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Man Booker Opens Up to Irish Publishers

By Mary Gallagher, Assistant Editor
September / October 2018

September 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment

The Man Booker Prize, a prestigious literary award with a cash prize of £50,000, which each year honors the best original novel written in English and published in the U.K., has expanded its parameters to include books by Irish publishers. Until this year, Irish publishers were not allowed to enter books for this prestigious prize. The new rules were instituted following a hue … [Read more...] about Man Booker Opens Up to Irish Publishers

Barney Rosset’s
Trip of A Lifetime

By Frank Shouldice, Contributor
August / September 2003

August 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

Samuel beckett and Barney Rossett.

For Barney Rosset it was a special sort of homecoming. The inveterate publisher behind Grove Press had been invited as a guest speaker at Trinity College Dublin to mark the 50th anniversary of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. As Beckett's American publisher and close friend, it was fitting that Barney Rosset should be invited. Indeed this first trip to Ireland would become a … [Read more...] about Barney Rosset’s
Trip of A Lifetime

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