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Stanley Townsend stars in Solar Bones (Photo: Peter Searle)

Solar Bones - RTÉ Culture to stream acclaimed play online

Audiences worldwide will have the opportunity to watch Solar Bones online, via RTÉ Culture, for a limited 24-hour period on November 5th from 7.30 pm.

Theatre • 05 Nov 20

Tramp Press co-founders Lisa Coen (left) and Sarah Davis-Goff (right)

5 of the best from Tramp Press

Independent Irish publisher Tramp Press was founded in Dublin in 2014 by Lisa Coen and Sarah Davis-Goff, with the aim of finding, nurturing and bringing exceptional literary talent to print. We asked Davis-Goff to pick five of her favourite Tramp titles.

Books • 09 Apr 18

Mike McCormack's Solar Bones voted Irish Book of the Year

Mike McCormack's novel Solar Bones, a novel written in a single 223-page sentence, has been voted the Bord Gáis Energy Book of the Year for 2016.

Culture • 14 Dec 16

Mike McCormack: his metier is surreal experimentation which does not lose `its grip on the ground.'

Mike McCormack says awards "cut away some of the loneliness"

Mayo author Mike McCormack says that winning the Goldsmiths Prize for fiction and the Novel of the Year award at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards for his book Solar Bones in the space of one week "cuts away some of the loneliness."

Books • 23 Mar 17

Mike McCormack: "Tramp Press were so lucid, clear, courageous and enthusiastic about the book."

Author Mike McCormack castigates UK literary culture

Mike McCormack, who won the Novel of the Year prize at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards on Wednesday night for his groundbreaking book Solar Bones, has castigated Britain as `having one of the most conservative literary cultures in the world.'

Culture • 17 Nov 16

Rick O'Shea - no messing about when it comes to his book reviews.

Rick O'Shea's very short book reviews

Short, sharp book reviews from the host of The Poetry Programme.

Culture • 11 Oct 16