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Presented by Symphony Space in association with Irish Arts Center Stephen Colbert, Brian Cox, Hugh Dancy, Claire Danes, Kate Mulgrew, Cynthia Nixon, Fiona Shaw, Dan Stevens, and more come together for Symphony Space and Irish...
Terence Killeen on how much of our current plight is foreshadowed—and indeed diagnosed—by Joyce. ARCHIVE: First published June 2017 Books Ireland issue #373.
‘In times of crisis, historical fiction is both reassurance and escape’. Christine Dwyer Hickey has been announced as the winner of the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction...
After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present by Declan Kiberd| Harvard University Press | 9780674976566 | €36 hb | 560pp review...
This June 15-18, Nielsen Book will host a series of free 45 minute webinars for independent publishers and self-published authors. https://nielsenbook.co.uk/your-publishing-journey/ The Publisher Webinar series will...
Made up of more than 100 events for adults, families and children, the programme will feature both live and pre-recorded conversations with leading writers, poets and artists from around the world. From...
Nicola Pierce by City Headshots Dublin I was 42 when Spirit of the Titanic, my first children’s novel, was published in April 2011, changing my life for evermore. Three more novels followed, in...

Bloomsday Goes Digital

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...
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