Books published by Colin Smythe Ltd

White-on-white embroidery in various forms has been practiced in Ireland for several centuries. Mountmellick work is probably the best-known style of Irish white embroidery and is named after the town where the craft was developed in the early decades of the nineteenth century.

This classic on the subject is dedicated to two people who greatly influenced the author W.B. Yeats and AE, perhaps the greatest mystic and visionary of this century.

A translation from the Latin of one of the most famous and enduring stories of western Christendom, the Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, written in Ireland perhaps as early as the year 800.

Maud Gonne MacBride is part of Irish history: her foundation of the women's group Inghinidhe na hEireann. the Daughters of Ireland, in 1900, was the key that effectively opened the door of politics in the twentieth century to Irishwomen.

Both a pictorial record of one of Ireland's crafts and a practical manual setting out the steps in construction of a range of traditional motifs; this edition has clarified instructions for nine-looped flower; flower, shamrock scroll, wheel, horse shoe, fern, and mitred fine lace motif.