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 teacher if Jesus was a virgin. Maria remembers ‘everyone in the class holding their collective breath, waiting for lightning to strike’, and our lovely teacher, John Garvey, calmly replying that there was no mention in the Bible of Jesus ‘having a relationship’. I have zero memory of that and cannot …
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By John Banville I have a thing against Venice. In fact, I have a number of things against Venice. The avarice. The tourists. The smells. Some years ago I was …
Garrett Carr on help he received from old fishermen when writing The Boy from the Sea. The Boy from the Sea unfolds over twenty years and is about a fishing …
A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction – from the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin. Twist by Colum …
I have always been drawn to untold stories. Perhaps this instinct stems from the immigrant experience, having been brought up by Irish parents living in England, who then migrated back …
Join master storyteller Kieran Fanning as he visits every county in Ireland through 32 spine-chilling tales. Here’s a sneak peek from Dublin! THE DOLOCHER If you walk up the steps …
We are delighted to share a blog by Niall Williams on his latest publication, Time of The Child. It seems to me that all novelists are explorers of unknown worlds. …
Our bookseller Ryan, in Dubray Cork interviews author Shauna Lawless on her latest novel, The Land of the Living and the Dead! Shauna Lawless first came on the scene with …
Saying goodbye has never been easy for me. I was very much reminded of that while writing ‘Don’t Look Back in Ongar’, the 24th and FINAL novel in the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly …
I simply cannot imagine a life without ladies’ Gaelic football. I first started playing Gaelic football at eleven and when I think back on my teens and early adulthood, so …
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