My Dublin 1963 // My Dubliners 2020These 89 black & white photographs taken by Alen MacWeeney in Dublin in 1963 5 are spontaneous images of Dublin and Dubliners in all areas of the city, a street odyssey reflecting a cross section of the people, their habits and behaviour, ten years before Ireland joined the European Union and the wider world. The text on facing pages consists in social commentary gleaned from a posting by Pesya Altman, co author, artist and partner of MacWeeney, of

and the polymath Sir William Wilde

Peggy O’Brien’s first collection Sudden Thaw opens with a taut sonnet sequence that laments her father

'Ê- John Horgan

moving arms

This Tumult is based on the author’s own family history

it will apeal to traveller

either in loss or renewal

Each one is based on a line from the fable and helps to interpret and illuminate the work

James Crombie set out for the shore of Lough Ennell

extensively illustrated with photographs

Irish civil servants

Lydia Lopokova