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Book ReviewsFighting Words

Addressing modern-day atrocity through a lens of historical fiction

My novel Scorched Earth deals with Irish complicity in Britain’s brutal violence against the Boers

By Dara Kavanagh

Helm by Sarah Hall: This might make more sense as a series of short stories

Hamnet author Maggie O’Farrell to set new novel in post-Famine Ireland

Irish writers and Japan: Heaney, Longley and the perfect haiku

A Long Winter, and Ship in Full Sail by Colm Tóibín: A brain of serious range

Conversation with the Sea by Hugo Hamilton: A novel of near-perfect beauty

Sebastian Faulks: ‘I’m a very facetious guy in real life’

The Two Roberts by Damian Barr: Eloquent imagining of the lives of artists Colquhoun and MacBryde

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POETRY

The Quiet Ear - An Investigation of Missing Sound: Deafness not as deficit, but a distinctive mode of relating to the world

The Quiet Ear - An Investigation of Missing Sound: Deafness not as deficit, but a distinctive mode of relating to the world

By Adam Wyeth

Sophie White: ‘Staying playful and goofy is the secret of a happy relationship’

Sophie White: ‘Staying playful and goofy is the secret of a happy relationship’

By Martin Doyle

We Used to Dance Here by Dave Tynan: Tales of Dublin’s stagnating generation

We Used to Dance Here by Dave Tynan: Tales of Dublin’s stagnating generation

August’s Young Adult fiction: raising the stakes in sequels

August’s Young Adult fiction: raising the stakes in sequels

By Claire Hennessy

The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri: Raw, fascinating, relatable to many in modern Ireland

The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri: Raw, fascinating, relatable to many in modern Ireland

By Charleen Hurtubise

Mint & Other Stories by Adrian Kenny: Deep and somehow soothing

Mint & Other Stories by Adrian Kenny: Deep and somehow soothing

By Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

The Girls that Grew Big by Leila Mottley: Young mothers

The Girls that Grew Big by Leila Mottley: Young mothers

By Mei Chin

An excellent novel about a student in Stockholm and a cheery story set in wartime England

An excellent novel about a student in Stockholm and a cheery story set in wartime England

Intensive Care - True Stories of Healing, Heartache and Hope from Inside Irish Children’s Medicine: Where split-second decisions mean life or death

Intensive Care - True Stories of Healing, Heartache and Hope from Inside Irish Children’s Medicine: Where split-second decisions mean life or death

By Orla Tinsley

Poem of the Week: Clot

Poem of the Week: Clot

By Luke Morgan

Miriam Toews: ‘It’s unlike any of the other books that I’ve ever written’

Miriam Toews: ‘It’s unlike any of the other books that I’ve ever written’

By Niamh Donnelly

War and Power: Who Wins Wars – and Why: A convincing case that war is simply a failure of politics

War and Power: Who Wins Wars – and Why: A convincing case that war is simply a failure of politics

By Tom Clonan

Katabasis by RF Kuang: Extreme simplicity wrapped up in convoluted explication

Katabasis by RF Kuang: Extreme simplicity wrapped up in convoluted explication

By Lucy Sweeney-Byrne

Paper Heart by Cecelia Ahern: More than romance fiction

Paper Heart by Cecelia Ahern: More than romance fiction

By Paige Reynolds

Julia Roberts to narrate Leonard and Hungry Paul

Julia Roberts to narrate Leonard and Hungry Paul

By Martin Doyle

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