Janet McLean

In this beautifully illustrated anthology more than fifty acclaimed Irish novelists, playwrights and poets - including Seamus Heaney, Colm Tóibín and Roddy Doyle - explore ideas and tell stories about art, love, family, dreams, memory and places using pictures from the over 15,000 works of art in the National Gallery of Ireland as inspiration. The artworks and the literary responses to them are wonderfully perceptive and, at times, deeply personal, inviting us to look at art in new lights and from different angles. The book is published to mark the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland. Janet McLean is Curator of European Art, 1850 - 1950, at the National Gallery of Ireland. 'Beautifully produced ... a perceptive, original and enjoyable anthology' - Irish Arts Review

Irish Writers on Art

Lines of Vision

Alison Quentin-Baxter

"This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, . . . This precious stone set in the silver sea, . . . This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, . . . – William Shakespeare, King Richard II New Zealand is a democratic constitutional monarchy, one of Queen Elizabeth II’s sixteen realms. This book provides a comprehensive account of how the Queen, the Governor-General and the Crown interact with our democratically-elected leaders under New Zealand’s unwritten constitution. The authors explain how these islands in the South Pacific were first brought within Queen Victoria’s dominions, the arrangements then made for their future government, and how those arrangements developed over time with the pressure for democracy and responsible government to become New Zealand’s current constitution. They discuss the responsibilities of, and interactions between, the key office-holders: the Sovereign herself; her representative, the Governor-General; the impersonal and perpetual Crown, and the Prime Minister, other Ministers and Members of Parliament. All of them affect in some way the government which runs the country day to day. In an afterword, the authors examine some of the key issues to be considered should New Zealand become a republic. The parliamentary democracy that we take for granted can conceal New Zealand’s ultimate constitutional underpinnings in the monarchy. But, as the authors make clear, the monarchy’s continuing role in New Zealand’s constitution is significant. And understanding the roles of the Queen, the Governor-General and the Crown will be critical as we look forward to debates about the possibility of a republic in New Zealand.

The Sovereign, the Governor-General, the Crown

This Realm of New Zealand

Two ducks don't want to play with Josh the dog, until he finds a pool to splash around in.

Josh and the Ducks

Andrew McLean

Josh the dog and the little boy who owns him head off on an imaginative adventure to find the Monster of Mud.

Janet McLean

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