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 family called the Bonnars. It begins when a baby is found abandoned on the shore near their town and the Bonnars adopt him, but this leads to years of trouble. The Bonnar’s original son refuses to accept his new brother and they develop a rivalry, a rivalry that deepens as …
Category: Irish Writers
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 …
HOW THE GHOSTS OF ROME CAME TO ME Very soon into the writing of my last novel, My Father’s House, I realised that the book would be one of a …
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 had always wanted to set a novel in London but was daunted by those who have gone before me: writers born and bred there or who at least, spent …
Someone in the Attic is about Dublin born Julia and Gabe, who move back to Ireland from the US for reasons they don’t like to discuss. They’re settling into a …
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