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Current Publications
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In the Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop by Jack Harte
The latest novel from acclaimed author Jack Harte.
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Reflections in a Tar-Barrel (2023 edition) by Jack Harte
A new edition of the acclaimed novel by Jack Harte.
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Aspects of a Life by Gerry Coffey
A first collection of poems by Gerry Coffey.
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Uneasy Bedfellows by Jack Harte
Two young friends who have bonded through poetry join an expedition to Derry on the fateful August weekend in 1969 when the history of Northern Ireland took a violent turn.
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In the Wake of the Bagger (2023 edition) by Jack Harte
Scotus Press are delighted to present a new edition of Jack Harte’s acclaimed first novel to a new generation of readers.
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Glimpsing More by Pádraig J. Daly
A new collection by Pádraig J. Daly, Augustinian friar and widely translated poet.
Daly comments on life as if he was a mystic, just come through the gate of the city.
- Thomas McCarthy, The Irish Times
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Gillespie's Glorious Birds,
Watercolours by Alwyn Gillespie
This collection of bird portraits by Alwyn Gillespie
shows some of the gorgeous creatures that share
our planet.
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Anvil Dust by Thomas Brezing
This collection of poems revisits and captures Thomas Brezing’s childhood in Germany as a blacksmith’s son.
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One Para by Gerard Humphreys
A gripping new play which offers us an unseen perspective on the events of Bloody Sunday and their aftermath. Staged to coincide with the 50th anniversary, Scotus Press is delighted to partner The New Theatre to publish this script.
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A Ballad of Jonathan Wade
The event, ‘A Ballad of Jonathan Wade’ in The New Theatre, and this accompanying book, intend to reacquaint the public with one of the most exciting painters of the last century.
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The Laughing Boy by Jack Harte
The Laughing Boy was given its first stage production at The New Theatre, Dublin, from 31st August to 11th September, 2021. The text was published by Scotus to coincide with this production.
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Poems with Translations by Lyubomir Levchev
An online selection of poems from the great Bulgarian master, with translations into English, German, Macedonian, Turkish, Russian and Swedish.
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A Small Psalter by Pádraig J.Daly
Pádraig J. Daly was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. He is an Augustinian friar, working in the Dublin Liberties. He has published eleven collections of poetry and several volumes of translations from Irish and Italian. Translations of his poetry have been made into most European languages and collections have appeared in Italian and Romanian. His translation of a poem by Eduardo Sanguineti features on the dustcover of "The FSG (Farrar Strauss Giroux) Book of Twentieth Centure Italian Poetry".
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Soulbeat by Andy Loughran
Andy Loughran, the bard of Clondalkin, both a musician and poet was born in 1956 and died in 1982 at the age of twenty five. After his untimely death a group of his friends gathered together to produce a collection of his poems. These poems and songs that he left behind deserve to be remembered and cherished. He inspired his friends and indeed all who encountered him with his hunger for life and his total commitment to making the world a better place to live.
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Two Plays by Jack Harte
Acclaimed playwright, novelist and short story writer, Jack Harte’s novel In the wake of the Bagger was nominated in Des Kenny’s book as one of the 101 Irish Books You Must Read. His fiction has appeared in 13 languages. Harte made his debut as a playwright in 2015 with Language of the Mute (New Theatre) which toured nationally in 2016. This was followed by The Mysterious History of Things (Viking Theatre, 2016) and Lugh and Balor performed in Greek translation at the Ancient Theatre of Maroneia and the Theatre of Komotini in Greece (2016). Killing Grandad, premiered in the New Theatre in March 2020, while The Pleasureometer featured in the Fightback Festival, streamed live from the New Theatre in April 2020. Jack Harte founded the Irish Writers Union and the Irish Writers Centre.
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Ghost Homeland by Colin Carberry
Colin Carberry was born in Canada, but grew up in Lanesboro, Co Longford, in the Irish Midlands. He returned to Canada for his university education, then migrated to Mexico, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. His poetry has been published internationally and in a number of languages. His cross-national experience and travels give variety to his themes and richness to his poetry. His engagement with each subject is thorough and intellectually challenging but his lyrical verse is also a never-faltering delight to the reader.
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Space Between Stars by Colm McHugh
Colm McHugh’s second collection of poems develops and expands on many of the themes that preoccupied this most contemplative of poets in his first collection, Lighthouse. The intimate moments of living are his speciality, delicately honed into a lyrical poetry of exquisite sensitivity. Whether he is contemplating the flight of a circus trapeze girl, or reflecting on the death of a friend, he is constantly searching for that which makes an experience sublime, then distils the experience into poems of distinctive lyricism. This is a poet to read, enjoy, and contemplate.
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Rehabilitating the Serpent by Jack Harte
Religion inspires love and hatred in equal measure. Intrigued by these paradoxes, Jack Harte analyses religions back to their origins in story, through the medium of narrative itself, and challenges the notions of good and evil on which they are based. He confronts the ultimate Boogey Man, the Devil, the Serpent.
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Jonathan Wade by Henry J Sharpe
When Jonathan Wade died tragically in a road accident in 1973 he was only 31 years old, but had already established himself as the most exciting and most promising artist of his generation. Henry J Sharpe wrote a monograph on Wade which was published by Profile Press in 1977. Scotus Press is delighted to make Sharpe's monograph freely available again on the Internet.
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Language of the Mute by Jack Harte
This play was given its premiere at the New Theatre, Dublin, from 24 August to 5 September, 2015:
A charismatic teacher, a supporter of fundamentalist republicanism and Irish Language activist – whose overt and very public idealism masks a history of sexual and psychological exploitation – is confronted by his former pupils. The play examines how charisma and idealism can be used to exploit people, sexually, politically and socially. The core of the problem and the core of the solution is language and communication. But the play shows how ultimately love can triumph over cynicism, how idealism can endure.
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A lesson in Can't by Celia de Fréine
Celia de Fréine is a poet and playwright who writes in Irish and English. Her poetry has won many awards including the Patrick Kavanagh Award(1994) and Gradam Litríochta Chló Iar-Chonnachta (2004). A lesson in Can't is her eighth collection.
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Blood Debts by Celia de Fréine
Blood Debts is a translation from the Irish of Fiacha Fola. This sequence of poems articulates the experience of one of the women affected by the Hepatitis C scandal.
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New Tarot by Henry J Sharpe
New Tarot by Henry J Sharpe is a graphic re-interpretation of the Major Arcana in a modern idiom. Being a book of graphics, it transcends language.
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Arcana by Jack Harte
In the style of the heroic sagas, but with anti-heroic intent, it challenges inherited concepts of heroism and religion. With a light and lively touch it demonstrates how a religion or philosophy is hijacked by power-mongers.
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Arcana (Spanish edition) by Jack Harte
Linares International Literature Festival featured 'Arcana' and invited Harte to present it at the Festival in November 2013. They commissioned a print edition of the book in Spanish especially for the Festival.
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Dream Home by Padraig McGrane
This postumous collection of poetry by the Co Monaghan poet Padraig McGrane was published in May 2014 in Kingscourt. McGrane had settled in Spain and died in Santiago de Compostella in 2008 at the untimely age of 49.
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Vögel und andere Geschichten
- by Jack Harte
This is a translation into German by Heidi Zojer of Jack Harte's Birds and Other Tails.
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Unravelling the Spiral - The Life and Work of Fred Conlon (1943-2005) by Jack Harte
Jack Harte's latest book is a memoir/biography of the sculptor, Fred Conlon.
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Treasures of the Unconscious - A Collection of Poems by Niall McGrath
McGrath's second collection makes the everyday ‘strange’ through intensity of perception.
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Reflections in a Tar Barrel by Jack Harte
Jack Harte's latest novel tells the story of Lofty, a supposed half-wit from the West of Ireland, who embarks on a campaign to thwart the designs of the Creator who has dealt him such a poor hand.
Combining the role of hawker in religious goods and keeper of a mobile brothel, his untutored mind arrives at his own mystical insights.
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Diacatholicon by Michael Phillips with graphics by Henry Sharpe
A collection of stories by a writer with a unique vision - illustrated by an artist similarly unique in vision and execution.
This volume resurrects the stories that made such a shocking impact in 1970s Dublin, as well as some previously unpublished pieces.
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Black PR and other acts by Toma Markov
Toma Markov is one of Bulgaria’s leading poets, and one of the most colourful characters writing in Eastern Europe today. He has won, amongst many prizes, the Bulgarian National Prize for Poetry in 2000. This collection is translated into English by Theodora Nikolaeva.
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SERAGLIO 55 by Georgy Pryakhin
'Seraglio 55' is a sequence of sketches based on Georgy Pryakhin's experiences traveling around the world and through life. Pryakhin is one of Russia's most important writers and has been a major personality in political life since the Soviet period.
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In the wake of the Bagger by Jack
Harte
This first novel by the master storyteller, which has been acclaimed as 'one of the great books about Ireland', is at once a social document and a meditation on change.
It is the enthralling story of the Dowd family who are uprooted from their home in Killeenduff, Co Sligo, to re-settle as economic migrants in the Midlands.
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The Big Pampering by Vergil
Nemchev
A collection of stories from a young award-winning Bulgarian writer.
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Lighthouse by Colm McHugh
Lighthouse is a first collection of poems from a new voice on the Irish literary scene.
It is a voice of quiet intelligence, orchestrating the rhythms of everyday life into a poetry that continues to resonate in the mind.
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Scarecrows at Newtownards by Celia de
Fréine
First volume of poetry in English by the Patrick Kavanagh Award winner who has published two acclaimed volumes in the Irish language.
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Lament for the Birds (CD) by Jack Harte
This CD of stories and songs, thematically structured and integrated, features the author reading some of his stories set in his native Sligo, and Sligo singer/musician, Carmel Gunning, singing his lyrics and playing the traditional airs to which the songs were set.
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From under Gogol's Nose by Jack Harte
This selection of stories demonstrates Harte's extraordinary versatility as he sets out to explore the possibilities of the short-story form.
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