#irish-literature

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fromIndependent
1 week ago

My money: 'My car is 18 years old and my clothes are so old they're back in fashion'

Dermot Bolger is a prominent novelist, playwright, and poet from Dublin, known for his connection to the local literary scene.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

A new Irish writer is getting rave reviews but nobody knows who they are. That gives me hope | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Liadan Ni Chuinn published their first collection, Every One Still Here, under a pen name to protect their privacy.
Writing
fromIndependent
1 month ago

My Money: 'I spent a quarter of my pension lump sum on a Waldorf Astoria suite and a 1988 Lafite Rothschild'

Thomas McCarthy is a significant Irish poet shaped by his university experience and literary revival in the 1970s.
fromAnOther
8 years ago

AnOther Read: Jonathan Anderson's Most Influential Books

Irish literature is second to none, and for me that's quite a proud thing. The writers I've chosen for Document - Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats, Flann O'Brien and Bram Stoker - are titans of literature and they each changed literature in their own way.
London politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story review richly bittersweet portrait of an Irish literary great

Her raw, sexually and emotionally frank prose made her a sensation and got the Irish Catholic church hot under the cassock.
UK news
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Fun and Games by John Patrick McHugh review teenage dreams

The awkward longing, the spots, the insecurity: it's enough to cringe yourself into oblivion. For John Patrick McHugh, however, it is a rich seam to squeeze not only for humour, but for a nuanced examination of burgeoning masculinity.
Board games
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