Louise O'Neill

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From arts and media to politics and law, it’s the graduates of all-girls Catholic schools who are blazing a trail for independent women. Photograph: Marvin Recinos/ AFP/ Getty
How nuns schooled today’s torch-bearers of feminism

The convent school prefect is having a moment. From arts and media to politics and law, it’s the graduates of all-girls Catholic schools who are blazi(...)

Louise O’Neill: the novelist has been canvassing for a Yes vote in the Eighth Amendment referendum. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
Róisín Meets: ‘She mutilates herself for a man. Young women can relate to that’

“It’s a story about a young woman who literally silences herself, sacrifices her family, sacrifices her home and mutilates her body in order for a man(...)

Patrick de Witt is one of the guest speakers at this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature in Galway. Photograph: Eric Luke
Cúirt; Fish Short Story winners; Gavin Corbett at TCD; Cork World Book Fest

Galway gears up for Cúirt 2016 Some great pairings at this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature include Jennifer Johnston and Belinda (...)

The big name on the programme for this year’s Cork International Short Story Festival (September 16-18) is the American author Richard Ford. Photograph: Frank Miller
Festivals, launches and awards
  • Books
  • September 11, 2014, 15:24

To celebrate Culture Night on September 19th, the Gutter Bookshop in Temple Bar will host a series of pop-up readings in conjunction with the Big Smok(...)