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Book Review – Dinner Party: A Tragedy by Sarah Gilmartin
All we have is ourselves. All we have is family. Dinner Party: A Tragedy, the debut novel by journalist, author and playwright Sarah Gilmartin, is a novel which is honest with us, and warns us from the beginning that we are going to be taken on a bumpy ride. It tells the story of a […]
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Interview – Write by the Sea Literary Festival 2021
The autumn festival season is kicking off all around Ireland, and if there is one festival that writers – both established and aspiring – don’t want to miss, it’s Write by the Sea. Based in the picturesque and intimate seaside village of Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford, Write by the Sea is a festival which delves […]
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Interview – Jack Smyth – Book Cover Designer
These days, you don’t even have to take a book off the shelves to enjoy the experience of being in a bookshop. Book covers have become artworks in their own rights, and browsing a well laid out bookshop isn’t unlike being at an exhibition of sorts. The show in question contains everything from bold, colourful […]
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Interview – Ellen Hutchins Festival 2021
Aside from being one of the most beautiful parts of Ireland, Bantry Bay (West Cork) and surrounding area is famous for something else that, more than likely, not enough people know about – it was home to Ellen Hutchins (1785 – 1815), Ireland’s first female botanist, and a significant contributor to her particular field of […]
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Book Review – A Quiet Tide by Marianne Lee
The fisherman sidled up to her on the quay. ‘You’re Miss Hutchins, the plant lady from Ballylickey.’ A Quiet Tide, the debut novel by Marianne Lee, takes us back in time to the early 1800s, immersing us in an intimate and compelling fictionalised account of the life of Ellen Hutchins, Ireland’s first female botanist. After […]
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Interview – Burning Books Podcast by Books Ireland
Books Ireland is our national hub for all things literature, covering the literary scene from pretty much every angle possible: news, interviews, features, reviews, Irish book charts, events listings, First Flash (a roundup of books published in the current month) and, most recently, a series entitled Backlist Beauties, giving books a well deserved return to […]
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Interview – Tolka Journal
A journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction. There is a new literary journal on the scene in Ireland and, since the launch of its inaugural issue at the end of May, the internet has been buzzing. Tolka is a new biannual literary journal, seeking to give a platform without parameters to non-fiction writing. The founding editors […]
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Book Review – Pure Gold by John Patrick McHugh
That summer we lit fires. Terry and I. (Bonfire) Although already a seasoned writer of short stories featured in literary journals and magazines, Pure Gold is John Patrick McHugh’s first published collection. The stories are all set on an imagined island off the west coast of Ireland. Referred to as ‘the Island’ throughout, this already […]
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Interview – Here & Now, International Literature Festival Dublin 2021
One of Ireland’s most important literary events is now well under way, and this year’s programme clearly has people very excited. The festival got off to a cracking start, with Valeria Luiselli confirmed as this year’s recipient of the prestigious Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction […]
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Interview – Vibes & Scribes, Raring to Reopen
If there is a business that knows how to keep our heads, hearts and hands happy, it’s the very vibrant Vibes & Scribes in Cork City. The business started as a small bookshop, founded by Joan Lucey, then diversified into arts and crafts, before expanding further into fabric, wool, yarn, haberdashery and upholstery supplies. This […]
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