Books published in 2024 include:

This new biographical history of Yeats in Howth is available to buy from Liber bookshop Sligo and excellent Dublin Bookshops such as The Winding Stair Bookshop, Raven Books, Books on the Green, Books Upstairs, The Company of Books, Hodges Figgis, and Malahide’s Manor Books.
This new book maps the time the great Irish poet W.B. Yeats lived in Howth, his attempts to make his work catch fire, and his struggle to become an artist. The book reveals the enduring influence this Dublin location had on his work. And it explores the young writer’s supernatural interests, his fledgling verse, and his proximity to madness. It recalls encounters with his first love Laura Armstrong, and captures moments of profound poetic inspiration and fragile beauty such as Yeats’s legendary sea cliff walk with his great unrequited love Maud Gonne – in a poetic landscape fit for eternity’s ghosts.
The stunning book cover was designed by designer and illustrator Katie Tooke, who has designed landmark covers for bestselling books such as Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Jessie Burton’s The House of Fortune.
Author Kieran McNally said, “In many senses Yeats is a forgotten Dublin poet. His formative years were spent in Howth but few people realise this. This little book throws light on that time. Place gives birth to a poet and poetry. And so it is with Howth, with its caves, thickets and fairies; with its fisherfolk and ghost stories. Not to mention lovers. If you understand the influence of this place on Yeats, you will understand his poetry in a new and interesting way. We are composed by place”.
If not Dublin based, you can also order here. The book was launched on October 9 in the Irish Writers Centre with an introduction by the author and ‘Accidental Diplomat’ Eamon Delaney.
Yeats in Howth by KMN
Dublin City Books
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