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Ireland - Why it Matters to be an Island by Michael Cronin: Stirring, provocative, unashamedly cerebral
Redwood by Ben Macintyre: World-altering conversations across the toilet cubicle partition
The Strangers by Naomi Alderman: A wonderful blurring of lines between sci-fi and memoir
Seán Farrell wins John McGahern Prize for debut Irish fiction
How Seamus Deane reinvented the Irish public intellectual
Booker Prize shortlist: two former winners in running for £50,000 prize
End Times Fascism: How the ultra-rich not only benefit from crises but endeavour to trigger them
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Fearless! Vincent Browne’s Magill and Ireland in the 1980s: Skilful acknowledgment of a valuable legacy
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Happy, Thank You. More, Please: A candid story of learning to value your own happiness
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We Shall Outlast Them - Putin’s Global Campaign to Defeat the West: convincing insights on Russian statecraft
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Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food by Charlotte Wood – Cosy middle-class comforts
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