A charming collection of photographs of everyday life in Cork city in the 1960s taken by renowned photographer Anthony Barry

Songs of Freedom is the name of a songbook edited by James Connolly and published in 1907. Connolly’s introduction is better known than the collection for which it was written, containing his oft quoted maxim: “Until the movement is marked by the joyous, defiant singing of revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the most distinctive marks of a popular revolutionary movement, it is the dogma of a few and not the faith of the multitude.” Though most of the songs were of Irish derivation, the songbook itself was published in New York and directed to the American Working Class; explicitly internationalist in its aims. Songs of Freedom is a celebration of the life and work of James Connolly, the Irish revolutionary socialist martyred by the British government for his role in the Easter Rising of 1916. It is at once a collection of stirring revolutionary songs and a vital historical document. For the first time in a hundred years, readers will find the original Songs of Freedom as well as the 1919 Connolly Souvenir program published in Dublin for a concert commemorating Connolly's birth. Both are reproduced exactly as they originally appeared, providing a fascinating glimpse of the workers' struggle at the beginning of the last century. To complete the picture is included the James Connolly Songbook of 1972, which contains not only the most complete selection of Connolly's lyrics, but historical background essential to understanding the context in which the songs were written and performed.

Theo Dorgan's Greek is a vivid, sensual, technically brilliant new collection which transports the reader through time and space, history and myth, love and death. The Greek Gods and Goddesses walk again, as real as we are, in the islands of 21st century Greece in a poetry which is singingly alive to the pleasures of being here now. This is the language of `undying'. Writing from 'the childhood of the world' in Greece, Dorgan finds his identity as an islander, as a lover and as a poet made new again, with increased authority and a deep understanding of the power and alchemy of myth; sharing with us his relish of 'the great slant freedom of our craft'. He demonstrates also a real gift for the short lyric poem in the middle section, `Islands', each poem here being utterly of its brief moment as 'the stars come out on the life that I call mine'.---Carol Ann Duffy

Praise for What This Earth Cost Us (2008) 'No contemporary British writer could risk, as Dorgan does in `A Charm on the Night of Your Birthday', 'I light the sky above our bed for you / with seven stars of gold, ploughing / the deep for you---' though many might give their writing hand for the debunking wit with which he continues: 'and that's not so hard/ when you are the sea'. Such fluency between registers, as between worlds, is one of the things we most want from poetry, and this book delivers it throughout.---Fiona Sampson, The Irish Times