Elif Shafak
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![“You would have found [virtue signallers] upbraiding people for agonising over a blazing Notre Dame while children were being bombed in Idlib.” Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Wire “You would have found [virtue signallers] upbraiding people for agonising over a blazing Notre Dame while children were being bombed in Idlib.” Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Wire](/polopoly_fs/1.4133068.1578412509!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg)
Kathy Sheridan: Virtue signalling drowns us in hopelessness
- Opinion
- January 8, 2020, 05:00
In all the tributes to Marian Finucane, the quality that probably crystallised her was fairness. To her, no human being – not even bankers, developers(...)

The literary world was taken by surprise tonight when the Booker Prize for 2019 was awarded to two books focusing on the experiences of women in socie(...)

Will Eaves wins Wellcome Book Prize for Alan Turing-inspired novel Murmur
- Books
- May 1, 2019, 19:15
Novelist Will Eaves has won the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize for Murmur, a novel which judges described as a “future classic”, and inspired by the legacy (...)

100 books by women you have to read
- Books
- June 4, 2018, 16:14
The 2018 Hay Festival, in collaboration with The Pool, published this list of 100 books by women, including works by Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Maria(...)

Sally Rooney wins Young Writer of the Year award
- Books
- December 7, 2017, 19:45
Irish author Sally Rooney has won the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for her first novel, Conversations With Friends (Faber &am(...)

Dalkey Book Festival a delicious cocktail of politics and culture
- Books
- June 20, 2016, 01:00
The European Union is like the Eagles’ Hotel California, the world shifted on its axis with the release of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love, and everyone in(...)

Lisa McInerney wins Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction
- Books
- June 8, 2016, 19:54
Irish author Lisa McInerney has claimed the prestigious Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel. The Glorious Heresies beat the other (...)