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Published 1954: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original green cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 298 clean and bright pages, mild speckled foxing on the edges. Boards slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. (HQ493)

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David Marcus was for more than 60 years a major figure in the Irish literary landscape and considered the most important literary editor in Ireland during the second half of the twentieth century. He co-founded the journal Irish Writing in 1946 which was hugely successful in attracting literary contributions from many well-known writers. This and the Poetry Ireland Journal which he created in 1948 both fostered the skills of generations of young, aspiring writers. He established the “New Irish Writing” page in the Irish Press which he edited from 1968 until he retired in 1986 and is credited with the discovery of many of Ireland’s best-known writers.

His first novel To Next Year in Jerusalem was published in 1954. A Land Not Theirs (1986), was set in Cork’s Jewish community at the height of the Black and Tan presence and its sequel, A Land in Flames (1988) was set in Kerry during the War of Independence. Both were well-crafted popular successes. These were followed by his short-story collection Who Ever Heard of an Irish Jew? In most of these, and in his autobiography: Leaves from the Diary of a Hyphenated Jew (2001) and its sequel Buried Memories (2004), he explored what he called “the ongoing trauma” of juggling a “hyphenated heritage of being a Jew in Ireland. His poetry collection Lost and Found was published in 2007. Google Books...