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New Irish Writing winners to be revealed at An Post Irish Book Awards as John Boyne and Paula Meehan sign up as judges ...

Perhaps best known for her history book, "The Irish Republic," she wore many hats ... during this period and devoted her energies to writing and educating her fellow women prisoners.

The bold Irish writer Brendan Behan was ... "Borstal Boy" is a superb book, full of insights, howls, and absolutely beautiful writing. His two plays, "The Quare Fellow," about a man—the ...

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 ...

“It's easy to feel isolated when you’re working on a book. So to be among students who are excited about writing feels very energizing.” Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Paul Murray Murray is ...

Ahead of Ireland Reads Day this Saturday (22 February), Irish author Sarah Webb is encouraging parents to pick up a book and ...

NPR’s Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan and New York Times books editor Gilbert Cruz share their… Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for fiction on Sunday with what judges ...

Former Cork resident Eimear McBride also includes the city's Midsummer Festival, Werner Herzog, and Tindersticks in her ...