When I was a kid, there was a henna plant outside my grandmother’s apartment. It was one of my favourite things in the world, because every once in a while, me and my cousins would run out to the henna plant to pick its leaves. We would come back to my grandmother’s apartment and crush up the henna leaf to make henna paste. Later, we would use toothpicks to draw a design onto the palms of our hands. And we …
Category: Teen & Young Adult
In October ’93 I was spending a few days in Dingle after the madness of the Children’s Book Festival and I took one of the dolphin boats out to see …
Literary journals have thrived in Ireland and have repeatedly succeeded in their goals of finding, supporting, and showcasing new writing. These journals have published works by writers who go on …
I find it absolutely thrilling to pick up a book that’s full of twists and turns even the most experienced of readers will find hard to predict. It takes true …
I’ve always appreciated the fact that while I can read a book in a couple of days, it might have taken the author years of hard work and dedication to …
Dystopia is a big theme in a lot of teen and young adult books. Apocalyptic disasters, zombie takeovers, new world orders, inverted social hierarchies; you name it, you’ll find it …
When I was in secondary school, I had an excellent English teacher who was passionate about teaching poetry. We worked from an admittedly intimidating book, four-hundred pages of works from …
Recently I have found myself returning to my comfort reads because of everything going on in the world. Be it committing to a reread or merely flipping through, I cannot …
Paper Lanterns is the new Irish literary journal that lives and breathes all things teen and young adult literature. Founded by Grace Kelley, Ruth Ennis, and Amy O’Sullivan, the journal …
If you’re anything like me, you must be very excited about all the witchy Irish YA books that 2019 has brought. But with so many tempting choices, where to begin? …
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