Rhapsody in Stephens Green & The Insect PlayUsing a play by Karl and Josef Capek as source, Flann OBrien locates his insect drama in Dublin, his most familiar stalking territory. His adaptation is a vehicle for ridicule and invective, targeting race, religion, greed, identity and purpose. With his extraordinary ear for dialogue, OBrien creates his own fantastical world, and the outcome is a hilarious satire of Irish stereotypes as Orangemen, Dubliners, Corkagians and culchies become warring

In its original treatment of what Yeats called ‘intemperate speech’

It looks at how we engage space and are engaged by it

It's the thought that counts

genealogies

charismatic personality

No one will be untouched by the issues raised in this pioneering

Photographs and pen-and-ink drawings by the author illustrate the text

but also a new persona

It is particularly pressing that we understand as fully as possible the increasing pressures on space in our urban and rural areas and at all levels

This book is a collaborative enterprise

With an introduction by the photographer and an afterword by Rolf Loeber

kings or legendary figures