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Sebastian Barry is the author of many award-winning novels and plays including The Secret Scripture and The Steward of Christendom and is currently the Irish Laureate for Fiction. He will deliver his final lecture as Laureate – ‘The Fog of Family’ – as part of the International Literature Festival Dublin on May 30. Tickets are complimentary but must be booked online at ilfdublin.com. 
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"These are the two books I hope you will be devious enough to be able to order and buy in this tricky time." Our #LaureatePicks short video series continues…
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Irish President Michael D. Higgins announced Sebastian Barry as the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2018–2021 in a ceremony this week.
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Pair have already won awards for their listed novels, ‘Days Without End’ and ‘Solar Bones’
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Judges hail vintage year as major authors including Sebastian Barry and Rose Tremain contend alongside unfamiliar names for £25,000 honour
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Day Without End, his powerful book about an Irishman who fights in the American civil war, cross-dresses and marries a man, has just won the Costa prize. Do his family mind their stories being plundered?
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The author on divine inspiration, desk hunger and drink
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Fellow winners Brian Conaghan, Keggie Carew, Francis Spufford and Alice Oswald compete with Barry for £30,000 Costa prize
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Irish Independent Jack Reynor cast in 'The Secret Scripture' The Irish Film Television Network Twenty two year old Wicklow native Jack Reynor ('What Richard Did'), who most recently appeared in Dublin for the premiere of 'Transformers: Age of...
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The Irish novelist continues to give voice to those who have been shut out of the official telling of Ireland’s past.
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Jack McNulty is the Temporary Gentleman, a retired Irish soldier who served in the British Army during the Second World War. His story is also based on the maternal grandfather of the novelist Sebastian Barry.
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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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Dublin native Sebastian, who holds the rare accolade of having twice won the Costa prize (for "The Secre
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And Sebastian Barry delivers a superb prison drama at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival
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Mike McCormack and Sebastian Barry are two of the 13 writers who made the longlist.
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Sebastian Barry has said that bookshops have taken a “quantum leap” of importance in this “strange new world” upon winning the Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) award.
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In the week Sebastian Barry picked up his second Costa book of the year award, he joins us in the studio to read from and discuss Days Without End
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Irish writer becomes first novelist to win award twice, with story of a gay relationship set during founding of the US
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Headline Sebastian Barry wins Costa novel award for second time
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Rose Tremain, Maggie O’Farrell and Sarah Perry lead contenders for the £30,000 top prize
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The full line-up for this years Festival of Writing and Ideas in Carlow. Take a look!
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The main character of Barry’s latest novel, who is no angel, is inspired by the writer’s late grandfather, who had disapproved of his grandson’s fictionalising of family lore (Great Irish novelist Sebastian Barry models his fiction from his family's...
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A novel with pleasures similar to those of reading Jane AustenThis novel is an elegy not for a temporary gentleman but for his wife.
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