Description
Counterparts: A Synergy of Law and Literature edited by Danielle McLaughlin.
Counterparts is published in paperback and in two special limited editions. All profits are in aid of Peter McVerry Trust.
Cover Art: Detail from State of Play by Elva Mulchrone. Oil, acrylic & ink on canvas, 83cm x 83cm
Cover Design: Fergal Condon
The anthology is arranged as a series of pairings, with writing by contemporary Irish lawyer-writers paired with extracts from a legal judgment of the writers’ choosing. The writers also offer their reasons for choosing that particular judgment. In some cases a law report may have prompted a new piece of writing; in others, writers may see resonances of theme or language between the legal writing of the judgment and the themes they seek to explore in their own work; or it may simply be that they were drawn to a fascinating human story told in fine language, as the law reports so often deliver!
Counterparts is a mix of previously unpublished work and reprinted material; it comprises short stories, novel extracts, poetry, and personal essay/memoir. Contributors come from a broad range of legal backgrounds and include High Court judges, solicitors, law librarians, barristers, legal academics, among others.
Contributors:
Andrea Carter, Dominique Cleary, Stephen Darcy Collins, Catherine Conroy, Brian Cregan, Yvonne Cullen, Madeleine D’Arcy, Clodagh Beresford Dunne, Rachel Fehily, Adrian Hardiman, Maria Hoey, Hugo Kelly, Catherine Kirwan, Lauren Lawler, Eoin McNamee, John Mee, Michael Mee, Cian Murphy, Annemarie Neary, John O’Donnell, Olivia Smith and Rory Walsh.
Printing costs for Counterparts were generously sponsored by:
Arthur Cox
Gartlan Furey
Lavelle Solicitors
Maples and Calder
Mason Hayes & Curran
Matheson
McCann FitzGerald
Philip Lee
Ronan Daly Jermyn
William Fry
