Thousand-year-old manuscript returns to Ireland for UCC exhibition
The 57 vellum-leaf Annals of Inisfallen chronicles more than 1,000 years of Irish history, including Viking raids and comets
By Olivia Kelleher
Castles, conspiracies and communism: thought-provoking back-to-school YA reads
Life of M by Rachel Cusk: A mesmeric and vampiric relationship with not-Natalie Portman
Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis: Book underscores unresolved difficulty of placement in the literary canon
The Most Normal Woman: Essays on Appearances – sharp, funny and unsettling
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Betrayal by Luke Harding: A colourful, entertaining take on Trump, Russia and Ukraine
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The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis: An eerie moodscape built through story
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Ghost Month by Simon Wroe: Odd, thoughtful inquiry into possibility of living alongside loss
By Phoebe Pascoe
The Ghost of the Mountains by Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi: What the snow leopard tells us about ourselves
By Declan O’Driscoll
Illness in our family was treated as a kind of untidiness. Something to manage privately
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