A breakthrough era for women’s writing, from Edna O’Brien’s risks to JK Rowling’s Harry Potter debut
In the penultimate instalment of her series on women’s writing, Paula McGrath focuses on the second half of the 1990s ...
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Author interview: A pivot to ‘cosy crime’ requires a high level of literary craftsmanship
The worlds that I’m creating with the detective novels and with 'Learwife' are different. They’re going to do very different ...
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Madeleine Keane on books: A Foxrock tribute, Keyes festival interview and the Irish in top awards
How many villages have a play written about them by a Nobel Laureate? That rare distinction falls to Foxrock. Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall features the characters and sounds of a re-imagined ...
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh to headline Paisley Book Festival
Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch, acclaimed short story writer Chris McQueer and celebrated Glasgow restaurant ...
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Trainspotting author heads up a top line-up for this year's Paisley Book Festival
Irvine Welsh, Stuart Murdoch, Chris McQueer and The Hebridean Baker are among those taking part from April 25 to 27 with The ...
Irish Examiner6d
Author interview: A novel about the women who leave — and the ones who stay
To write her book, Airey herself had to do some leaving of her own — moving from London back to her ancestral home in West ...
Word from the Smokies: Applications open for unique writing conference in Great Smokies
Applications for the annual Tremont Writers Conference will be accepted through May 15. The conference will be held Oct.
Surprising A-Lister who nearly left Father Ted shaken and stirred!
Producer Lissa Evans reveals in her new book how one James Bond legend almost swapped his dinner jacket for a cassock as she ...
Playwright Simon Stephens: ‘Our sense of self is defined by the stories we tell ourselves. My family told themselves we were Irish’
The Tony and Olivier winner feels a huge affinity with Rex Ryan’s ‘fearless’ Dublin company Glass Mask, which is premiering his play Men’s Business ...
Paul Weller ‘shocked and saddened’ after death of The Jam drummer Rick Buckler
With The Jam, the drummer released six studio albums including In The City (1977), All Mod Cons (1978) and Sound Affects ...
Opinion
Looking for Ken Kesey in Eugene, finding permission and possibility instead
Editor’s note: This essay is part of an occasional series Globe Ideas is calling Genius Loci, featuring writers’ explorations of the importance of place.
Vogue Williams sends sister storming off in rage after hysterical book prank as fans cry ‘this is beyond hilarious’
VOGUE Williams used the upcoming release of a tell-all book to play a hysterical prank on her sister – leaving the sibling ...