Confessions of a PoacherThis book is a vivid series of autobiographical sketches that describe Connell's early life among the Slieve Blooms and his move to London's East End. At weekends he sallies forth with his companions and beloved lurcher Nellie in quest of game: hare, pheasant, rabbit, partridge and salmon most of it illegally trapped, snared and shot. He encounters magistrates and landlords, evoking a hierarchical late Victorian world in which town and country merge,

From the high of the Good Friday agreement and devolution in Northern Ireland

Something to Hide introduces a neglected poet whose life gives a new perspective to twentieth-century Ireland

Rory de Valera

music or literature

\n \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n \nRaymond Beggan is a nature photographer

understanding of the need to make the transition from the old order to a new way of life as an inhabitant of the Irish state

precise and imagistic

These modern stories have been written over the past decade

with sharp insights into human behaviour

It was well received in England and a best-seller in Dublin

Lulu and the children had been obliged to stand shivering at gunpoint on the lawn watching the conflagration

The fruit of intensive research