Press Release

December 1, 2006
Contact: Sheryl Hayes
PH: 434-924-6562 FAX: 434-296-4714
Email:  sheryl@virginia.edu

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities announces new releases
to its online store, available for the holiday season

                                                                 
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) announces the release of Re-Imagining Ireland, a compilation of essays that grew out of the 2003 Re-Imagining Ireland conference in Charlottesville. The book, edited by Andrew Wyndham of the VFH and published by University of Virginia Press, explores Irish personalities through works of literature, politics, social activism, and the arts to move well beyond stereotypical views of Ireland. Now available for purchase online, the book also includes a DVD narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt (http://www.virginiafoundation.org).   
Additional books, music CDs, and films available in the VFH store offer valuable holiday gift ideas. Your purchase doubles by also supporting the humanities in Virginia. Look for the following on the VFH website:

• Beautiful, limited edition letter press works from the likes of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rita Dove and Virginia Poet Laureate George Garrett.
• The first release of the VFH sponsored Crooked Road Series, No Speed Limit, features a hot, young bluegrass band that has quickly risen to fame in Southwest Virginia with Bluegrass Lullaby. Other musical offerings include fiddler Montana Young; Tidewater’s own Paschall Brothers, and acoustic blues singer Nat Reese.
• Don’t Grieve After Me- The Black Experience in Virginia 1619 – 2005is a groundbreaking pictorial narrative of the African American experience in Virginia, including in-depth essays by notable historians on early Virginia and the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
• Tough Times Companion Vol. 2, is a collection of poetry, essays and stunning photographs by and for people coping with difficult times.

The VFH brings the humanities more fully into Virginia's public life, assisting individuals and communities from across the Commonwealth in their efforts to understand the past, confront important issues in the present, and shape a promising future.  For more on the VFH visit www.virginiafoundation.org.