Portaloos signposted as lavatories? Sold out lobster bisque? It can only be Borris Festival
The annual Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas brings leading writers, thinkers and entertainers together in Co Carlow
By Hosanna Boulter
Unmasking Samantha Cookes: Superb exposé of a spiralling conwoman
Novelist Niamh Campbell: ‘The Dublin of 2015 was so full of optimism. Bit by bit it got harder to stay’
Summer YA reading: Romeo and Juliet meet at a death resort while teenagers take over the world
Whistler by Ann Patchett: a lesser-told love story between step-parents and stepchildren
Patrick Freyne: The true and wonderful weirdness of Dubliners always surfaces
Summer reading hitlist: New novels, classics and nonfiction books recommended by writers
Land review: Breathtaking epic marks Maggie O’Farrell as a daring chronicler of 19th century Ireland
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POETRY
Debut novelist Jessamine O’Connor: ‘Trying fiction was really refreshing. I have been doing poetry for 20 years’
By Martin Doyle
First of December of Karen Jennings: A quietly devastating novel about slavery’s undoing
By Molara Wood
Stefan Al’s spirited account of what humans have got right and wrong when making homes
By Richard Horan
What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton: A resonant take on the distance between reality and illusion
By Colm McKenna
Rough Edges by Natasha Carthew: Irish echoes in Cornish writer’s account of Britain’s coast
By Nicholas Allen
Jemimah Wei’s The Original Daughter: Masterful in depiction of pettiness and codependency
By Maya Kulukundis
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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