Open Up by Thomas Morris: Thrilling stories of disenfranchised lives
The diverse forms these stories take feel earned, surprising, not tokenistic. There’s method in the madness
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Thomas Morris: ‘I was hiding. I hid my stammer. I hid that we were poor. My characters can’t hide any more’
The Open Up author decided that, if he was going to thrive, he needed to stop pretending he was something he’s not
Sara Baume and Thomas Morris on Granta list of future stars
Running since 1983, the list spotlights 20 novelists under the age of 40 every 10 years
The Abode of Fancy by Sam Coll review: a hugely impressive linguistic feat
Fantasy and reality fuse in an ambitious and linguistically powerful Irish debut
Elvis Presley’s Irish roots proven by legal document
Singer’s ancestor fled Ireland for the US in the 18th-century after assault, paper shows
Cúirt; Fish Short Story winners; Gavin Corbett at TCD; Cork World Book Fest
Dublin Shakespeare Society; Kevin Curran reading; All-Ireland Poetry Day; Trinity talk on Derry authors; hunger strike talk at UCD
Irish Times Book Club: We Don’t Know What We’re Doing, by Thomas Morris
The bittersweet, funny and emotionally mature debut short story collection by the Welsh-born editor of Stinging Fly magazine is our recommended read for January
The Irish literary journal’s irresistible rise
With their open door policy, Irish literary journals often offer new writers their first break and more established ones a platform and the chance to think outside the box
Review: We Don’t Know What We’re Doing, by Thomas Morris
Fresh, at times brilliant, debut short story collection portrays lost souls in Wales
The writing ritual: from blank page to Booker contender
Doughnuts and cigarettes or blindfold, earmuffs and earplugs? Writers can have odd ways of getting ready for their working day – or night. Gavin Corbett, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Henrietta McKervey, Thomas Morris and Paul Murray take us into their creative worlds
Irish authors step out of James Joyce’s shadow to take on Dubliners
Adaptations by Pat McCabe, Donal Ryan, Eimear McBride, John Boyne and Paul Murray mark centenary of publication
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