I just heard the RTE.ie report announcing the death of David Marcus:
RTÉ News: Literary editor David Marcus dies
Thus a short appreciation, though my area would not be the short story.
He was also an editor of Poetry Ireland (now PIR) ,
This is the PIR Archives and Translations page :
Poetry Ireland | Publications
and now they have developed the tech into both forum and Twitter, as well as having an excellent
Tangled Web literary Resources Page, upon which my bloggie appears.
Thats the thing with small concerns like PIR/éigse éireann there's a huge bespoke industry working
on many levels of writing, including some of the world's best publishers and translators- Hugh Maxton,
Umberto Fiori, N
Chuilleanin (amongst others), whose work in European literature and poetry
really is outstanding. It was people like Marcus who confessed to just quitting for thirty years who
Made writers- like Lavin, Enright, Toibin and Mc Gahern.
All of them an absolute joy to read. Thus for those amongst us who like to read Good Irish Short Stories ,
I highly recommend the opus of Lavin and Mc Gahern (if the telly can be switched off a while). I really Like
In a cafe and
The Patriot Son by Lavin and The Collected McGahern.
Catalogue here :
David Editor Marcus books on Naughton Booksellers
For people interested in excellent poetic translations:
Between, by Agnes Nemes Nagy, trans Hugh Maxton, Corvina Press (Budapest) and Dedalus (Dublin). Obituary: John McGahern | Books | The Guardian