Barrie Cooke: Irish Museum of Modern ArtThe artist Barrie Cooke celebrated his 80th birthday in 2011. To mark the occasion, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and The Lilliput Press have joined forces to produce this beautifully illustrated monograph, with over eighty full colour plates, a catalogue listing and bibliography. Its publication accompanied a major exhibition of his work at IMMA, Dublin (later touring to the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris).

chronicling the collapse of Northern Irish society

personal histories and restless identities

Shaw and Wilde

His mother is a poet

Andrews’ account of the two Dublins of his youth – the bustle

in heart-breaking detail

The islanders’ sea-girt culture has been crucially shaped by Middle Eastern as well as by European civilizations

Dublin was always a hybrid place

damned as an informer

on Omey and alone on High Island

In Is That All There Is

Eden Halt describes a childhood spent on a remote coast of Northern Ireland