This anthology of the Irish writings of the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen gathers together, for the first time, her Irish writings including her lectures, essays, reviews and reports and includes an extensive introductory essay by the editor as well as annotations and a critical bibliography. These pieces chart her illuminating relationship with the new Irish state from her perspective as an Anglo-Irish novelist and provide an account of her life-long engagement with her own country from 1929 until the late 1960s.

100 artworks have been chosen for this beautifully illustrated book to represent each year from 1916 to 2015. They trace the story of Ireland's creative output from the revolutionary period until today. The story that emerges through these 100 works is not one of artists gradually finding their place of honour in the republic; on the contrary, it is a story of never-ending argument, of works that are disliked, rejected, fought over, even painted over. Instead of the artists supporting the state and the state supporting the artists, it is a case of the artists challenging and upsetting the...