Scribendi: Portraits of Irish Writers 1985-2025Featuring over 100 captivating portraits of many of Irelands greatest contemporary writers, alongside conversations with each on their writing life, Scribendi is a landmark book of portraits of Irish writers by internationally renowned photographer Steve Pyke. I come from the English Midlands, but I became a photographer in Ireland. I made my first portraits in Dublin in the early 1980s. It was immediately apparent to me then how important Irish

Outwards always

The revival of the Irish language

Seosamh Mac Grianna pens his reaction to an anglicised

and on the Sligo landscape that so influenced his imagination

A sense of family

he concludes that our cultural pasts still sponsor ‘ecological havoc’

the constant companion of a young Ross Skelton is his taciturn grandfather

Swift’s Most Valuable Friend with that between Swift and Stella (Esther Johnson)

just before the country went into lockdown

many hitherto unseen

marital betrayal and a suicide

There is hardly a town in Ireland untouched by William Dargan