Re-formatted for Spring 2007 the ever-popular pocket guide series has been expanded in its attractive new format. "Great Irish Writers" provides a parade of the biographies of some of Ireland's greatest literary figures. Some figures are little known outside of Ireland such as Forest Reid, Gerald Griffin, or Joyce Cary but others such as Seamus Heaney, James Joyce or W.B. Yeats are famous worldwide. Martin Wallace celebrates the best of Ireland's poets, playwrights and novelists. His cast includes such favourites as Dean Swift; George Farquhar, Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan and many more.