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Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way by Elaine Feeney - read an extract

Claire O'Connor's life has been on hold since she broke up with Tom Morton and moved from cosmopolitan London back home to the rugged West of Ireland to care for her dying father.

Books • 15 Jul

Something For The Weekend – Anna Carey's cultural picks

Anna Carey is an Irish Book Award-winning novelist, journalist, editor and scriptwriter who spent her teens and twenties playing in bands...

Something For The Weekend • 11 Jun

Book Of The Week: Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by Elaine Feeney

Elaine Feeney's new novel is a masterclass in Irish storytelling...

Book Of The Week • 09 Jun

Author Elaine Feeney returns with Let Me Go Mad In My Own way

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Hear the Culture 5 every Friday on Aedín in the Afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm, from 1pm - listen back here.

Culture 5 • 05 Jun

Watch: The Art of Reading - Elaine Feeney talks to Colm Tóibín

The Art of Reading is a monthly book club hosted by Colm Tóibín, the Laureate for Irish Fiction.

Books • 17 Jan

How To Build A Boat - author Elaine Feeney

Book Club: How To Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney

Your Book Club Bluffer's Guide...

Book Club • 30 Jan 24

Elaine Feeney, author of How to Build a Boat

The best Irish books of 2023 (so far)

We're now officially just past the halfway mark of 2023 - so it's the perfect time to pause and cast a glance over the cultural highlights of the last six months.

Books • 15 Jul 23

Kate Stanley Brennan returns in Conversations After Sex

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Hear the Culture 5 every Friday on Aedín in the Afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm

Culture 5 • 21 Apr 23

Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost In the Throat has been shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize

Trio of Irish authors on Rathbones Folio Prize shortlist

A trio of Irish authors feature on the shortlist for the prestigious Rathbones Folio Prize, known internationally as 'The Writers' Prize', announced today.

Books • 10 Feb 21

Elaine Feeney's As You Were is one of four Irish titles on the Rathbones Folio Prize longlist

Irish authors land on Rathbones Folio Prize longlist

A quartet of Irish authors feature of the longlist for the prestigious Rathbones Folio Prize, announced earlier today.

Books • 20 Jan 21

Galway 2020 launch - now comes the literary vade mecum, courtesy of The Stinging Fly

Reviewed: The Stinging Fly - The Galway 2020 Edition

To mark its reigning year as European Capital of Culture The Stinging Fly invited writers established and new to submit work inspired by the City of the Tribes. The result is this Galway-themed edition.

Books • 13 Jan 21

The Book Show returns: Virago, Elaine Feeney & Donal Ryan

The Book Show • 12 Oct 20

As You Were: Elaine Feeney talks to RTÉ Arena

Elaine Feeney's debut novel As You Were is one of the most acclaimed Irish books of the year - she talks about it to RTÉ Arena...

RTÉ Arena • 21 Sep 20

As You Were by Elaine Feeney - read an exclusive extract

Sinéad Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family...

Books • 01 Sep 20

Elaine Feeney: probably one of the most unconventional Irish books of recent times

Reviewed: As You Were by Elaine Feeney

Elaine Feeney's move from poetry into prose has been eagerly-awaited, and her debut novel As You Were is the curious and inventive piece of work that was expected, writes Aoife O'Regan.

Books • 20 Aug 20

Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times - a recommended summer read

Ten books to read this Summer

Paddy Kehoe has ten tips for summer reading to see you well-armed before you go browsing the display areas and find you are. well, just spoiled for choice. Happy reading..

Books • 23 Jun 20

Shelf Analysis: Elaine Feeney talks to Rick O'Shea

RTÉ's Book Show host Rick O'Shea is presenting a live chat show, Shelf Analysis, from his home, talking to authors about their books and life in general during the strangest of times...

Shelf Analysis • 02 Jun 20