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Happy birthday, Charlie Parker!
The American detective created by Irish writer John Connolly will be twenty this year. The publication of A Book of Bones (Hodder...
No sex for export
A copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by the judge of the novel’s landmark 1960 obscenity trial, with all the rude bits...
Darby O’Gill inspired restaurant
A new upmarket restaurant and bar, recently opened at London’s exclusive Embassy Gardens on the South Bank, is inspired by the classic...
Winners at Listowel Writers’ Week
The Kerry Group Novel of the Year at Listowel Writers’ Week prize went to David Park, for the exceptional Travelling in a...
ECHOES to return to Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre this October
Echoes 2019 Will Celebrate Community in Contemporary Writing in Ireland!
Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre is delighted to announce...
Kevin Barry (45) This Literary Life ‘Most days my writing doesn’t...
Interview by Mary McCarthy
The best research is done without realising it. I was a freelance journalist for 15...
Concerns over student illiteracy
In a startling OECD study, it was found that up to 6% of Irish university graduates are functionally illiterate—meaning their reading and...
Irish-language Literature Adviser appointed
Irish-language
Literature Adviser appointed
Peter
Sirr has recently been engaged as the Arts Council’s Irish-language Literature
Adviser. As a Dublin native, poet,...
All change at Eason
As reported here before, Eason is pressing ahead with some major changes in its business model. In...
New EU copyright rules for publishers
The
European Parliament recently voted in favour of changing the European Union’s
copyright rules. MEPs voted by 348 votes...
