Tomas Mac Siomoin

Biologist by training, journalist and author by vocation, Tom s Mac S om in takes a provocative look at 21st century Irish society with "The Broken Harp". Using the insights of modern biology, social psychology, sociolinguistics and historical analysis he explains contemporary Irishness in terms that are both original and compelling.

Originally published in Irish Gaelic, Is Stacey Pregnant? is a 21st century rebirth of Orwell's famous Animal Farm pigs. Mac S om in's porkies preside over a brave new world of popular powerlessness. Celebrity gossip, inane talk shows and, above all, the death of meaningful communication, combine in an apocalyptic vision of Irish society, trundling along in reverse gear towards a destination that is as unconventional as it is unexpected. Darkly humorous and provocative, its cold satirical eye exposes the murky machinations of the political class. Is Stacey Pregnant? is the definitive cathartic send-up of Ireland 's Post-Celtic Tiger hangover.

Three wildly imaginative essays by Irish satirists Jonathan Swift, Liam O'Flaherty, and Tom s Mac S om in. Written in three different centuries, they propose grotesque and outrageous solutions to the social problems created by the established political order, especially unemployment and austerity. These essays entertain and shock while focusing attention on those very problems.

Science fiction, medievalism and corporate intrigue combine in "The Cartographer's Apprentice". An Irish scientist, employed by the multinational Martel, discovers and tries to exploit the secret of a strange Catalan village in this formidable work of metafiction. The Cartographer's Apprentice is a translation from the Irish Gaelic of "An Tionscadal", winner of the 2006 Oireachtas award. It has been described as a "radical new departure in Irish fiction".

Diary of an Ant is the first English language translation of C n lae seang in agus sc alta eile, the critically acclaimed, award-winning collection of short stories by Dublin-born author Tom s Mac S om in. With his cultural roots in Ireland 's Gaelic West, Mac S om in takes a darkly humorous look at the failure and the innate dishonesty of most inter-human relating against a backdrop of ultimate absurdity that he sees as underlying all human experience.