Item category 1: Donegal Studies

After 11 arduous months, on May 24, 1923, the guns fell silent, and the Irish Civil War finally came to an end. 12 weeks later, all adults aged 21 or over - regardless of social status or gender - cast their vote in the state's first general election. The 1923 general election marks the beginning...

Washing Windows III contains 100 new poems in English and in Irish, selected by co-editor Alan Hayes, by women who have not yet published a full collection, with an introductory essay by co-editor Nuala O’Connor. It honours "Pauline Bewick, (1935-2022), Artist, Writer, Genius and Ailbhe Smyth, Ac...

'Washing Windows IV: Irish Women Write Poetry' is a celebration of the wealth of creativity and vision in Ireland, north and south, in both languages, by contemporary women writers. It comprises 100 new poems from poets who have yet to publish a full collection and it is published by Arlen House,...

No matter what age we are, we are getting older. Old age is a key stage of life, but this is the first anthology of creative writing on the topic of compiling the work of contemporary women in Ireland. In these insightful essays, stories and poems, well-known and new writers reflect on their exp...

What does Ireland's nature poetry say about us as a people? How does it speak to us of our past, our inheritance, the values to which we aspire? What lies within its language that connects us to our deeper selves and our place within our communities and environments? As varied as our plants, anim...