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This is the final book in a set of three volumes of working people\u2019s writing from contemporary Ireland. It follows on from a poetry anthology, Children of the Nation<\/a><\/strong> and a prose anthology, From the Plough to the Stars<\/a><\/strong>, all edited by Jenny Farrell and available here.<\/p>\n The children\u2019s stories in this book are packed with humanity, tenderness, and wisdom. The authors present children and adults who confront wrongs, challenge superstition and injustice, and who often see further than others around them. The heroines and heroes in these stories are always filled with a sense of the common good, highlighting the qualities necessary to make society a fairer, better place, a home for a happy future, a T\u00edr na n\u00d3g, the Land of the Ever Young. Such a place can only materialise in the absence of wars, of profit-driven greed with its contempt for equality, humanity and the environment \u2014 a place where instead the common good is the measure of society.<\/p>\n Land of the Ever Young <\/strong>has been beautifully illustrated by the artist Karen Dietrich. Her images comment on and expand the humanist themes contained in the texts and help make them truly memorable for all readers, children and adults alike.<\/p>\n Land of the Ever Young: An Anthology of Working People\u2019s Writing for Children from Contemporary Ireland, edited by Jenny Farrell with illustrations by Karen Dietrich, ISBN<\/em> 978-1-912710-43-0, 12 Euros\/\u00a311 plus p. and p.\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n From the Republic of Ireland and Europe generally…..<\/p>\n