The Appleman and the Poet 2026 ‘Family Matters’ addresses the Butler

‘Family Matters’ addresses the Butler clan at home and abroad

chronicling his family's history over 300 years at Kilmacurragh in County Wicklow (now a celebrated arboretum in the care of the State)

the author fights his way to a kind of rest

the second volume of a remarkable trilogy

Swift’s Most Valuable Friend with that between Swift and Stella (Esther Johnson)

The Appleman and the Poet 2026 ‘Family Matters’ addresses the ButlerThe Appleman and the Poet, the fifth volume of Hubert Butlers essays, completes a thirty year odyssey embarked upon by The Lilliput Press in 1984. Our flagship author has finally come home, welcomed by Fintan OToole in his foreword: One of the great joys of these essays is the discovery of sentences as sharp and lithe as a Toledo rapier. Beginning with Russian Dispatches 19321946, Butler gives an evocative description from the viewpoint of a bourgeois