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Gerard Beirne
June 20, 2023 3:13 PM
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Kyiv’s Lesya Ukrainka theatre company is visiting Dublin to stage its evocative production of the classic Irish play at the Abbey
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Gerard Beirne
June 15, 2023 3:20 PM
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Lucy Caldwell picks up the award for historical fiction for These Days at the Borders Book Festival.
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Gerard Beirne
June 8, 2023 6:52 PM
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‘If Meehan did not appeal to candidates, Mahon, Kavanagh, Rich and Donne provided relief for many’
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Gerard Beirne
June 1, 2023 5:47 AM
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The Amusements wins Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award while Company wins Pigott Poetry Prize
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Gerard Beirne
May 21, 2023 6:43 PM
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The Irish writer’s follow up to Exciting Times is amusing and sympathetic about romantic fickleness – if not as spiky as her hit debut
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Gerard Beirne
May 21, 2023 8:01 AM
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A new work by Jane Clarke
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Gerard Beirne
May 18, 2023 3:53 PM
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Lisa McInerney was first published here in The Stinging Fly in 2015 when her debut novel The Glorious Heresies was excerpted for Issue 30, Vol. 2. Eight years on, she’s now the magazine’s incoming editor, making her the sixth occupant of the role (after Aoife Kavanagh, Declan Meade, Thomas Morris, Sally Rooney, and Danny Denton). … Continue reading "An interview with Lisa McInerney"
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Gerard Beirne
May 15, 2023 8:42 AM
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Amy Gaffney’s dream of being a writer hit a speed bump when she became pregnant at 15 but had a happy ending
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Gerard Beirne
May 15, 2023 8:39 AM
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In Michael Magee’s visceral debut novel, “Close to Home,” a young man commits an assault that jeopardizes his plans for the future.
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Gerard Beirne
May 15, 2023 8:28 AM
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Winners Short-list Long-list Winners: Here are the 10 winners, as chosen by judge Billy Collins, to be published in the FISH ANTHOLOGY 2023. The Anthology will be launched as part of the West Cork Literary Festival, (The Maritime Hotel, Bantry, West Cork – Tuesday 11th July – 18.00.) All are welcome! Second […]
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Gerard Beirne
May 7, 2023 8:20 PM
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On settling into a cosy table at the Commons café in the Museum of Literature, in Dublin, the novelist Anne Griffin checks the menu’s gluten-free options. She w
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Gerard Beirne
May 6, 2023 7:37 PM
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The Irish Manuscripts Commission wishes to award a prize of €1,000 to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document. Winning entries will also be considered for publication in Analecta Hibernica, IMC’s serial publication. The original text should be an unpublished primary source (manuscript, typescript or transcript) of Irish interest, dating from any period. […]
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Gerard Beirne
May 2, 2023 6:34 PM
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The West Cork native says her late father's great aptitude for storytelling has fed into her love of theatre
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Gerard Beirne
June 20, 2023 1:34 PM
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By Elizabeth Lee THE village of Borris was brimming with literati, artists and musicians at the weekend when the annual Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas took place in the Kavanagh family…
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Gerard Beirne
June 13, 2023 1:04 PM
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Emer McLysaght: Seeing Christy Dignam on stage, I couldn’t fathom, in my ignorance, how someone could be an addict yet do what he was doing
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Gerard Beirne
June 8, 2023 6:16 PM
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Marriage is a dare and coupledom is complicated in this perceptive take on modern love
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Gerard Beirne
May 27, 2023 4:08 PM
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The Irish novelist on his wife’s response to his darkly comic new book, the ghosts that haunt his country, his love of Thomas Pynchon and distrust of Dickens
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Gerard Beirne
May 21, 2023 4:07 PM
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Like many people his age, Joseph O’Connor left Ireland as soon as he got the chance. He lived in New York for a spell and spent nine years in London before movi
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Gerard Beirne
May 20, 2023 8:17 PM
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A huge book, an immense book. Such adventure and variety, such industry, such subjugation of self. One perhaps should have guessed, but who knew? That
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Gerard Beirne
May 18, 2023 3:02 PM
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Insight - The Offing Magazine
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Gerard Beirne
May 15, 2023 8:40 AM
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"Close to Home" by Michael Magee is an immersive novel about an Irish 20-something struggling to find his place in the world.
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Gerard Beirne
May 15, 2023 8:36 AM
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Author reunites with 4th Estate’s Kishani Widyaratna, who published her nonfiction debut Constellations
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May 12, 2023 7:56 PM
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A new work by Philip Fried
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Gerard Beirne
May 7, 2023 6:57 PM
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The My Name Is Leon author’s evocative memoir of growing up in 1960s Moseley perfectly captures the dreams and reality of migration to postwar Birmingham
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Gerard Beirne
May 5, 2023 5:47 PM
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Sara Baume is commenting on a recent controversy over her identity when she stops mid-sentence. “This bird is a dunnock,” she interjects, nodding towards a brown bird flittering near us in Cork’s Fitzgerald’s Park. The tiny creature could have gone unnoticed as it hopped about in the sun. But readers of the West Cork-based author’s three novels, non-fiction book and essays will be unsurprised to learn that she is always aware of the grounding power of the natural world.
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