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 at St Audoen’s Church in Dublin’s Cornmarket, you will arrive at one of the gates of the original Dublin City Wall. It was known as the Gate of Hell because in the 18th century it led into a notorious part of the city known as Hell. Overlooked by a large …
Category: Irish Writers
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 …
It’s a heat-wave summer in the small West of Ireland village of Ardnakelty. Cal Hooper, who took early retirement from the Chicago police force and moved there looking for peace, …
When my debut novel Breaking Point came out, I quickly wrote a second novel. But after sending the draft to my editor, I realised a different story had been percolating …
Martin Doyle tells us about his new read Dirty Linen The Troubles in My Homeplace… Growing up in rural Co Down during the Troubles, I turned to books to understand …
Fin Dwyer tell us about his book A Lethal Legacy… Murder provides a unique insight into the past. In the aftermath of homicide, history tends to slow down. The victim …
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