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The In-Laws By Sinéad Moriarty Amanda, Katie and Melanie are the daughters-in-law of the domineering…
Time and Tide
A novel by Edna O’Brien One warm summer evening last year, I picked up a…
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Where They Lie By Claire Coughlan This atmospheric thriller is slightly reminiscent of John Banville’s…
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A Sampling of the Latest Irish Books. RECOMMENDED Acclaimed historian Edward T. O’Donnell goes from the Ice Age to Michael Phelan (“The Father of American Billiards”) in his breezy history […]
For the Love of Ireland
Author Susan Cahill tells what prompted her to write For the Love of Ireland: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers. I grew up in New York City in an […]
Memoir of an Irish Childhood
Author and raconteur Frank McCourt, in his autobiography, has “examined his ferocious childhood, walked around it, relived it, and with skill and care and generosity of heart, transformed it into […]
MacLaverty Returns
Colin Lacey interviews Bernard MacLaverty (photo right) the Belfast writer who penned Cal and Lamb and who has just published a book of short stories. “Some journalists in the North […]
Roddy Doyle Has The Last Laugh
Irish writer Roddy Doyle’s book, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha [Viking Press] won the prestigious Booker Prize last month, and the next day 28,000 copies were sold in England alone. Frank […]