In January 2023, my long-term relationship ended abruptly, six months after we had bought our first home together. I was about to turn 38 and my life had fallen apart – and with it, the future I had envisioned for myself. Marriage, children. The person with whom I thought I would grow old. In an instant, it was gone. What would I do now? Well, after a year of “finding myself”, like any good millennial woman who read Eat Pray Love at …
Category: Biography & Memoir
My best friend in school and college, Maria Gillis, reminded me recently that when we were in sixth year in Mount St Anne’s, during one religion class I asked our …
By Ciarán Murphy My experience of hurling as a young boy was not too uncommon. I loved it, I loved watching it, the best players in the country were heroes to …
Peig McManus shares an extract from her memoir, I Will Be Good Mam said it was cold the day she brought me home to our tenement room on North King …
My initial reason for writing And A Bang on the Ear was to leave my children, Eileen and Joe, a legacy of sorts, to show them exactly what it’s like …
#ReadIrishWomenChallenge22 #RIWC22 It’s April so I’m back once again with the Read Irish Women Challenge – the month where we celebrate outstanding books by Irish women. Starting on April 1st, …
For over 100 years, International Women’s Day (IWD) has been a global celebration of women’s achievements held annually on March 8th. To mark the occasion this year, the Dubray Liffey …
As I contemplate the publication of my first book, Any Girl, a book I spent years writing and re-writing, I think back on the books that I’ve read and loved …
We love books. We fall in love with characters. We celebrate LGBTQ+ romance. We hope that love won’t go unrequited. We route for the underdog. We get involved in love …
After much consideration and reading, here are our bookseller's favourite reads of 2021. In here you'll find titles old and new, with enough recommendations to keep you going well into …
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