The History of Magpies Book cover type:Hardcover Its publication accompanied a major

Its publication accompanied a major exhibition of his work at IMMA

The National Gallery

and the tobacco-growing ‘Sinn Fein Countess’ tempered a life of privilege with work for Horace Plunkett’s Co-operative Societies and the United Irishwomen

Olivia Fletcher has an epiphany about a man who has loved her for decades

The History of Magpies Book cover type:Hardcover Its publication accompanied a majorHere are twelve scintillating fresh tales by one Desmond Hogan, of Irelands leading writers, who has extended and redefined the tradition of the Irish short story with inimitable verbal force. Embedded in Hogans uniquely glancing poetic style, they form capsule character studies and micro histories of societys underbelly, variously located in the streets and back alleys of Edinburgh, London, Zagreb, Cork, Dublin, and in the small rural townscape