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Poetic beauty: Eoin McNamee aims not to provide glib answers but to make us re-evaluate our relationship with the act of storytelling. Photograph: Sarah Lee
Turning true crime into true blue fiction

‘Every writer sets their own weather,” says Eoin McNamee. If that’s the case, his is a literary landscape of storm and calamity; of real-life m(...)

Ulick O Connor talks to Mannix Flynn at the Aosdána G general assembly in the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, yesterday. Photograph: David Sleator
Abuse memorial plan divides Aosdána assembly

The annual meeting of artists’ group Aosdána was staged under a European theme yesterday but a domestic matter – the State’s p(...)