Stokes Books plan to reopen next month
Stokes Books will hopefully reopen on 8th June. One of Dublin’s most respected bookshop, Stokes Books, has just announced that it hopes to reopen on 8 June. Located at 19 Market Arcade, South Great George's Street. (Phone +353 1 671 3584), Stokes Books specialises in Irish history books, both...
Crime Spree: Our Little Cruelties, by Liz Nugent
Our Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent | Penguin Ireland |384pp | £12.99 pb | 9781844883950. review by Paula O'Hare Let me fast forward you into this. If you like John Banville...
Bookshop Focus—Stokes Books
Stokes Books Tony Canavan pays a visit to George’s Street Arcade In Dublin’s famous George’s St. Arcade, Stokes Books is an established institution. The bookshop has been there since 1989, but the business itself started in Clanbrassil St. in 1983. It is an unpretentious place that does not go...
Dalkey Literary Awards Shortlist Announced
This year’s Dalkey Book Festival has been replaced by the inaugural Dalkey Literary Awards, proudly launched by the Dalkey Book Festival in conjunction with Zurich Insurance. The Dalkey Book Festival was originally due to take place next June but has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rather than leave a vacuum, Dalkey Book Festival has instead...
Tom French: learning from the next generation.
My thirteen-year-old daughter ... tells me that The Sea Field is ‘a terrible title for a book’. My last book was titled The Last Straw (Gallery Press, 2018) and got its name from a public house in the village just up the coast road. A...
Ennis Bookclub festival are seeking Artistic Director for 2021
Artistic Director Vacancy The committee of the Ennis Book Club Festival are looking to recruit an Artistic Director for the 2021 Ennis Book Club Festival. The Artistic Director will be responsible for the development of a weekend programme of events (March 5-7 2021), which reflects the vision and ethos...
Dublin: One City, One Book—Tatty
Dublin: One City, One Book—a moving story of growing up in the 1960s and 1970s Tatty. by Christine Dwyer Hickey | New Island | 208pp | €11.95 pb | 9781848407619. Tatty was first published in 2004 to great acclaim....
International Literature Festival Dublin | Podcast
ILF Dublin launches new limited podcast series, Portals. LISTEN NOW Hosted by Caelainn Hogan, Portals takes listeners beyond their radius, through conversations with a half-dozen writers based across the globe, all of whom were scheduled to read at ILFDublin 2020, prior to its...
Winners of the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards 2020
The KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards took place today and all five categories were won by female artists. Hosted by Rick O'Shea, the 2020 ceremony took place online for the first time in thirty years and this year also saw the prize fund doubled with support of new title sponsors KPMG and...
In:Verse—A Beautiful Pain, by Catherine Barry
A Beautiful Pain. by Catherine Barry |Salmon Poetry | 89pp | €12 pb | 9781912561841. review by Fred Johnston Salmon are publishers of my poetry, so I must declare the interest. Dublin-born Catherine Barry is one of those writers, and...
