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Cameras rolling on Netflix's Irish film The Wonder

Production has begun in Ireland on The Wonder, Netflix's adaptation of the Emma Donoghue novel of the same name.

Florence Pugh arrives in Ireland to film The Wonder

Florence Pugh has arrived in Ireland to shoot a movie adaptation of Emma Donoghue's post-Famine psychological thriller The Wonder, which is set in the Irish Midlands in 1859.

Movies • 09 Aug 21

Emma Donoghue shortlisted for prestigious book prize

Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue has been shortlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel The Wonder.

Headlines • 27 Sep 16

Bruce: his memoir is on the way at the end of the month.

Autumn Book Picks: The Boss to Banville to Lee Child

This is indeed the season of fruitfulness, mellow and otherwise, when it comes to new books about to flower or just now budding. There's everything from Banville and Barry and the Boss, to Emma Donoghue. Paddy Kehoe and Harry Guerin pick ten.

Entertainment • 07 Sep 16

Some Irish names hoping to make it onto the Man Booker longlist

Irish novelists in contention for Man Booker Longlist

The longlist for the Man Booker Prize will be announced on Wednesday and there is a number of strong Irish contenders hoping to make it onto the list of thirteen or so novels selected by the judges.

Man Booker Prize • 27 Jul 16

Emma Donoghue: her short story, Night Vision has been adapted for the stage in a San Francisco show as Oscar fever hots up.

Donoghue, Tóibín stories dramatised in San Francisco

San Francisco-based company Word for Word have adapted the short stories, Night Vision, by Emma Donoghue and Silence by Colm Tóibín at the city's Z Below Theater.

Entertainment • 28 Feb 16

Donoghue - "My hands-on rewriting process with Lenny the director had very little jargon in it"

Emma Donoghue salutes Room director Abrahamson

With her adaptation of her bestseller Room screening at the Toronto Film Festival next month, author Emma Donoghue has paid tribute to how the film's director, Lenny Abrahamson, helped her make the transition from page to screen.

Entertainment • 21 Aug 15

Emma Donoghue - Yes we can read Room (hopefully)

Emma Donoghue happy about Obama's purchase

Irish author Emma Donoghue is happy to hear that President Obama bought her best-selling novel Room but she also says that she's "tormented by the notion that it’s still in a groaning pile of books by his bed.”

Entertainment • 03 Apr 14

Emma Donoghue's new novel, Frog Music, due April 1

Irish author Emma Donoghue’s latest novel, Frog Music, based on an unsolved murder, will be published on April 1.

Entertainment • 18 Feb 14

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