A Delicate WildnessDavid Thompson was a Scottish writer, folklorist and radio producer, who became an honorary Irishman. His life took a defining turn when as a student of history at Oxford, he came to County Roscommon in the early 1930s as tutor to an Anglo Irish family, the Kirkwoods. He fell in love with his charge, Phoebe, the daughter of the house, and returned to London in 1939, becoming a radio producer with the BBC, where he spent the remainder of his working

published widely and taught across Europe and the United States

weaving patterns

is one of Ireland’s most distinguished poets

' - Charles Lysaght

with map and gazetteer

province by province

The Biography of an Irish Gentleman includes recollections by family members and author Herbie Brennan

The new edition of this classic

sounds and smells

at a party in Mississippi drunken revellers eagerly await her arrival

in which Turtle dives to the floor of the abyss to recover hidden intuitions about the world in a journey from ignorance to knowledge

is denounced as a ‘slut