Road books was created in 1992 by writer Judy Kravis and artist Peter Morgan after a road trip from Ireland to Italy (if in doubt, drive south).
Road books and its imprints, boreen books, highway books and byways productions, are produced in Inniscarra, County Cork, alongside planting trees and tending bees (if in doubt, stay at home). Editions range from one to several hundred, both handmade and commercially printed.

83 words chosen on the spur of the moment by 83 first year students at Limerick School of Art and Design, recombined, reconnected and disguised by Peter Morgan and Judy Kravis.
The word ‘serendipity’ derives from an old name for Ceylon, which is itself an old name for Sri Lanka. Horace Walpole first used the word in 1754 after reading an old tale called ‘The Prince of Serendip’. Serendipity means discovering something you aren’t searching for. Serendipity is not just a question of luck, Walpole insisted, but also of sagacity.

20 pp, 150 x 150mm, stapled, 20 colour pictures, Edition of 201. February 2013.

The people who talk about their lives in this book represent a creative, dissident Ireland. They are artists, writers, musicians, farmers, travellers and monks, who have chosen to live and work in ways that are experimental, exploratory, and always singular. They represent an alternative view of the possibilities of life in Ireland, a bracing antidote to the consumer society. 32 colour and black and white photographs.

192pp 170 x 240mm, paperback, Edition of 2000 The Lilliput Press, 1999

Handmade box, 530 x 655mm, with Egyptian silk detailing on front, sides and internal pocket. In the manner of an Egyptian pyramid, the box contains 9 cibachrome prints, black window mounted, of collaged photographs and drawings, and, in the internal pocket a clothbound, hardback book, printed white on black, like the stars.

The box opens out flat and reveals when empty a gold line drawing of pyramid and stars on black cloth framed with blue.

Hallo my friend! Welcome to where you are now.

I was thrown out of my first art class for being a disruptive influence. I think this has something to do with why I stole Creative Ireland, the visual arts and drilled it with 101 holes.

240pp, 190 x 250mm, drilled with 101 holes.
Edition of one. A roadwork, November 2012.

The Tate invites. You do not send in proposals. To write a proposal for the Turbine Hall is to dream seriously. This is a startling and provocative range of proposals, most of them from Ireland, some within the bounds of possibility, some beyond. Contributors grapple with abstractions like truth and fear as well as with the dense physicality and absurdity of the world we live in. The Turbine Hall is occupied by cars or carcasses, sharks or poltergeists, by energies of the mind.

48pp 175 x 223mm, thread-sewn, french flaps, 22 b+w illustrations, pbk. Edition of 501. November 2011.

A rare insight into the life and banter of a bunch of lads whose work the public takes for granted – until the day they’re needed. Siren roaring, blue light flashing. Is it as exciting as a child imagines? Over one hundred firemen photographed and interviewed, their words edited to form one voice. Commissioned by Cork City Council.

96pp, sewn, 226 x 226mm, pbk, french flaps, colour and b/w photographs. 2001

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