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Audi Dublin International Film Festival launches its programme for 2017
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Jim Crace wins IMPAC award for outstanding Harvest
Novel is terrific and tells story of rural community faced with the coming of enclosure
Five Irish novels on Impac longlist
Books nominated by public libraries for consideration include 142 novels
Sometimes fiction is better off sticking to the facts
The story of the true-life murder of a mother and children is let down by unconvincing melodramatic subplots
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