Transmission : A Meditation for the New Age

Religion & Spirituality

Creme, Benjamin

Occult & Paranormal

Tara Press

Messages from Maitreya, the Christ

New Age & Spirituality

An anthology of work from writers and poets taking part in the MA in Writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway, this book was originally published in 2003. It features an introduction by Irish Writer Mike McCormack, who was Writer-In-Residence in NUIG at that time. Fiction: a bald trapeze artist seeks revenge for a crime against her vanity, a lounge piano player tries to made good one last time, a photographer is inspired by ghosts in a Chelsea warehouse. Poetry: takes us from the Canadian wilderness to the Sierra Madre, New York City and even Totnes, where all the seagulls have disappeared. Reflections: on human loss, small comforts in conflict zones, the abuse of cowboy poetry, and on watching the sun fall off the edge of the world. This anthology is being republished on the occasion of its tenth anniversary as a 2nd Edition, and is also available as an e-book.

Turbulence: Corrib Voices

Literature & Fiction

Artists, Various

British & Irish

This is the Third Edition of Val Mulkerns' critically acclaimed novel, originally published in 1984 by the historical British publishing house, John Murray. Every summer members of the O’Donoghue family return to the Irish garrison town of Ferrycarrig to the house where they all grew up. It seems none of the family has quite escaped the meshes of their childhood. In that house academic excellence has always been taken for granted and there is no quarter for those who failed. Eleanor, the cleverest daughter, retains her status but despises her husband Con. Their daughter, Julia, retreats from parental rejection into a private world of her own. Ruth, married to Martin, a favourite grandson, wonders why family members want to spend each summer at Ferrycarrig when past summers linger around the place like ghosts. This brilliant portrait of a family is described by five of its members, each interlocked in a dependence that seems to transcend time. All those summers and four generations give a splendid evocation of family life.

The Summerhouse

Mulkerns, Val

Literary

Roll up, Roll up! Come to where a red lamp glimmers atop a black piano, lit at the beginning of each show to announce an evening of magic. The Cáca Milis Cabaret has been running as a "vaudevillian evening of the Arts" in Ireland's Wexford Arts Centre and further afield since it kicked off in in 2009. Adapting the old Music Hall format to present original work from contemporary musicians, poets, writers, songsters, mime and circus performers, film-makers, comedians and dancers, it has thrived - presenting around 400 artists thus far. To mark its five-year anniversary, a splendid anthology of writing and poetry is published by Tara Press - presenting a selection of work from the writers and poets who have participated in the Cáca Milis Cabaret down the years. The dazzling gamut of writing, from short fiction to poetry, humour, sci-fi musings and satire makes it an eclectic and entertaining read. The range of contributors also adds to its attraction, featuring both local and international, emerging and established contributors, from established Irish authors like Dermot Bolger, Eoin Colfer, Emer Martin or Peter Murphy, to emerging authors like Susan Lanigan and a first fiction piece from popular comedian, Paul Tylak. Finally, the fabulous introduction by internationally-renowned writer Patrick McCabe ("The Butcher Boy"), captures the impromptu spirit of the Cabaret - which the reader may consider worth a visit after finishing the tome! Thirty-nine works feature, from Irish, international, emerging and established contributors. The anthology is edited by Helena Mulkerns, who is also the Hostess and Founder of the Cabaret itself.

Red Lamp Black Piano: The Cáca Milis Cabaret Anthology

The Ultimate Politics and History Quiz

Humor & Entertainment

Bourke, Tim

Scally, William

Puzzles & Games

The world is more complex and colourful today than ever before, with incalculable cultural, ethnic, religious and social diversities. In this book, Jenny Wickford and Fatumo Osman, both from very different backgrounds, explore how we can learn to interact with the boundless variation of our world with love and a little willingness to change.

Crossing Borders: living and learning together in a colourful world

Politics & Social Sciences

Wickford, Jenny

Osman, Fatumo

Sociology

Speak Now: Communicate Well in the Workplace

Business & Money

Carmody, Orlaith

Business Culture

The Women of 1916: When History Was Made

Taillon, Ruth

Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the tales of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of endeavors. Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Burton traveled so widely, wrote so prolifically, and contributed so forcefully to his generation's most contentious debates that heprovides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of theVictorians. One of the great challenges confronting the British in the nineteenth century was to make sense of the multiplicity of peoples and cultures they encountered in their imperial march around the globe. Burton played an important role in this mission. Drawing on his wide-ranging experiences in other lands and intense curiosity about their inhabitants, he conducted an intellectually ambitious, highly provocative inquiry into racial, religious, and sexual differences that exposed his own society's norms to scrutiny. Dane Kennedy offers a fresh and compelling examination of Burton and his contribution to the widening world of the Victorians. He advances the view that the Victorians' efforts to attach meaning to the differences they observed among other peoples had a profound influence on their own sense of self, destabilizing identities and reshaping consciousness. Engagingly written and vigorously argued, The Highly Civilized Man is an important contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial era.

The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and The Victorian World

Dane Kennedy

Biographies & Memoirs

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