Lawson used Irish characters in his multicultural cast as a literary device, in the main a comic one Continue reading
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Poetry
Poems full of time telling of many stories and of many lives. Continue reading
Reading John Boyne
The book ties in to events and personalities of the time Continue reading
Alan McMonagle – A Young Writer to Watch
In any list of memorable opening sentences, Galway writer Alan McMonagle’s start to his first novel has to be up there with the best … Continue reading
Bloomsday 2017 – Getting Up James Joyce’s Nose
James Joyce, and Steampunk? Circus? Vaudeville? and the squiffy liffey, and worse? Continue reading
Anne Enright – Family and Fiction
‘This is an Irish novel that is afraid of nothing, least of all of being thought of as an Irish novel.’
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Anne Enright’s Families
Because our families contain everything and, late at night, everything makes sense. Continue reading
The Trilogy that Grew – Adrian McKinty’s Belfast Noir
Duffy is a smart and determined Catholic in a police force that is overwhelming Protestant; and he resides and survives in a Protestant estate because he has a ‘good relationship’ with the leader of the para militaries who run that estate. Continue reading
Poetry by Máire Mhac an tSaoi
I am the same age as the state
And neither turned out as you wished . . .
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My last email from John Clarke
The man spoke. I had never seen him, never heard of him before, but boy did he make me laugh. Continue reading
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