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Sinéad Morrissey, John Banville and fellow writers salute a great man and a great poet
Adrian Mckinty
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First Irish writer to win prestigious £50,000 award since Anne Enright in 2007
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If Irish crime fiction has a signal crime it is corruption – public and private, spiritual and secular
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Adrian McKinty signs on wavy line; Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer; Peter McDonald at TCD; Allingham Festival
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Declan Burke reviews the best new crime fiction including Colette McBeth’s The Life I Left Behind
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The crime writer has turned away from Northern Ireland for his new novel, about a murder in a German nudist religious cult in the South Pacific a century ago
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