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Irish Eye on Hollywood: HBO to Release The Plot Against America in March

By Tom Deignan, Columnist
March / April 2020

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One of the more interesting political novels in recent years is being brought to television by HBO, featuring several big Hollywood names as well as an up-and-coming actor from Northern Ireland. Back in 2004, celebrated writer Philip Roth released an unusual novel called The Plot Against America. Best known for his often comic and deeply literary depictions of Jewish-American … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood: HBO to Release The Plot Against America in March

New Edition of John Kerr's "Cardigan Bay" (Review)

By William Roger Louis, CBE, Contributor
February / March 2015

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As a work-a-day archival historian, I am generally allergic to historical fiction. But occasionally I discover a novel that reaches into the minds of contemporaries in a way that historians themselves cannot match because they are usually tied to written evidence. Sometimes there is a psychological dimension to historical insight that comes across in the art of the novel, for … [Read more...] about New Edition of John Kerr's "Cardigan Bay" (Review)

Donnelly Wins Carnegie Medal

By Irish America Staff
October / November 2004

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Acclaimed author Jennifer Donnelly won the prestigious U.K. literary prize, the Carnegie Medal, for her first young adult novel A Northern Light. "I almost fell out of my chair when my publisher told me," she recently told Irish America. The delighted writer was the only American nominated for the medal and only the second American ever to win the prize. Donnelly, whose … [Read more...] about Donnelly Wins Carnegie Medal