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Edna O’Brien: A Fanatic Heart
I thought that ours indeed was a land of shame, a land of murder, a…
Tom Deignan Interviews Stephan Talty
Tom Deignan (left) talks to Stephan Talty (right) about The American School of Spies: His…
Terror From America
This thrilling historical fiction/espionage novel marks Golway’s debut as a novelist, blending his signature expertise…
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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 […]
Book Review: Benediction at the Savoia
Benediction at the Savoia is the perfect gift for those (teeming masses) who believe that the subculture of Irish America is lathered in Catholicity, drowned in drink, laden with neuroses, […]
Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life
When Wolfe Tone examined the situation of his country in the 1790s, he made what for him was “a great discovery, though I might have found it in Swift and […]
Book Review | Damage
One of the most auspicious debuts in published fiction this year is Josephine Hart’s brisk novel, Damage. Critical plaudits and advance publicity have lifted the slim volume into various top-selling […]