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Emma Byrne

Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O’Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald. She lives in a thatched house in Co. Wexford.

  • Dubliners

    Our take on ‘Dubliners’ by James Joyce

    Our wonderful designer Emma Byrne gives her thoughts on designing the jacket for our new edition of Dubliners by James Joyce, which was published last year as part of Dublin One City One Book 2012.

  • The Most Beautiful Letter in the World

  • pdf-logoDownload Chapter two -- a walk in the park

Best-Loved Irish Ballads - Great Songs from the Irish Folk Tradition

Spirit of the Titanic

Spirit of the Titanic

  • Audiobook: Prologue - read by Ruairi Conaghan:

Teaching Resources: free to view and download

Spirit of the Titanic

  • pdf-logoDownload Teaching Guides: Teaching guide to the book by Peter Heaney.