Those who knew Maeve Brennan described her as stylish or Irish; she went from celebrated New Yorker writer to obscurity in a nursing home. But her short stories, lovely and unbearable, live on
“There was no one to ask which way to go. No cleaners, no security, no passengers pulling luggage or pushing trolleys in hijabs or shorts or travelling shawls.”
Suffering a touch of midlife madness, the author found herself drawn to the dramatic west coast of Ireland and a way of writing she had always resisted – one with a strong connection to her past
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, John Gray, and Anne Enright are amongst the guests taking part in the inaugural International Literary Festival Dublin.
Tales of isolation in small-town Ireland, a boys’ football team, post-war Finland, the end of the world, a difficult daughter, and soured relationships vie for the €15,000 prize
AWARD-WINNING author Anne Enright said that middle age has encouraged her to draw up a bucket list – and writing for stage and the big screen are on the agenda.
In April of 2016, inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction Anne Enright delivered her annual laureate lecture in New York, an appropriate location for her subject - Dublin-born author Maeve Brennan.
The sale of a house in the west of Ireland once the children are grown is at the centre of a brilliant, radical novel that refuses to offer any neat solutions Anne Enright’s new book, the blurb tells us, is set around an enticing moment: matriarch...
For a few short months, very near the end of this book, Rosaleen Madigan becomes easy to love, and thus beguiles her children. For most of it, though, she is a shocker. Snobbish, vain and uncompromisingly self-centred, she is hard even to like.
On 29 January 2015, Anne Enright was announced as the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny T.D. To find out more about the Laureate…
Dublin novelist and broadcast journalist Anne Enright engages in a deep discussion with Georgetown University professor George O'Brien that illuminates Enrig...
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