The publication of Invasions - Lebor Gabála Ýrenn - is a compilation of manuscripts describing the very particular discovery of eire ('on the 15th, on a Saturday') following the construction and the Flood. The Pop-Up ebook of Invasions is Fiona Farrell's poetic reaction to a six-month remain in eire as inaugural recipient of the Rathcoola Residency in County Cork. half travelogue, half relations checklist, half music and fantasy and background rewritten, this assortment revels and laments in equivalent degree in a panorama deeply inscribed with narrative. The poems within the Pop-up publication draw seriously and vividly at the panorama, heritage and mythology of eire, sharing a feeling of discovery, yet in addition they make connections with domestic, New Zealand, early life. therefore a canoe within the nationwide Museum, 'Black boat from a brown bog', recollects the waka: 'You examine yours as i feel of/mine, atmosphere sail of their black/canoe'. The poet additionally recalls her Irish father now useless who emigrated to New Zealand and the entire many migrations or 'invasions' of the earlier and the current. and she or he adapts and transforms a number of old Irish texts, rewriting their tales for a latest global; the voluminous notes are a desirable Irish schooling in themselves. The Pop-Up booklet of Invasions is a fantastically developed, considerate and unique book.