The Stone Street Press

“Many who go out for wool come home shorn”
With calligraphed, lino-print labels & hand colored initial capitals.
Japanese 4-hole binding,
Canson Mei-Teintes covers.
60 pp., 8vo

Price: $26.00

The most recent collection with 9/11 essay.

Price: $26.00

A fond memoir of one summer in 1949 with my father near Golden, County Tipperary.
Irish variations on a theme: young boy, ‘heroic’ father with a passion for dryfly trout fishing –and for words. With 20 pen and ink drawings

Note: I am a great believer in family biography –for everyone. Nothing contributes more to a family’s sense of itself (and especially in a generation or two! )

It doesn’t really matter to me if I don’t sell one copy.
Japanese 4 Hole binding. 52pp.
Natural Oat color handmade specialty paper cover.

Price: $26.50

“Invite some people into your parlor, and they’ll come into your bedroom”.
With calligraphed, lino-print labels & hand colored initial capitals.
Japanese 4-hole binding,
Canson Mei-Teintes covers.
60 pp., 8vo

Price: $26.00

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“If it’s drowning you’re after, don’t torment yourself with shallow water.”
“A lucky person has only to be born.”
“Good luck is better than early rising.”
“It’s for her own good that the cat purrs.”
“Listen to the river and you’ll catch a trout.”
“When your hand is in the dog’s mouth, withdraw it gently.”
“He who is slow to give a loan is good at advising you.”
“A bad reaper never got a good reaping hook.”

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“If you ask the rabbi, he will surely find something wrong.”
"If you are going to eat pork, make it good and fat".
With calligraphed, lino-print labels & hand colored initial capitals.
Japanese 4-hole binding,
Canson Mei-Teintes covers.
60 pp., 8vo

Price: $26.00

By Eileen Dubh O’Connell

A New Translation by Malachi McCormick.Full-length 390-line version.
One of our great Irish language poems, the tragic story of Art & Eileen Dubh, his wife.
After years of feuding with Sheriff Morris, Art was shot dead in 1773 near Macroom, Co. Cork
(I know the town well: first cousins lived there.)

Remarkably, Eileen’s fierce, tender caoine (lament) was completely extemporized, an ancient Irish tradition carried on by gifted ‘keening women’ the mná caointe.

In a long essay I explore the rich history of the O’Connell household at Derrynane, focusing on Eileen Dubh (aunt of Liberator Daniel O’Connell ) and her mother, the extraordinary Maire Dubh, great matriarch, woman of the house, poet and bean caointe.
Reviews:
“You’ll have to go a long way to find a more beautiful book.” Cork Examiner.
Description:
Japanese 4-hole binding. 60pp 8vo

Price: $24.00