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Stephen Daly talks to Ruth Ennis about his debut YA novel, The Last Death Poet (Feature photo is by Ren McGuicken) by Ruth Ennis Stephen Daly is an author and photographer from Belfast. With a background in theatre, Stephen knows that storytelling is

Stephen Daly talks to Ruth Ennis about his debut YA novel, The Last Death Poet (Feature photo is by Ren McGuicken) by Ruth Ennis Stephen Daly is an author and photographer from Belfast. With a background in theatre, Stephen knows that storytelling is

What if Flann O’Brien was writing in Irish–even when writing in English? What if Flann O’Brien’s most celebrated works in English are, at their core, shaped by the Irish language? This intriguing question is at the heart of a lecture by Louis de Paor

We present an extract from Mithim, the debut historical novel by Carina McNally (Mercier Press) Cover design by Adrian Robb Mithim by Carina McNally is a haunting historical novel set in 17th-century Ireland. When Cromwellian forces destroy her home,

Parnell's Long Shadow—James Joyce, A Political Life James Joyce: A Political Life, by Frank Callanan (Princeton University Press) argues that politics was central to the writer's life, imagination and art by Dr. Kevin Kiely ‘No mouth has the might to

Four Night Seas author Niamh MacCabe is the latest guest on Burning Books Niamh MacCabe talks about ambiguity, animals, and what she'd like to do with her cookbooks in the latest episode of Burning Books, as she tells Ruth McKee which books she would