Emma Byrne

Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O’Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald. She lives in a thatched house in Co. Wexford.

  • Dubliners

    Our take on ‘Dubliners’ by James Joyce

    Our wonderful designer Emma Byrne gives her thoughts on designing the jacket for our new edition of Dubliners by James Joyce, which was published last year as part of Dublin One City One Book 2012.

  • The Most Beautiful Letter in the World
  • Download Chapter two -- a walk in the park

Best-Loved Irish Ballads - Great Songs from the Irish Folk Tradition

Spirit of the Titanic

Teaching Resources: free to view and download

Spirit of the Titanic

  • Download Teaching Guides: Teaching guide to the book by Peter Heaney.

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Spirit of the Titanic
Written by Nicola Pierce, Illustrated by Emma Byrne
Ulysses
Written by James Joyce, Introduced by Bob Joyce, Illustrated by Emma Byrne
Ulysses
Written by James Joyce, Introduced by Bob Joyce, Illustrated by Emma Byrne
Best-Loved Oscar Wilde
Edited by John Wyse Jackson ( dec'd), Illustrated by Emma Byrne
Tea and Talk
Written by Alice Taylor, Photographs by Emma Byrne
Home For Christmas
Written by Alice Taylor, Photographs by Emma Byrne
And Life Lights Up

Moments that Matter

Written by Alice Taylor, Photographs by Emma Byrne
Best-Loved Irish Ballads

Great Songs from the Irish Folk Tradition

Written by Emma Byrne and Eoin O'Brien
P is for Poetry

Poems from Irish Poets

Compiled by Seamus Cashman, Illustrated by Corrina Askin and Alan Clarke and Emma Byrne
Books from the Attic

Treasures from an Irish Childhood

Written by Alice Taylor, Photographs by Emma Byrne
Tea for One

A Celebration of Little Things

Written by Alice Taylor, Photographs by Emma Byrne
Irish Thatched Cottages

A Living Tradition

Irish Home Essentials
Written by Séamus Ó Conaill, Illustrated by Emma Byrne
The Nana
Written by Alice Taylor, Photographs by Emma Byrne