Play Book. Maurice Scully. Coracle; £18; hb; 186pp; 9780906630617
Mention the Irish avant-garde in literature and names
like Samuel Beckett and Thomas MacGreevy surface. Both poets...
Lecture: Looking at Ireland from China
Tuesday 4 February, 6.30pm.National Library of Ireland 7-8 Kildare Street, Dublin 2, D02 P638
In partnership with the Dublin Chinese New Year festival, Prof Jerusha McCormack...
The £30,000 Costa Book of the Year award went to Jack Fairweather's The Volunteer (W H Allen), the same week as the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation.
Sian Williams,...
Book Launch : ‘After Repeal’ ed. by Kath Browne & Sydney Calkin
Venue: The Gutter Bookshop, Cow’s LaneDate: Thursday 30th January 6.30pm until 8pm
The...
dlr LexIcon, StiúideoDé Sathairn, 1 Feabhra 12.30pm Lá Fhéile Bríde, déan ceiliúradh ar scéalta, ar an miotaseolaíocht agus ar ealaín na leabhar le údair agus maisitheoirí Futa Fata. Cuirfear trí leabhar nua faoi bhur...
An Tromdhámh. Feargal Ó Béarra. Leabhar Breac; 100pp; €16 hb; 9-781911-363217.
An Tromdhámh by Feargal
Ó Béarra has already won Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin 2019, the prize for the Book
of the...
Fantastic opportunity for young Irish writers
MoLI have announced the inaugural Edna O'Brien Young Writers Bursary, a 5-day immersive programme for 15 lucky students from around Ireland.
Students...
Arnie Yasinski
Arnie Yasinski at the launch for 'Proposition', 23 Jan 2020. Photograph: Bryan Brophy
Getting to my first collection of poems: Proposition
Publication of my...
Carina McNally shares the delights of An Gadaí Dubh
One of Munster’s most eclectic bookshops, An Gadaí Dubh is off the beaten track in Ballymakeera, outside Macroom and in
the...
Gaels
on film—the big screen adaptation of Catherine Cookson’s Rooney
Like Jacqueline (see Books Ireland May/June 2019),
the 1958 film Rooney is based on a Catherine Cookson novel, and like Jacqueline,
the action was switched from South...
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