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A visit that changed us forever
  • News
  • June 19, 2013, 00:00

JFK called his visit to Ireland in June 1963 “the happiest days of my life”. As his sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, recalls in these pages, he watched fil(...)

Hisham Matar’s superb novel Anatomy of a Disappearance failed to make it past the Impac longlist. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Great winner, shame about the shortlist

Ireland’s Kevin Barry, an artist of daring and linguistic panache, has been declared the victor. This is the third Irish Impac win to date, and at suc(...)

Trespassers: A Memoir, by Julia O’Faolain
  • Books
  • May 25, 2013, 02:00

Cork Airport, early 1970s, waiting to board a plane. Also waiting is a handsome, rather stern-looking woman, who stammers slightly (like myself(...)

Deborah Levy: ‘In my teens I used to comb the bookshelves looking for ones that might have some sex in them. I took down Edna O’Brien’s Country Girls books and devoured them.’
‘Did you notice when you said the word feminist an alarm went off?’

When Deborah Levy arrives in the foyer of a London hotel, it’s hard to miss her. Wild blonde hair, red-lipped and wearing layers against the sn(...)

Seamus Heaney who is due to read at this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature in Galway.
Poets Heaney and Longley read in Galway
  • News
  • March 13, 2013, 06:00

Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Edna O’Brien and AM Homes are among writers and poets due to read at this year’s Cúirt (...)

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