That Old Country Music
by Kevin Barry
Reviewed by Naoise Dolan
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Catch Pat Shortt, Moe Dunford, Charlie Murphy, Tommy Tiernan, Peter Coonan and more in the dark comedy.
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Fiction by Kevin Barry: “He was tormented now by his own happiness. He could not imagine a future day without Katherine.”
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IN recent years, it is nigh on impossible to speak of fiction in Ireland without mentioning Kevin Barry. A truly unique literary voice, his novels ‘City Of Bohane’ and ‘Beetlebone’ have won a plethora of prizes both in Ireland and abroad and he is a highly respected writer of short stories worldwide with anthologies of …
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For the third episode of our podcast, Kevin Barry reads ‘The Woman With Too Many Mouths’ and ‘The Long Lost Father’, two “strange and elusive” stories by Cathy Sweeney. Cathy Sweeney is a writer living in Bray, County Wicklow. She has published short stories in The Stinging Fly, Southword, The Dublin Review, Icarus, Meridian, and … Continue reading "Kevin Barry Reads Cathy Sweeney"
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‘I’m feeling weird and animalistic and carnivorous,” Kevin Barry growls through a lupine grin. We’re sitting at a quiet window in Dublin’s Central Hotel a few days out from Christmas. B
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The tale of a wild journey into the world and a wild journey within, Beatlebone is a mystery box of a novel. It's a portrait of an artist at a time of creative strife. It is most of all a sad and beautiful comedy from one of the most gifted stylists now at work.
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A book centred around John Lennon and set off the west coast of Ireland has been awarded a prestigious literary prize worth £10,000.
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In his second novel, Barry (City of Bohane) imagines John Lennon in the year 1978, deep in a funk and trying to visit Dorinish, aka Beatle Island—an island in Clew Bay, in the west of Ireland
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Issue No. 150
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Toronto and The State of Grace RTÉ Drama On One presents a special season of radio drama by Limerick writers to mark the Limerick City of Culture, welcoming Kevin Barry for the first episode in the season.
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If you doubt your characters, your readers will doubt them too, so it is important to understand characters’ motivation and make their behaviour and speech convincing
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Sit back and relax with the Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, and his guest on this week's episode of What the Hell/Heaven Are We Doing?, novelist…
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Kevin Barry’s latest novel flits between the seamier side of Spain and his old haunts on Leeside, writes Marjorie Brennan.
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Canongate publishing director Francis Bickmore has signed a novel “drenched in sex, death and narcotics” from Goldsmiths and IMPAC winner Kevin Barry.
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Kevin Barry joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Brian Friel’s “The Saucer of Larks,” from a 1960 issue of the magazine.
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The Goldsmiths Prize was established in 2013 to celebrate the qualities of creative daring associated with the University and to reward fiction that breaks the mould or opens up new possibilities for the novel form.
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John Lennon heads to the west coast of Ireland in 1978 for scream therapy and solitude in this lyrical exploration of love, fate and death
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Sheila O’Flanagan is to make her YA debut, while Eoin Colfer tackles an adult graphic novel
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What’s happening on the Emerald Isles? Two new books, one short stories and the other a detective novel without a resolution, to the new fiction being written by Irish writers. By Andrew Fox.
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Kevin Barry finds a sly and lovely humour in the tale of an existentially conflicted Traveller
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