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Big reads - books to keep cabin fever at bay

Paddy Kehoe looks at a bag-full of compelling novels and short stories to beat the cabin fever blues...

Rick O'Shea's Best Books Of 2019

It's December and I have a list of books you absolutely, definitely should read when you get the chance, or slip into the metaphorical stockings of the ones you love...

Books • 17 Dec 19

Listen: Winter Papers uncovered with RTÉ Arena

RTÉ Arena presented a special live edition from Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin to celebrate the publication of Winter Papers 5, a creative anthology of fiction, essays, poetry and photography edited by Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith.

Books • 18 Nov 19

Must see events at this year's Dublin Book Festival

The cold weather has set in and we can't think of anything better than curling up and reading a great book. The Dublin Book Festival kicks off Thursday 14th November with a packed programme of events.

Dublin Book Festival • 13 Nov 19

Poet Doireann NíGhríofa is one of the contributors to the new Miscellany50 anthology

Miscellany 50: The new book celebrating a radio institution

Miscellany50 began as an idea to celebrate the fiftieth year of RTÉ Radio 1's Sunday Miscellany. Its focus remains the same as it has for a half-century: to broadcast new short essays and poetry, with music and song interspersing the spoken contributions.

Sunday Miscellany • 17 Oct 19

Kevin Barry (left) joined John Kelly (right) on RTÉ lyric fm's Mystery Train

Listen: Author Kevin Barry takes the Mystery Train

His latest novel just made the Booker longlist - now Night Boat To Tangier author Kevin Barry boards the Mystery Train on RTÉ lyric fm for a highly entertaining chat with John Kelly...

Rté Lyric Fm • 29 Jul 19

Summer Reads: books for your beach list

Paddy Kehoe has 17 recommendations for your holiday reading this summer, come rain or shine . .

Books • 24 Jul 19

Kevin Barry: banter and menace in the port of Algeciras

Reviewed: Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry's 224-page novel is a darkly comic, endearing snapshot of two old time Irish gangsters as they await the arrival of a loved one at the port of Algeciras in Spain.

Book Review • 19 Jul 19

Graham Norton and Eimear O'Herlihy, Director of West Cork Literary Festival

West Cork Literary Festival - how we make the acclaimed book bash

West Cork Literary Festival will take place in Bantry from 12 to 19 July, hosting the cream of the literary crop for a busy week of workshops, readings and family & YA events. Festival Director Eimear O'Herlihy tells us more…

Books • 11 Jul 19

Culture 10 - your Proud guide to the week ahead

And how was your week? Here's our handy digest of Cultural musts...

Culture 10 • 27 Jun 19

Watch: Made In Dublin - Eamonn Doyle's city of dreams

This year's St. Patrick's Festival plays host to Eamonn Doyle – Irish Contemporary Photography at The Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of the acclaimed photographer.

visual arts • 13 Mar 19

Moe Dunford and Peter Coonan in Dark Lies The Island

Dark Lies the Island - adapting Kevin Barry for the screen

Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival preview: Irish Filmmaker Ian Fitzgibbon (Perrier's Bounty, Moone Boy) writes for Culture about his new film, inspired by Kevin Barry's short story collection Dark Lies the Island.

Film • 07 Feb 19

Declan Meade: founder and co-editor of The Stinging Fly

Reviewed: Stinging Fly Stories

40 stories straight from the airy and edgy spaces of contemporary Irish life - that's the matter in hand in this 380-page anthology, which gathers stories from 1998 to the present, edited by Sarah Gilmartin and Declan Meade.

Books • 24 May 18

Something For The Weekend: David Kitt's Cultural Picks

Choice Cultural Picks from the artist occasionally known as Kittser, on the eve of the release of his first album in nine years.

Music • 25 Jan 18

Pat Shortt talks to Tubridy about his new show & getting serious

Pat Shortt is feeling a little delicate. Why? Well, people tried to drown him in a hot tub, that's why. And he cracked a rib trying to escape from what could have been a warm, watery grave.

RTÉ Radio 1 • 12 Oct 17

Author Kevin Barry has written his first work for the stage, Autumn Royal.

Kevin Barry Brings a Dark Familial Drama to the Stage

Kevin Barry's wild and vivid imagination is one of the treasures of contemporary Irish fiction. Now he has written a confined familial drama for the stage, Autumn Royal, which premieres later this month in Cork.

Culture • 31 Jan 17

Seven Irish authors are in the running for the 2017 Dublin Literary Prize

Seven Irish novels in running for Dublin Literary Award

John Banville's The Blue Guitar, Kevin Barry's Beatlebone, Anne Enright 's The Green Road number among the Irish novels long-listed for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award.

International Dublin Literary Award • 22 Nov 16

Something For The Weekend: Kevin Barry's Cultural Picks

A Something For The Weekend extra, for the Bank Holiday weekend - choice cultural recommendations from the editor of Winter Papers (and greatest living Irish short story writer)

Culture • 01 Nov 16

Kevin Barry