Connemara Project

Over a number of years now Occasional Press has run a Connemara project, publishing books in collaboration with Ballynahinch Castle. Visual artists and poets have been invited by the press to create images and poetry in response to aspects of that wild Atlantic domain. The resulting books are published in hardback special limited editions, incorporating an original artist’s print and in standard paperback editions without the print.

These books are not available to buy online, but can be purchased by contacting Bríd O’Malley at: Ballynahinch Castle

THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT BY TONY CURTIS

Limited Edition hardback an original print by David Lilburn and Tony Curtis €45.00 + P&P
Paperback without the print €22.00 + P&P

On the 15th of June 1919, a Sunday morning, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown landed their Vickers Atlantic Vimy in Connemara, close to the Marconi Transmitting Station on Derrigimlagh bog, a few miles beyond the town of Clifden.
A plane had completed the very first non-stop flight of 1,900 miles across the vast emptiness of the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland.
In a weave of archive documentation with his original narratives and poems, poet Tony Curtis explores the remarkable story of Alcock and Brown’s daring and dangerous journey into the unknown. His vivid account is packed with fascinating details of the flight and also gives us insights into the personalities of the two men, picking up their lives in the wake of the First World War - a war in which they had both fought and which had finally ground to its end barely seven months before they undertook their renowned flight out into the Newfoundland night and on into History.

This Flight Tonight is published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Alcock and Brown flight by Occasional Press in collaboration with Ballynahinch Castle.

The book is published in a paperback edition of 500 and in a special hardback limited edition of 150 carrying an original print by David Lilburn and Tony Curtis, 125 of which are available for sale.

For purchase please contact Brid O'Malley at Ballynahinch Castle

MONTENOTTE AND FOUNTAINSTOWN BY DOROTHY CROSS

Two related books with over 196 pp in each book. 85 and 96 images respectively. Full colour.

Hardbacks are priced at €220.00 + P&P.
and paperbacks at €45.00 + P&P.

Published in a slipcased, special hardback, limited edition of 150, (which also includes a folio containing an original print made especially for this edition by the artist); and in a slipcased, paperback, edition of 850 (without print).

For purchase please contact Brid O'Malley at Ballynahinch Castle

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