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#SummerStars19 Lift Off this summer with The Summer Stars Reading Adventure at Dublin City Public Libraries https://www.librariesireland.ie/services/right-to-read/summer-stars On Thursday, June 20th at 10am Dublin City Libraries launched their Summer Stars...
Kit de Waal experiences an epiphany when she moves house and finds a new favourite place to write In October, I moved house for the first time in 22 years. I’ve gone down size-wise from a...
THE ULYSSES GUIDE: TOURS THROUGH JOYCE’S DUBLIN (2019 EDITION) Friday, June 14, 201918:00 - 19:00Hodges Figgis, Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland (map) New Island warmly invites you to celebrate the publication of The Ulysses...
You are warmly invited to the launch, by Dr Rachel Moss, of MARRIAGE AND THE IRISH: A MISCELLANY Salvador Ryan (ed.) 6pm, Tuesday 18 June 2019The Royal...
Tony Flynn examines two contrasting views of the Irish landscape Rural landscapes feature prominently in many works of children’s fiction, and tend to espouse the concept that embracing nature is something that is pure, healing and empowering...
From Captain America’s to Hollywood and back. Caoimhe Fox in conversation with Neil Jordan. In May 1976, the 26-year-old debut Irish author and fledgling publisher Neil Jordan wrote a piece...
Big in Japan Polly Young talks to Colin O’Sullivan Colin O’Sullivan is an Irish author on the rise, receiving critical acclaim in France in particular. He received this year’s prestigious Prix Mystère de...
Caoimhe Fox talks to Jan Carson about her acclaimed novel The Fire Starters. ‘The Smoke seems to have passed’ announced the waitress delivering coffee to our outdoor table on Drury Street. A plume...
The American detective created by Irish writer John Connolly will be twenty this year. The publication of A Book of Bones (Hodder & Stoughton) marks the seventeenth in the series but it will also be twenty years...

No sex for export

A copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by the judge of the novel’s landmark 1960 obscenity trial, with all the rude bits carefully and dutifully marked up by his wife, has been temporarily stopped from leaving the...
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