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Leland Bardwell is one of the senior figures of Irish writing: a novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer whose fiction has appeared on bestseller lists abroad and is accorded classic status at home. Bardwell's keen-eyed, unflinching short stories, were originally published in 1987, and deal with a range of topics of considerable relevance to readers in our own difficult times. As fresh and relevant as when they first appeared, these stories, like Bardwell's poetry, record what Eilean Ni Chuilleanain has called "the shocks of our time, the private impacts and the historic changes."

This no-holds barred account of Leland Bardwell s life spans five decades and unveils the shroud of innocence that often clouds our vision of the past. Bardwell confronts her life head on, confessing bygone sins and exorcising old demons. However, despite the hardships of her life, this is far from a misery memoir, as A Restless Life celebrates the artistic, and often times anarchistic life of one of Ireland s hidden, literary treasures.A young girl returns with her family from India to live in Leixlip, Co Kildare. For Leland Bardwell, like so many of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, the realities...

The fifth collection of poems by one of the senior figures in contemporary Irish poetry

Leland Bardwell is one of the senior figures in Irish writing, widely admired for the energy, wit and daring of her poems, plays, short stories and novels. Following the reissue in 2012 of her short story collection, Different Kinds of Love, twenty-five years after its first publication, Them's Your Mammy's Pills brings together the work included in two previous Dedalus Press poetry collections, Dostoevsky's Grave (1991) and The Noise of Masonry Settling (2006). The former is the source of a number of poems that have become classics of 1980s Dublin, among them 'The Bingo Bus', 'Clondalkin...