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Slipping by John Toomey review: a novel take on murder

Slipping by John Toomey review:  a novel take on murder | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
There’s nothing generic about John Toomey’s story of a teacher who kills his wife
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Beheading the Virgin Mary, and Other Stories | Dalkey Archive Press

Beheading the Virgin Mary, and Other Stories | Dalkey Archive Press | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Enter Liam O'Donnell. In stories both humorous and harrowing, McLaughlin often focuses on this boy from the north of Ireland, living in Scotland. The zigzag...
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LRB · Jonathan Coe · Clutching at Railings: Late Flann O’Brien

LRB · Jonathan Coe · Clutching at Railings: Late Flann O’Brien | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
There were many wonderful running jokes in the first few years of ‘Cruiskeen Lawn’, the Irish Times column written, on and off, for almost a quarter of a century by Flann O’Brien (or, if you prefer, Myles na Gopaleen, or Brian O’Nolan).
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The Dogs of Inishere bv Alannah Hopkins - Dalkey Archive Press

The Dogs of Inishere bv Alannah Hopkins - Dalkey Archive Press | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
The Dogs of Inishere collects stories from across Alannah Hopkin’s thirty-year career as a fiction and travel writer. The stories presented here mov
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Read Extract from Rambling Jack by Micheal O Conghaile

Read Extract from Rambling Jack by Micheal O Conghaile | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
This novella recounts the imagination of a lonely old man who becomes obsessed by a beautiful young girl in his village.
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'A novel with a voice of its own' - From Out of the City by John Kelly

'A novel with a voice of its own' - From Out of the City by John Kelly | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
'Kelly’s writing has its echoes of all that has gone before. From Joyce and O’Brien, even a touch of Beckett’s Murphy in the opening pages, Ireland’s trilogy of modernist writers and their legacy h...
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