Sarah Waters
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Irish teenager is youngest recipient in Queen Elizabeth’s birthday honours
- Irish News
- June 8, 2019, 17:36
Former frontman of The Undertones Feargal Sharkey (60) has been made an OBE in Queen Elizabeth’s birthday honours. Sharkey is one of several musician(...)

Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I was offered some very high-profile prestige movies’
- Film
- September 15, 2018, 05:00
Lenny Abrahamson clatters into the conference room of Element Pictures’ canal-side Dublin offices. The window is open on early autumnal sun. He has bi(...)

Lenny Abrahamson to direct Sally Rooney adaptation for BBC
- Film
- August 22, 2018, 09:45
Lenny Abrahamson, the Oscar-nominated Irish director of Room, is to direct an adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People for the BBC. The book,(...)

Virgin Media greenlights sponsorship of Dublin film festival
- Media & Marketing
- August 20, 2018, 14:10
Virgin Media has signed a three-year deal to sponsor the Dublin International Film Festival from next year, replacing premium car brand Audi as the ba(...)

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(...)

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock review: Historical fiction at its finest
- Books
- January 20, 2018, 06:00
“What trapped creature does not strike out?” Inspired by a “real mermaid” in the British Museum, Imogen Hermes Gowar’s debut novel tells a most intere(...)

Sugar Money review: vivid depiction of Caribbean slavery
- Books
- October 21, 2017, 06:00
Like their beloved fictional cousin the unreliable narrator, the inadequate narrator of a novel draws the reader into a tale by forcing them to take a(...)

Female voices to fore in first half of Cannes Film Festival
- Film
- May 15, 2016, 19:45
In recent years, the Cannes Film Festival, like so many cinema institutions, has been fighting accusations that it does not allow enough female voices(...)

The cobwebs are blown off the English curriculum
- Books
- September 2, 2015, 06:00
Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman has topped reading lists all over the world this summer. The story of the long-hidden second novel by the bestsellin(...)

Sarah Waters: ‘I kind of missed the lesbian stuff’
- Books
- September 4, 2014, 01:00
‘I love research,” says Sarah Waters, author of some of the most popular and groundbreaking historical novels of the last 20 years. “Sometimes I th(...)