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...
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...
A new upmarket restaurant and bar, recently opened at London’s exclusive Embassy Gardens on the South Bank, is inspired by the classic Disney film Darby O’Gill and the Little People (reviewed in Books Ireland, Sept./Oct. 2015). Darby’s...
The Kerry Group Novel of the Year at Listowel Writers’ Week prize went to David Park, for the exceptional Travelling in a Strange Land (Bloomsbury). Park beat off stiff competition from John Boyne (for Ladder to the...
Echoes 2019 Will Celebrate Community in Contemporary Writing in Ireland!
Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre is delighted to announce that ECHOES will return from the 4th – 6th October 2019. ECHOES proudly celebrates the life and...
In a startling OECD study, it was found that up to 6% of Irish university graduates are functionally illiterate—meaning their reading and writing skills are ‘inadequate to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills...
Irish-language
Literature Adviser appointed
Peter
Sirr has recently been engaged as the Arts Council’s Irish-language Literature
Adviser. As a Dublin native, poet, critic, prose writer and dramatist, Peter
Sirr has a wealth of artistic knowledge and will be...
As reported here before, Eason is pressing ahead with some major changes in its business model. In a move to reduce its share capital and continue to move its business online, Eason...
The
European Parliament recently voted in favour of changing the European Union’s
copyright rules. MEPs voted by 348 votes to 274 in favour of rules that will
force internet organisations such as YouTube and Google
to...
The £4m HomePlace centre
in County Derry—dedicated to the life and work of poet Seamus Heaney—has
suffered a £1m loss since it opened in 2016. The south Derry area has become a
popular place for...
