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A Thread of Violence - author Mark O'Connell

Book Club: A Thread of Violence by Mark O'Connell

Your Book Club Bluffer's Guide...

Book Club • 30 Jan 24

A Thread of Violence by Mark O'Connell - read an extract

Read an extract from the award-winning book.

Books • 28 Nov 23

Convicted killer Malcolm Macarthur is the subject of two new books

David McCullagh on the murders that shocked Ireland, 40 years on

David McCullagh reviews a pair of new books exploring a notorious chapter in Irish history.

Books • 22 Jul 23

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

Show Your Work - The Dublin Review celebrated on RTÉ Arena

Books • 21 Sep 22

Something for the Weekend – Ailbhe Reddy's Cultural Picks

Ailbhe Reddy is one of Ireland's most acclaimed young singer-songwriters - she has just released her debut album, Personal History.

Something For The Weekend • 08 Oct 20

Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Photo: Bríd O'Donovan

Something For The Weekend - Doireann Ní Ghríofa's Cultural Picks

Choice cultural picks from the author of A Ghost in the Throat...

Something For The Weekend • 27 Aug 20

Panti Bliss on The Big Pause - Pantisocracy returns

What happens when the things you've been planning, the projects you have been dreaming of, get postponed, cancelled or become impossible to do? In the first episode of the new season of Pantisocracy, Panti Bliss digs deeper...

pantisocracy • 09 Jul 20

Listen: The Book Show on how to survive the apocalypse

On this week's Book Show on RTÉ Radio 1, Rick O'Shea hears about some of the 'perverse pilgrimages' embarked upon by Mark O'Connell in his search for how best to survive the apocalypse...

The Book Show • 08 May 20

Mark O'Connell, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2019, at Trinity College Dublin

Mark O'Connell wins Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

Author Mark O'Connell has been announced as the winner of this year's Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, for his book To Be a Machine - the first time the €10,000 award has been made for a work of nonfiction.

Books • 24 Sep 19

Mark O'Connell