Here is a fantastic piece by Sinéad Gleeson for her fiction debut, Hagstone. Taking readers to the darker side of human nature and the mysteries of faith and the natural world. I’ve always been a little obsessed by remote places. Being from a large island like Ireland means we have a collective fascination with isolated communities. The central character in Hagstone is Nell, an artist who lives very much on her own terms, and her practice is rooted in the …
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Sometime in the late 1990s, I read Herman Hesse’s 1927 novel Steppenwolf and was awed by a passage that prophesied the great destruction coming to Europe. Harry Haller, that book’s …
Nearly fifteen years ago, a man was found dead on a beach in the north-west of Ireland. Nobody knew who he was or where he had come from. The man …
Service is a story about the abuse of power, set in a buzzy, high-end Dublin restaurant at the height of the boom. It’s told from three perspectives – waitress Hannah …
We all make lists every day. They’re the most mundane form of writing – or are they? Lists can be much stranger than they appear. Shopping lists, to-do lists, wish lists …
My fiction debut, The Amusements, is a novel of interconnected stories set in the seaside town of Tramore – a place I know well because my family are from Waterford. With the …
About ten years ago I was touring my stand-up comedy show in England. Doing my due diligenceon the town I was performing in one night, I stumbled upon a chilling, …
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