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David Marcus was Ireland’s most important and influential literary editor of the twentieth century.
Born into Cork’s small Jewish community in 1924, his remarkable career spanned sixty years and saw him work with countless writers of note from Edith Somerville and Liam O’Flaherty to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. While perhaps best remembered for editing the ‘New Irish Writing’ page in The Irish Press between 1968 and 1986, Marcus was also a translator, a novelist and the editor of numerous trailblazing anthologies.
Published to mark his centenary year, this miscellany – which includes poems, fiction, memoir and essays – celebrates this brilliant, self-effacing man, whose legacy and influence continue to shape our culture today.
Contributors:
Kevin Barry, Sebastian Barry, Dermot Bolger, Lucy Caldwell, Angus Cargill, Ciaran Carty , Harry Clifton, Tim Pat Coogan, Ita Daly, Mary Dorcey, Carlo Gébler, Anthony Glavin, Katrina Goldstone, Michael Harding, Desmond Hogan, Neil Jordan, Claire Keegan, Mary Leland, Colum McCann, Frank McGuinness, Eoin McNamee, Louis Marcus, Sarah Marcus, Declan Meade, Mary Morrissy, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, George O’Brien, Jo O’Donoghue, Mary O’Malley, Gerard Smyth and William Wall.
The Editors:
Paul Delaney is Associate Professor in the School of English and a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He has written widely on Irish literary culture and on short fiction, and his recent books include The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English (2019, co-edited Adrian Hunter) and Dublin Tales (2023, co-edited Eve Patten).
Deirdre Madden is a novelist whose works include Molly Fox’s Birthday and Time Present and Time Past. She is the recipient of a 2024 Windham Campbell Award for Fiction and is a member of Aosdána. She is also a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, where she taught Creative Writing for over twenty years. A study of her work, Deirdre Madden: New Critical Perspectives (eds. Anne Fogarty and Marisol Morales-Ladrón), was published in 2022 by Manchester University Press.
