Walking to the church in the cold and dark, we snuggled into new coats, hats and gloves and counted the lighted candles that stood in each window to welcome the Christ Child. Continue reading
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New Irish Fiction
Sebastian Barry continues his McNulty family saga while Frank Connolly recalls the Dublin bombs of 1974. Continue reading
Monica McInerney Interview
Descended from County Clare people, Monica McInerney understands intergenerational trauma. Continue reading
From The Papers
Short items from past four weeks. Continue reading
Two Novels by Jane Casey
An Post Crime Novel of the Year 2019 in first of two books by Dubliner Jane Casey Continue reading
New Irish Fiction
Two contemporary fictions reviewed, one about the ever popular Bram Stoker, and the other about the challenges facing millennials. Continue reading
From Dublin with Love
Roddy Doyle’s Charlie Savage is the best remedy for a bad mood or a feeling that life is going too fast Continue reading
From the papers
What’s in the news…. Continue reading
A Feast of Clarification
In Holy Cow!, pathos was blended with comedic bombast, prolixity with wordless groans, and irony with genuine feeling. The ending was incredibly moving, reminding us of Joyce the man and the writer. Continue reading
Emotional Intelligence and Family Crisis
Book Review by Frances Devlin-Glass David Park: Travelling in a Strange Land, Bloomsbury, London, 2018 ISBN: 9781408892787 RRP: £11.69 This is an extraordinary novella from a Northern Irish writer I was not aware of, but it makes me very curious to read more of his fiction. It’s a tale of a snow-locked father and son (with … Continue reading
