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The Irish Literary Times
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Up-to-Date Coverage of The World of Irish Literature
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Gerard Beirne
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His sister Bella hardly featured in Sean O'Casey's autobiography but Morrissy fills in the missing years
The playwright Sean O Casey composed six volumes of autobiography but didn't reserve much space for his sister, Bella, whom he killed off at least a decade earlier than her actual demise during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918. Fifteen years older, and practically a second mother to him, her principal sin was that of marrying a common soldier, thus throwing away the advantages of an above-average education "for the romance of a crimson coat". Morrissy's novel restores the missing years and invents some fairly convincing extenuating circumstances 
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Award-winning author Emma Donoghue of The Room and Astray offers up a tempting selection of books to take on vacation.
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Young Skins, by Colin Barrett
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Irish writer Roddy Doyle clearly loves to talk - and his characters do too, in their own lively, expletive-ridden way. Doyle's new novel "The Guts" brings back Jimmy Rabbitte from the "Barrytown Trilogy".
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Legends of the Fall series: Novelist Joseph O’Connor reads an extract from his short story appearing in the Weekend edition of The Irish Times
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World War One photographs, the Celtic Tiger and the path to progress have all influenced Deirdre Madden’s latest novel as she tells Philip Cummins.
STRIDING across the cobble-stoned pathways of Trinity College, Deirdre Madden appears to be at one with Dublin. It’s interesting to watch because Madden is widely characterized as a uniquely Northern Irish novelist, best-known as the writer of One By One in the Darkness, set during the week of the IRA ceasefire in 1994. The Antrim native, who has lived in Dublin for decades, with her husband, poet Harry Clifton, is now on novel number eight, the recently published, Time Present and Time Past. It’s a novel which has been written in-between teaching creative writing at the central Dublin hub meaning its gestation was “a very slow process” as she’s tried to balance her workload. “It’s not always easy,” she says, “so I am very happy to get this latest book finished.”
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