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News: New Writing Awards

By Sharon Ní Chonchúir, Contributor
March / April 2020

March 1, 2020 by 1 Comment

Dublin’s Dalkey Book Festival is celebrating its second decade by launching two major new annual Irish literary awards worth a total of €30,000. These awards will recognize writers in two categories. One will offer €20,000 for the Novel of the Year, making it the biggest prize that is exclusively available to Irish writers. The other will present €10,000 to the Emerging … [Read more...] about News: New Writing Awards

From The Paper Press to the Small Screen

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
December / January 2020

December 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

The ascension of Sally Rooney from promising young Irish writer to A-list entertainment mogul continues at a breathtaking pace.  The latest proof? A fawning report in Vanity Fair, from the set of the much-buzzed-about TV series based on her book Normal People. The swanky magazine describes Rooney’s novel as a “complex portrait of modern love, touching on class and … [Read more...] about From The Paper Press to the Small Screen

What Are You Like? Tom O’Neill

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
October / November 2019

October 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

On the best advice he ever received, talking on plane rides, and being 20 years late on his book deadline! It took 20 years of intensive research, hundreds of interviews, missed deadlines, and publishers demanding their money back, but Tom O’Neill’s CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties is worth the wait. It’s a chilling page-turner … [Read more...] about What Are You Like? Tom O’Neill

Mother, Life, Landscape, and the Connection

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
March 8, 2018

March 8, 2018 by Leave a Comment

In February of this year, globally-renowned Irish author Edna O'Brien was named as the winner of the PEN/Nabokov award for achievement in international literature. Today, on International Women's Day, we celebrate this seminally feminist voice in modern Irish culture, and look back on Patricia Harty's 2007 interview with O'Brien, where they talked writing, family, and … [Read more...] about Mother, Life, Landscape, and the Connection

Making Ready for
Bloomsday Centenary

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2003

August 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

James Joyce in the company of Ezra Pound, John Quinn and Ford Madox Ford.

June 16, 2004 is the 100th Anniversary of Leopold Bloom's Fateful Walk. ℘℘℘ As we go to press and the world is celebrating Bloomsday, plans are already afoot for next year's "Bloomsday Centenary." Ireland's Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism John O'Donoghue has set up the Bloomsday Centenary Coordinating Committee, to plan the event which will hopefully lure James Joyce fans … [Read more...] about Making Ready for
Bloomsday Centenary

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Today in History

July 7, 1816

On this day in 1816, Dublin born playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan died in London. Sheridan was a member of the British House of Commons and is best remembered for his plays “A Trip to Scarborough,” “The Rivals,” and “The School for Scandal.” He was very well respected by his contemporaries and is buried at the Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey.

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