The Drift of Memory

“A deeply humane collection exploring memory, migration, and resilience across generations. These poems trace everyday lives shaped by faith, grief, and love.”
  Dr Marc Scully, academic and writer on Irish identity

“These poems honour the lives of women who crossed seas and shaped families. Rich with emotional truth, they evoke legacies and longing with lyrical grace.”
    Dr Eamonn O’Neal OBE DL, broadcaster and journalist

“A beautiful tribute to the women who carried ‘home in their voices.’ I found it very moving and left a tear on every page.”
   Sean Cooney, songwriter and member of The Young’uns

“Emotionally rich and thematically coherent, these poems hold space for collective experience with tenderness and quiet authority.”
    Isabelle Kenyon, author and founder of Fly on the Wall Press


Not Yet Ash

“Dermot Murphy brings us on an emotional journey through the imagined words of those who were left behind. The pain, pride, and humanity in these poems are heartbreaking. He has put the human voice back into the narrative of 1916 with rare sensitivity.”
    Liz Gillis, Historian

“These are moving poems. It’s wonderful to see the richness of the archive for the revolutionary period explored in poetic form and entirely appropriate, given the importance of culture and art to this generation.”
    Fearghal McGarry, Professor of Modern Irish History, Queen’s University Belfast


In the Quiet Light

“When you read these poems you cannot fail to see life differently.”
    Reverend David Ireland, Former Chief Executive Francis House Children’s Hospice