In his book about Enya, Chilly Gonzales asks: Does music have to be smart or does it just have to go to the heart? In dazzling, erudite prose Gonzales delves beyond her innumerable gold discs and millions of fans to excavate his own enthusiasm for Enya’s singular music as well as the mysterious musician herself, and along the way uncovers new truths about the nature of music, fame, success and the artistic endeavour.
Published by Rough Trade Books Softcover 64 pages 130 x 170 mm ISBN 9781912722792
Ties That Bind – Fictions, Orthodoxies and Interdependencies is an anthology that rethinks attachment and social power relations within family, state, friendship, identities and communities through passion, intoxication, exhaustion, desire,...
Sharon Slater is Historian-in-Residence at Ormston House. She has been researching the history of life in Limerick for over twenty years, and holds an MA in Local History from...
Vital Signs is a collection of powerful and courageous responses to the human experience of illness and healing. Representing the best of contemporary and classic poetry, Vital Signs is a book for our...
I saw it go up as a child/ Four corners hide a lucky coin A publication of stills and an extract of the libretto from ROMANTIC IRELAND (2024) Eimear Walshe’s...
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