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The Irish Literary Times provides up-to-date coverage of Irish literary news and events in a magazine format via articles available online. The site is curated by Gerard Beirne an Irish poet and novelist based in Sligo. He has published six books of poetry and fiction. His novel The Eskimo in the Net (Marion Boyars Publishers) was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and was selected by the Literary Editor of the Daily Express as his Book of the Year “scandalously ignored by the Man Booker judges...”. His recent collection of stories was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. http://www.gerardbeirne.com
Maebh Long, editor of 'The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien', on the writer's riotous letters to the press and revealing private correspondence, and how a theft almost robbed us of them
There is nothing realer than writing for people experiencing the world for the first time without the benefit and shield of experience
Our Sleeping Women I think of my grandmothers, their faces etched in mine, their strength sleeps in my bones. We meet in fields of crows, their voices speak through the wind. Old graves sloped down from our farm. As a child, I played house, tea sets on tombs, innocent, listening to spirits. Daughters…
Northern Ireland poet Maria McManus’ novel idea for getting us all hooked on literature goes international tomorrow as 65 poets from Ireland, Europe and beyond pen poems on labels and l
The poetry of a great master such as William Butler Yeats marvels us. His written words leap off the page and dance. Evocative images and subtle emotions emerge from the act of reading it.His poem "The Pilgrim", from New Poems, is short and succinct but delves deeply into Yeats's journey for the ...
O, Miami in partnership with The Betsy - South Beach, Culture Ireland, and Poetry Ireland presents a poetry reading featuring three of Ireland's best contemporary poets: Colette Bryce, Julie Morrissy, and Paul Perry. Colette Bryce is an award-winning poet from Northern Ireland. She currently lives in Newcastle upon Tyne where she works as a freelance writer and editor. Her latest collection The Whole & Rain-domed Universe (2014), which draws on her experience of growing up in Derry during the Troubles, received a special Christopher Ewart-Biggs Award in memory of Seamus Heaney. It was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, and the Roehampton Prize. Julie Morrissy is from Dublin and was named one of Poetry Ireland's "Rising Generation" poets for 2016. Her first collection Where, the Mile End is forthcoming with BookThug, Canada. Paul Perry is the author of five collections of poetry, including Gunpowder Valentine: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2014).
Lisa Dwan and Colm Tóibín
April 23, 2018 -- The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has selected its 20th class of Fellows: independent scholars, academics, and creative writers, whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Chosen out of 397 applicants from 45 countries, the 2018 class of Cullman Center Fellows includes:
Leontia Flynn’s The Radio is out this month, so WFU Press interns gathered to ask the poet more about her newest collection. Written in three sections, The Radio explores the boundaries of home and family life from Flynn’s experience caring for her infant child, to coping with her father’s death, to remembering the influenc
Almost 70 years since the University of Buffalo bought the greatest collection of Joycean materials ever assembled, plans are afoot to bring the priceless manuscripts, first editions, notebooks, letters and even canes and eye-glasses of the famed author to Ireland.
As the change of seasons begins to stir, a mature demonstration of the art of being artless
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For Poetry Day Ireland, we set a quick writing challenge to our social media followers: write a quintain which includes a synonym for the word ‘surprise’ (the theme of this year’s…
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reads her poem 'Studying the Language' in UCD Library's Special Collections.
An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of the twentieth century, The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien present
We need this worldly conversation more than ever. Translators are more interested in building bridges than burning them, with scaling walls than erecting them
Award-winning Irish novelist Donal Ryan, whose archives were recently acquired by the John J. Burns Library, has an uncommon profile for a successful author.
The award-winning Northern Irish poet Sinéad Morrissey reveals why the inimitable Sylvia Plath is not always a good influence on young poets and why sublimation of the self is sometimes better than self-expression...
Four translators reflect on their experiences of bringing the poetry of Seamus Heaney to new audiences in their native language
Dawn Behan of Woodbine Books in Kilcullen, Ireland’s Independent Bookshop of the Year, on the secret to her success
Author Kit de Waal recently voiced her concern that working class voices are increasingly absent from the pages of books and newspapers. She and others, dismayed at the lack of diversit
WFU Press intern Karly Ball writes about seeing "Blue Poles" by Jackson Pollock for the first time, and how Caitríona O'Reilly's poem of the same name helped her understand what drew her to the painting.
Edna O'Brien in conversation with Eimear McBride
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