A new Wild Atlantic Way? How nine ‘literary routes’ could form a map of Irish writing – The Irish Times
What the Wild Atlantic Way has done for the west coast a new set of cultural routes could,…
I’m the only male at home and it’s not weird. It’s a fascinating honour – The Irish Times
Dinner time. Daughter Number One is first to approach the table, but does so cautiously. She’s bent at…
Wise voice of rural Ireland whose name is still spoken from mart to masterclass
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‘I’m in a lull. I’m trying to recalibrate after a long decade of elder care’ – The Irish Times
“I’m in a bit of a lull,” Anne Enright says when I ask what she’s working on. “You…
‘You cannot censor me. They would try it now with all this wokeist nonsense’ – The Irish Times
Like a gondolier on the Canale Grande, John Banville seems right at home in Venice, the setting for…
‘All the emotion I was suppressing, that I didn’t know what to do with, was grief’ – The Irish Times
“What is a novella?” Colm Tóibín asks rhetorically in an essay, In Brief, from his tremendous new collection…