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No, Peig Sayers’s autobiography did not put you off Irish. How could it, when it’s such a vibrant account of a passionate life? 
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Contemporary fiction can sometimes feel like a playground. Youngsters tend to dominate the public perception of writers and readers: think Sally Rooney, TikTok
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A peer-reviewed academic journal dating back to the early 1960s, the JJQ offers critical and theoretical work focusing on the life, writing, reception, and influence of James Joyce.
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Poet Niamh Twomey Announced as Winner of The Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition 2023 –
Co Clare poet Niamh Twomey was announced the winner, with her poem ‘Airmead in the Glen’, of the Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition 2023 by competition judge Eleanor…
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The RTÉ Short Story Competition 2023 in honour of Francis MacManus is back and is now open for entries.
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Granard Booktown Festival is the first step to putting the Co Longford town on the map
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Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane; Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater; The Wintering Place by Kevin McCarthy; Cast a Cold Eye by Robbie Morrison; and The Lock-Up by John Banville
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Winners Short-list Long-list From all of us at Fish, thank you for entering your flashes. So many gems deserving of a readership have left their imprint on the Fish editors and judge, Kit de Waal. It was an honour to read them all. Congratulations to the writers whose Flash Stories were short or long-listed, […]
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The writer’s second novel, How to Build a Boat, is set in the west of Ireland and tells the story of Jamie who is on the cusp of adolescence
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When I began writing, relatively late in life, I started with the place I am from, a small farm just outside Tuam, Co Galway. The grim story of the mass grave on the site of the former mother and baby home was brought to light by local historian Catherine Corless around the same time. I avoided writing about it at first, even though it affected me deeply, believing that it was not my story to tell. But as themes began to emerge in my poems, I realised that the story was inextricably linked to where I am from, and to who I am. It became something I couldn’t ignore.
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A preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest literary news
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Derry writer ‘grateful and slightly dazed’ on learning of the life-changing €160,000 award
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For over 200 years the Big House novel has remained a thriving literary tradition led by an array of Irish women writers, north and south
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Canongate has scooped Kevin Barry’s new novel, The Heart in Winter, his first since the Booker-longlisted Night Boat to Tangier (Canongate).
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TRANSLATED FROM THE TURKISH BY NEIL P. DOHERTY
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Superb essays about an inventive, daring and deeply humane writer
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Joseph O’Connor, Sara Baume and others select their favourite read of all time, and a recent book that's also impressed them
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The film is produced by and stars Cillian Murphy along with Ciarán Hinds and Emily Watson
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The RTÉ Short Story Competition 2023 in honour of Francis MacManus is back and is now open for entries.
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“I think Kavanagh is magnificent. He’s written, maybe, a dozen masterpieces — which is not bad for anybody.”
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As You Get Older
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