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The Irish Times
7 days ago
Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story
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Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story
Debut novel is about a twentysomething woman returning to her small-town home after years in London
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2025/09/20/sugartown-by-caragh-maxwell-fresh-take-on-a-well-trodden-story/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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The Irish Times
14 days ago
Caragh Maxwell: âAdolescent cancer really sped up my maturityâ
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Caragh Maxwell: âAdolescent cancer really sped up my maturityâ
The Sugartown author on invincibility, mother-daughter relationships and baring her soul in return for publicity
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/09/13/caragh-maxwell-adolescent-cancer-really-sped-up-my-maturity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Irish Literary Times
6 days ago
Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story
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Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell: Fresh take on a well-trodden story
Debut novel is about a twentysomething woman returning to her small-town home after years in London
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2025/09/20/sugartown-by-caragh-maxwell-fresh-take-on-a-well-trodden-story/
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Association for Scottish Literature
about 2 months ago
âHis lifeâs work is like a dark, glittering, ethereal yet earthy river of thought, full of angels, ghosts, nocturnes, animals. These are books as brimming with spirit & light as they are with eroticism & violenceâ âSeĂĄn Hewitt on John Burnsideâs poetry & prose đđ
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Where to start with: John Burnside
SeĂĄn Hewitt, who introduces a new edition of the Scottish authorâs final memoir, guides readers through his landmark works a year on from his death
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/11/where-to-start-with-john-burnside
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Irish Literary Times
about 2 months ago
Summer fiction: I Can Do Rude by Maya Kulukundis
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Summer fiction: I Can Do Rude by Maya Kulukundis
A new short story by Maya Kulukundis
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/07/30/summer-fiction-i-can-do-rude/
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Neil Hegarty
3 months ago
Very much enjoyed my conversation with Eoin McNamee at Cairde in sunny Sligo last night. And thanks to a great audience.
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Banshee Press
5 months ago
Gustav Parker Hibbett is the winner of the John Pollard International Poetry Prize! Congratulations Parker!! đ𧥠Judge Eoin McNamee said of High Jump as Icarus Story: 'At once exalted and humble this is work of the highest order.'
@gphibbett.bsky.social
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Gustav Parker Hibbett wins John Pollard Prize
Books newsletter: a roundup of the latest news and preview of Saturdayâs pages
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/05/08/gustav-parker-hibbett-wins-john-pollard-prize/
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'The Bureau' by Eoin McNamee. Out now.
6 months ago
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The Author, SĂ©amas O'Reilly
6 months ago
This week I wrote about vigilance, and how I'm less interested in litigating whether Garron Noone is a racist, than in whether what he said was true or not. It wasn't. And people are right to be alarmed that he said it, and to wonder why he did.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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SĂ©amas O'Reilly: I think anti-racists are right to be on high alert
Iâm less concerned with why Garron Noone said what he said, than with whether itâs true or not
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41602645.html
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Irish Times. The Bureau, published March 27th.
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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The film was The Right Stuff about the first men sent into space which seemed to Lorraine to be apt to this high, remote country The Bureau, March 27th
6 months ago
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The Bureau, coming March 27th
6 months ago
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The Bureau, coming March 27th
6 months ago
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Irish Literary Times
7 months ago
Pollard poetry prize shortlist revealed
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Pollard poetry prize shortlist revealed
Books newsletter: Authorsâ Club Best First Novel Award; Irish Writers Centre events; ACIS award for Arlen House; ClĂł Iar-Chonnacht and CĂșirt turn 40; Seachtain na Gaeilge
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/02/28/pollard-poetry-prize-shortlist-revealed/
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add a skeleton here at some point
7 months ago
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The Author, SĂ©amas O'Reilly
7 months ago
I wrote this on arts funding, and the queasy feeling that it'll be Irish artists who end up paying for yet another government procurement scandal.
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SĂ©amas O'Reilly: Arts funding rows hurt artists who struggle to break even
"...it is hard to avoid the sense that the Governmentâs newfound notions of austerity will skip right past the men in suits and pass directly to the artists who rely on government funding to pursue th...
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41584321.html
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7 months ago
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Patrick Freyne
8 months ago
Rhiannon Giddens singing a song associated with the civil rights movement as part of the "insane" "woke" Irish "musical" funded by USAID (actually a US embassy event). It's great. As written about by
@hlinehan.bsky.social
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www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8R...
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Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi - I Shall Not Be Moved | Live at Other Voices Dignity (2022)
YouTube video by OtherVoicesLive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8RIHTNGV4&t=147s
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The Author, SĂ©amas O'Reilly
8 months ago
Apropros of nothing, here's me from exactly one month ago today, on how much I fucking hate the AI hype bubble and everything it represents.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/
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The Gist: AI, a talking dog for the 21st Century.
SĂ©amas O'Reilly on the year's biggest con, AI. This is a Christmas Cracker Gist.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/
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The Author, SĂ©amas O'Reilly
8 months ago
I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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SĂ©amas O'Reilly: The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs
As Zuckerberg pontificates about masculinity and traditional values, he does so in soundbites as lifeless as his former paeans to gender and racial equality
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41555305.html
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Raven Books
10 months ago
A panel discussion celebrating the work of the legendary writer Edna O'Brien with Andrew OâHagan, Danielle McLaughlin & Eoin McNamee in conversation with Rachael English
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Remembering Edna OâBrien - Ennis Book Club Festival
A panel discussion celebrating the work of the legendary writer with Andrew OâHagan, Danielle McLaughlin & Eoin McNamee in conversation with Rachael English A writer from Clare who carved out an impre...
https://ennisbookclubfestival.com/Event_slug/remembering-edna-obrien/
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Reposting in the light of todays ICC decision
10 months ago
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