Mary Costello
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Mary McAleese and Fontaines D.C. among beneficiaries of artists’ tax exemption
- Personal Finance
- November 30, 2020, 13:03
Former Irish president Mary McAleese, rock band Fontaines D.C. and actor Domhnall Gleeson were among the writers, musicians and artists awarded tax ex(...)

Gruesome twosome: Bad Sex award won by John Harvey and Didier Decoin
- Books
- December 3, 2019, 13:33
In a year of two Booker prize winners and two Nobel laureates, the Bad Sex in Fiction Award has plumped for two recipients of “Britain’s most dreaded (...)

Who is the Irish author up for the 2019 Bad Sex award?
- Books
- November 28, 2019, 10:19
The Irish author Mary Costello has been shortlisted for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award. She joins Elizabeth Gilbert, the bestselling author of E(...)

Michael Noonan pays tearful tribute to sister killed in triple fatal car crash
- Irish News
- June 3, 2019, 17:44
Former Fine Gael leader and senior minister Michael Noonan has paid a tearful tribute at the funeral of his sister Mary, who was one of three wom(...)

Limerick crash victim Mary Noonan recalled as ‘great supporter’ of politician brother
- Irish News
- June 1, 2019, 01:00
Former minister for finance Michael Noonan’s sister Mary was of the three women in their 70s killed in Thursday’s car crash in west Limerick. Mary N(...)

Sight by Jessie Greengrass review – Eyes wide open
- Books
- February 24, 2018, 05:24
“She told me that without reflection, without the capacity to trace our lives backwards and pick the patterns out, we become liable to act as animals (...)

Write stuff: How authors are boosting creativity in the classroom
- Education
- January 30, 2018, 00:00
It’s Friday afternoon, an hour before school closes, but the fifth class students at St Clare’s Primary School in Harold’s Cross betray no giddiness a(...)

Shakespeare and me: Irish writers on the Bard's best bits
- Stage
- April 23, 2016
Colm Tóibín Author Favourite play: Hamlet gave me permission to put an antic disposition on whenever the notion took me, to go all melancholy any(...)

Nothing lost in translation on Man Booker International list
- Books
- April 14, 2016, 00:01
Misgivings aside about amalgamating two important literary prizes appear to have been silenced by the newly reconstituted award’s inaugural shortlist.(...)

International Dublin Literary Award shortlist in review
- Books
- April 12, 2016, 00:01
First the good news: the judging panel of the International Dublin Literary Award is to be congratulated on including in this year’s shortlist, which (...)