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John Banville

Summer Reading

By Darina Molloy

March 28, 2022 by Leave a Comment

Snowflake By Louise Nealon There’s been a huge buzz about Louise Nealon ever since word of her debut novel was announced, with many reviewers and critics calling her the next Sally Rooney. Maybe they should all leave the Mayo writer to be the current and next Sally Rooney, however, and come up with different descriptors for almost every other Irish female writer under 30. … [Read more...] about Summer Reading

Recently Published Books
of Irish Interest

By Darina Molloy

December/ January 2021

February 17, 2021 by 3 Comments

Big Girl Small Town by Michelle Gallen Writer Sinead Moriarty has probably gifted Big Girl Small Town with the best synopsis ever – “Milkman meets Derry Girls. A cracking read’ – which is proudly emblazoned on the Irish version of the cover. Majella is one of those outliers – ignored by most people, and reasonably content to potter on with her life. She lives with her … [Read more...] about Recently Published Books
of Irish Interest

Crime Pays for John Banville

October 15, 2020 by Leave a Comment

By Tom Deignan Will Real John Banville Please Stand Up! Wexford native and Booker-prize-winner John Banville has spent his celebrated literary career exploring the slippery nature of identity and reality. Characters in Banville’s dazzling, challenging novels, such as The Untouchable or Athena, slip in and out of personas, and conceal so many secrets from friends and family … [Read more...] about Crime Pays for John Banville

Glenn Close’s Irish Odyssey:
Albert Nobbs

By Patricia Danaher, Contributor
February / March 2012

January 26, 2012 by 3 Comments

Glenn Close tells Patricia Danaher about her Irish dream project Albert Nobbs - the film that just earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. When Glenn Close puts her mind to something, the fates seem to have a way of conspiring to make it a reality, even if in some cases it takes decades. Take her latest movie, Albert Nobbs, as an example. Based  on a novella by late … [Read more...] about Glenn Close’s Irish Odyssey:
Albert Nobbs

Banville on Black

By Sheila Langan, Deputy Editor
October / November 2011

October 1, 2011 by 1 Comment

"Sometimes, in the middle of the afternoon if I’m feeling a little bit sleepy, Black will sort of lean in over Banville’s shoulder and start writing. Or Banville will lean over Black’s shoulder and say ‘Oh that’s an interesting sentence, let’s play with that.’ I can see sometimes, revising the work, the points at which one crept in or the two sides seeped into each other.” If … [Read more...] about Banville on Black

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June 24, 1875

Forrest Reid, Irish novelist and literary critic, was born on this day in Belfast in 1875. To this day, Reid is regarded amongst the likes of J.M. Barrie and Hugh Walpole as a pre-war British boyhood novelist. His most famous work was Young Tom, for which he won a James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1944.

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