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Author Mary Costello: ‘Gaza has disabled me. I think, how could I go into a room and make up stories?’
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You with the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate: Raw, fast-paced memoir full of dark humour
By Julia Kelly
Joseph O’Connor on Anthony Cronin: ‘Tension between content and style is where his wonderful energy arises’
By Joseph O’Connor
The Lock-Keeper’s Wife by John MacKenna: Menopausal protagonist brought low by a lousy husband
By Brigid O'Dea
What Dev did next: The lasting legacy of Ireland’s actions at the end of the second World War
By Michael Russell
Field Notes from an Extinction by Eoghan Walls: Compelling story of survival and apocalypse
By Neil Hegarty
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