Nuacht faoi Údair: News of Authors

The weaver and author Meghan Nuttall Sayres presented her graceful reflections on continuity and change in Irish crafts in "Conversations in Donegal: Mary McNelis and Con O'Gara," in New Hibernia Review, volume 5, number 3 (Autumn, 2001). Later this year, Cork University Press will releases Sayres's new book drawing on this and other interviews and field work with the artisans of Tapéis Gael in Gleanncholmcille, as Weaving Tapestry in Rural Ireland: Tapéis Gael, Donegal (ISBN 13: 978-0-9535353-3-0). The volume includes color and black-and-white photographs by Laurence Boland.

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Readers attentive to the lively world of present-day poetry may have already dipped into Dr. Sarah Broom's ambitious Contemporary Irish and British Poetry: An Introduction, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2005 (ISBN 1-4039-0675-0). A portion of Broom's monograph appeared in these pages as "Learning About Dying: Mutability and the Classics in the Poetry of Michael Longley," in volume 6, number 1 (Spring, 2002).