I had a single recurrent idea for How to Build a Boat for many years––to write a story about a boy who was starting secondary school. But it took me …
Category: Irish Fiction
How is a mother’s life remembered after she’s gone? This is the question I ask in The Home Scar, as adult siblings Cassie and Christo make a trip back to …
This week is Irish Book Week, celebrating Irish authors, illustrators, publishers, and bookshops, so we thought we’d celebrate by asking some of the Irish Book Week Ambassadors a couple of …
Who was Juanita Casey? Here at Dubray we have loads of Irish Fiction. The Horse of Selene – An Irish Fictional novel by Juanita Casey is one such that we …
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 …
The strange thing about summer jobs is that we often take them at a time in our lives when we are waiting for ‘real life’ to begin. When I was …
Short stories are the subject of so much myth and mysticism that for a long time, I was afraid to try writing them. So when I was struck with a …
Be they scholars or enthusiasts, millions have bowed at the feet of Joyce, to be confounded or delighted, in equal measure. In celebration of the enduring fascination with this book, …
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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