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The Hurley Maker's Son
Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced. From this moment, Patrick unfolds his childhood as a series of evocative moments, from the intricate workings of the timber workshop run by his father to the slow taking apart of an old tractor and the physical burial of a steam engine; from his mother’s steady work on an old Singer sewing machine to his father’s vertiginous quickstep on the roof of their house. There are many wonderful descriptions of the natural world and delightful cameos of characters and incidents from a not-so-long-ago country childhood. In a style reminiscent of John McGahern’s Memoir, Deeley’s beautifully paced prose captures the rhythms, struggles and rough edges of a rural life that was already dying even as he grew. This is an enchanting, beautifully written account of family, love, loss, and the unstoppable march of time.
The End of the World
Seventh collection of poems by Irish poet Patrick Deeley
The Bones of Creation
Patrick Deeley is an Irish poet with a profound sense of place and of ecological awareness. Born in Loughrea, Co. Galway, in 1953, he grew up on the edge of a wetland meadow, or callows, whose flora and fauna have provided an enduring theme for his writing over some thirty years. Four previous collections have appeared, all from Dedalus, the most recent being Turane: The Hidden Village (1995) and Decoding Samara (2000). Principal of a large school in Ballyfermot, Dublin, he is also the author of a number of fiction titles for younger readers, including The Lost Orchard, winner of the Bisto Book of the Year Eilis Dillon Award in 2001.
Keepsake
The poems in Irish poet Patrick Deeley's latest collection Keepsake arrive as bounties from nature. They sing to experiences of love, friendship, art, childhood and ageing. Moving from the wetland meadows of the west of Ireland to the rugged surrounds of the River Dodder in Dublin, and further afield to Europe and beyond, they delight in catching the heightened, close to hallucinatory effects of time spent in the presence of wild and wilding, while yet communicating a punchy and palpable sense of the modern world - and ourselves with it - as being charmed, chaotic, and fleeting. The shadow of annihilation hovers. Indeed, certain poems present the earth as post-apocalyptic yet somehow continu...
The Lost Orchard
Winner of the Eilís Dillon Memorial Award Strange planes are flying over Darkfield Village. When Paul finds out they are planning an open-cast mine in the area, he fears this is going to change his way of life forever.
My Dog Lively
Six-year-old Jenny has always gotten a new toy dog for her birthday. This year, she wants a real pet. But when Mom and Dad get her a real dog called Lively, she finds out pet can be a lot of work. Illustrations.
Wingspan
Now in its 21st year, the Dedalus Press is one of the major poetry imprints in Ireland. In Wingspan: A Dedalus Sampler, poet and publisher Pat Boran presents a selection of recent and new work by 28 Irish and international poets on the Dedalus list - among them Fergus Allen, Thomas Kinsella, Dolores Stewart and Macdara Woods - showing something of the range and diversity that is the hallmark of the Dedalus list.
Shattered Sense of Innocence
This book tells the gripping story of the three murdered Chicago boys and the quest to find and bring to justice their killer. The authors recount the bungled police investigation and a questionable conviction, and present new information concerning two suspects overlooked by police for five decades.
The Tangled Web
The Tangled Web tells the dramatic story of Detective Richard Cain, the man the FBI described as “possibly the most corrupt police official in the history of Chicago.” Cain led double life—at once a chief investigator and a “made” man, both a detective who led raids on gambling rings and a soldier carrying out hits for Mafia bosses. Using years of research, interviews, family anecdotes, and rare documents, Michael Cain creates a comprehensive and compelling biography of his half-brother. This edition features an all-new introduction by the author. In a story that reads like the plot of Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, Cain played both ends against the middle to become a household name in Chicago and a notorious figure in both the Mob and the world of Chicago law enforcement. Before his execution by shotgun in Rose’s Sandwich Shop, Cain’s legend would grow to the point of rumored involvement in the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the FBI’s plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. Filled with fascinating and until-now unknown facts, The Tangled Web tells the full story of this one-man crime wave.
