Cork Short Story Festival: New book launched on the late David Marcus 

The launch of a book about the late literary figure is one of the highlights of Cork International Short Story Festival

A tribute book to the late David Marcus will be launched at Cork International Short Story Festival. Picture: Billy Higgins

Self-effacing, courteous and always constructive in his criticism, literary editor David Marcus is the subject of a new book, David Marcus: Editing Ireland, published by the Stinging Fly which will be launched at the Cork International Short Story Festival. Edited by Paul Delaney and Deirdre Madden, both of whom teach creative writing at Trinity College Dublin, the publication of the book marks the centenary year of Cork-born Marcus’s birth. 

Born into the city’s small Jewish community in 1924, Marcus is best known for editing the New Irish Writing page in the Irish Press between 1968 and 1986. He also edited a number of anthologies and was himself a sometime writer. His brother Louis also made an impact in the arts world, becoming an accomplished filmmaker.