Short items from past four weeks. Continue reading
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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
Waterford in Fiction
… he tells a great story and knows how to keep his readers interested. Continue reading
An Irish Family in WWII
The book’s success, however, depends significantly on the accuracy of her portrayal of the grim reality of what the individuals experience in their varying engagements in the war Continue reading
A Legacy of Myths
Book Review by James McCaughey Colm Toibin House of Names, Picador. May 2017 RRP: $29.99 h/b 261 pp ISBN: 978 1760 551421 The ancient Greeks have left us a legacy of myths. Some of them are still current – the stories of Oedipus or Antigone, for instance. Others, though less known, the story of Pygmalion say, have … Continue reading
