Irish writers on Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist
Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Young Writer of the Year Award; Eoin McNamee and fallow journal launches; AE George Russell Spring School
By Martin Doyle
Books: Vote for the best Irish fiction of the 21st century
The Next One is for You by Ali Watkins: Shining a light on Noraid
Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall – An endless blizzard of gushing
Author Jess Kidd: ‘My daughter said: Mum, do you think you might be autistic?’
Children’s fiction: Books with gnomes, aliens, monsters and climate catastrophe
The Slow Road North by Rosie Schaap: A beautiful, unsparing memoir about grief
Naoise Dolan on Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
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A Time for Truth by Sarah Corbett Lynch: Daughter of Jason Corbett makes for a compelling and understandably angry narrator
By John Walshe
Unravelling an Irish-American family mystery: my great-grandfather arrived in the US in 1922, on the run as an IRA man
By Ali Watkins
Author Paul McVeigh: ‘In Belfast, you go on a bad date and after that you bump into them every time you go out’
By Martin Doyle
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The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: how we made the list and what it says about the state of Irish fiction
By Martin Doyle
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Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X Scanlan - Interesting and new takes, and much to debate
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The Sorrow and the Loss by Martin Dillon: Women whose lives were blighted by the Troubles
By Kevin Rafter
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By John Boyne
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Entertaining and compassionate, with gorgeous touches of life
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‘She won’t read again’: I can’t conceive of my whip-smart mother not being able to fathom words on a page
By Anthea Rowan
Author Clara Kumagai: ‘I’m drawn to writing for young adults because it’s a time of turbulence and change’
By Martin Doyle
Volcanic Tongue by David Keenan: Music journalism that sizzles with deadline-generated sweat
By Peter Murphy
Twist by Colum McCann: Surprising and electric, a wired-up story of what it means to bend yourself into new shapes
By Nicholas Allen
