{"product_id":"the-2025-irish-pages-literary-diary-9781739090210","title":"The 2025 Irish Pages Literary Diary","description":"\u003cb\u003eA week-to-view diary, this elegant and practical publication gathers fiction, nonfiction, and poetry extracts \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom twenty years of outstanding writing from\u003ci\u003e Irish Pages \u003c\/i\u003e(the island's premier literary journal) and\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Irish Pages Press (\"British Book Award Small Press of the Year 2022, Island of Ireland\"). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With an array of distinguished Irish and international authors, \u003ci\u003eThe 2025 Irish Pages Literary Diary\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential holiday gift for readers, writers and anyone interested in the life of the mind and the state of the world. The Diary features classic texts by celebrated authors such as Seamus Heaney, Kathleen Jamie, Susan Sontag, Patricia Craig, Slavenka Drakulic, Julia Kristeva and Chinua Achebe, as well as the remarkable work of emerging writers living in Ireland. The Diary includes quotations in English, Scots, Scots Gaelic and Irish, highlighting the linguistic range across Ireland and Britain. Offering illuminating insights throughout the year, the Diary pairs literary passages with corresponding holidays, historical anniversaries and elegant illustrations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Irish Pages and its authors inhabit \"the space outside\" the Pale of the Received - business-as-usual in all its (especially Western) forms: literary, intellectual, cultural, social, political. The Diary celebrates this emphasis on original imaginative engagement with the world and its dilemmas, and is intended especially for all those readers for whom ethical issues count. Similar to the \u003ci\u003eFaber \u0026amp; Faber Poetry Diary, The LRB Diary \u003c\/i\u003eor \u003ci\u003eThe Redstone Diary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Irish Pages Diary\u003c\/i\u003e offers a unique combination of Irish and international literary perspectives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCiar?n O'Rourke was born in 1991 and took a degree in English and History at Trinity College, Dublin. Phantom Gang was longlisted for the 2023 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize. Milena Williamson is the author of Charm for Catching a Train (Green Bottle Press 2022) and Into the Night that Flies So Fast (Dedalus Press 2024).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Irish Pages Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50870563701010,"sku":"9781739090210","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_162d7ddd-6d81-4961-aeda-e1823cf18a70.jpg?v=1737809544","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-2025-irish-pages-literary-diary-9781739090210","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}