard anthology Song Ci Sanbaishou (“300 Sòng Dynasty Song Lyrics”), edited by Zhu Zumou (1924), with a Translator’s Afterword/Owresetter’s Eftirword.