This year the events to commemorate James Joyce’s Ulysses on 16 June are going digital. Highlights of this year’s festival include ‘My Little Ireland’ by Ciclopatas Theater, Brazil; All Dressed Up and...
The Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition – now in its eighth year – attracts hundreds of entries from across the island of Ireland annually. Rory Duffy, who won first prize in 2019 for “A...
In March, the Internet Archive, a non-profit group, announced that it was creating a "National Emergency Library," temporarily suspending waiting lists to borrow e-books during the pandemic. At...
A Quiet Tide
by Marianne Lee | New Island | 394pp | €14.95 pb | 9781848407541 |May 2020
review by Patricia O'Reilly
A lost legend of Irish literature—Maurice Walsh and ephemeral fame
Tony Canavan
Maurice Walsh (1879–1964) is now best known for his...
Readers welcome but no browsing – Bookshops reopen to the public
From today (08 June) bookshops in the Republic of Ireland can open to the public again. The lockdown...
On Midnight Beach
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick | Faber & Faber | 320pp | £7.99 pb |9780571355594
review by Síne Quinn
Paula O’Hare casts her eye over recent crime fiction
Now That You’ve Gone
by Fiona Gartland | Poolbeg Crimson |400pp | €9.99 pb | 9781781997956.
Gina O'Donnell the Bookshop Manager of Hodges Figgis has died after a brief illness.
Gina started in Hodges Figgis in 1980 initially as a cashier quickly rising to the...
Poetry Ireland announce the appointment of Niamh O’Donnell as the new Director of Poetry Ireland.
Niamh will step down from her current position as Artistic Director of Mermaid County...
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