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# Literature

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Irish language works get their own award category for first time at Irish Book Awards
27 Jun 2018
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Mike McCormack's 'brave, challenging' book Solar Bones wins €100k Dublin Literary Award
13 Jun 2018
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2018 Nobel Literature Prize postponed after #MeToo controversy
4 May 2018
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'It is an incentive, at 88, to keep going': Irish author Edna O'Brien made a DBE
10 Apr 2018
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This man will be the face of Irish fiction for the next three years
8 Feb 2018
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Want to tell everyone a hidden story about Ireland? Here's your chance
1 Feb 2018
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Old Georgian House to be transformed into new home for Irish poetry... and it has some major backers
14 Jan 2018
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Three Irish authors shortlisted for major UK book award
22 Nov 2017
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British writer of The Remains of the Day wins Nobel Prize for Literature
5 Oct 2017
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A new JRR Tolkien book has been published (and there's a huge Irish wolfhound on the cover*)
1 Jun 2017
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Column: 'Irish women were writing too, yet we don’t hear half enough about them'
Eleanor Fitzsimons
21 May 2017
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An award-winning story before bedtime: I Could Have Been a Dancer
2 Apr 2017
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Bob Dylan FINALLY accepts Nobel Prize for Literature
2 Apr 2017
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Looking for good books to buy as Christmas presents? Here's some help
10 Dec 2016
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Bob Dylan finally breaks silence on Nobel Prize award
29 Oct 2016
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The making of Dracula: How Bram Stoker's 'in-betweener' status inspired horror
Jarlath Killeen
26 Oct 2016
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Can You Fill In The Words In These Literary Sex Scenes?
24 Sep 2015
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Here's why Ireland's women writers aren't being ignored anymore
20 Sep 2015
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Harper Lee's long-lost novel has arrived - here's what we think of the first chapter
10 Jul 2015
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Jim Crace interview: "I'm an un-tortured writer and that isn’t very sexy"
21 Jun 2015
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The 'Woodstock of the mind' is visiting Ireland next week
21 Jun 2015
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This book is the best you'll find in a library right now worldwide
17 Jun 2015
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Sinn Féin defends leaflet amid accusations of 'blatant sectarianism'
2 May 2015
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Paris audience in "group hallucination" at the work of one of Ireland's literary giants
14 Mar 2015
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My favourite female characters are warm, wilful and – above all – flawed
Erika McGann
5 Mar 2015
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Column: 6 highly influential people share their favourite books
Business Insider
26 Dec 2014
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Five Irish authors are up for the world's most valuable book prize
24 Nov 2014
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Arts Council announce nominees for new Irish fiction laureate award
20 Oct 2014
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A book about a prisoner-of-war camp won the Booker Prize last night
15 Oct 2014
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French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for Literature
9 Oct 2014
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Seamus Heaney honoured with 'Poetry House' in hometown of Bellaghy
31 Aug 2014
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The Irish author of Uncle Silas was honoured with a Google Doodle today
28 Aug 2014
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Two Irish novelists have been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
23 Jul 2014
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Here are the 'pro-gay' kids books Singapore is clamping down on
18 Jul 2014
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Short Story: Whalesong
Barbara Leahy
6 Jul 2014
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Short Story: The Chamber Pot
Richard Ball
5 Jul 2014
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Short Story: The Oyster Catchers
Beth Tyrrell
1 Jul 2014
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The 10 best books of the year (so far), according to Amazon
29 Jun 2014
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11 people who haven't read Ulysses either
16 Jun 2014
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Bloomsday breakfasts, walks, talks and music celebrate Joyce's iconic work
15 Jun 2014
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