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Elaine Feeney, based in the west of Ireland, has been nominated for her novel How to Build a Boat

Most Irish authors ever on Booker Prize longlist

Four Irish authors feature on the Booker prize 2023 longlist of 13 books.

Megan Nolan: skill in writing without boundaries, divulging all of her narrator's innermost thoughts

Reviewed: Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan

Megan Nolan's debut novel provides an unsettling account of one young woman's desire to feel real, writes Béibhinn Breathnach

Books • 11 Mar 21

Black Lives Matter Protesters March in Chicago in July. Wright's book about that city, first published in 1940, is still relevant in terms of issues concerning alienation and discrimination

Book review: Native Son by Richard Wright

The deep-seated problems of racial discrimination, alienation and societal or social disorientation which informed Richard Wright's classic novel, Native Son, still abide in America for millions of black people, eighty years after its publication in 1940

Book Review • 15 Dec 20

Working with a Master: Dermot Healy remembered

Kevin McCann writes for RTÉ Culture about Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer, Dermot Healy.

Film • 03 Nov 20

Here is the Beehive is former Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan's first novel for adults (Pic: Ger Holland)

Reviewed: Here is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan

Dublin author Sarah Crossan's 266-page novel in verse tells through exquisite writing the story of Ana and Conor's three year affair, hidden away in deleted text messages, hotel rooms and secret meet-up spots.

Books • 01 Sep 20

Testosterone, Dublin 8 is Gerry Mullins' first novel

Testosterone, Dublin 8 by Gerry Mullins - an exclusive extract

We're delighted to present an extract from Testosterone, Dublin 8 the debut novel from Gerry Mullins, published by Liberties Press.

Books • 20 Apr 20

Novelist Gill Hornby: embroidering the Austen family tapestry with the portrait of an influential sister

Reviewed: Miss Austen by Gill Hornby

They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but let's face it, most of us do at some stage, and by that criteria, Miss Austen is a winner from the get go.

Books • 05 Feb 20

Born in Canada in 1967 and living in England since 1974, Rachel Cusk is perhaps the most exciting fiction writer at work in the UK at present.

Reviewed: Rachel Cusk - Transit

In Transit, Goldsmiths Prize nominee Rachel Cusk follows Outline with another tale of exquisite dysfunction and surreal ordinariness, as a mother tries to organise her life in expensive London.

Culture • 10 Oct 16

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