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Poll: When was the last time you read a novel?

THE SHORTLIST FOR the 2023 Dublin Literary Award was announced this week, featuring six books nominated by libraries around the world.

The shortlisted authors are American, Mexican, German, Croatian and Canadian-Vietnamese, while four of the novels have been translated from their original language.

With a top prize of €100,000, the Dublin Literary Award is the largest award for a single novel published in English.

No Irish authors have made the shortlist this year, however the 2020 award went to Anna Burns for her book Milkman.

The competition’s shortlisted novels are available to borrow from public libraries around Ireland, and on digital loan as eBooks and eAudiobooks on BorrowBox.

So, today we want to know…… When was the last time you read a novel?

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Sinn Féin's Eoin Ó Broin tabled the bill, which uses the same wording as existing Government legislation.

Thursday 30 March

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# Dail vote

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# biden visit

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# Abortion

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# High Court

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# MMR

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# Autism
Call for families to take part in first national study on autistic children's school experiences
The project aims to improve educational policy and practices for autistic children across Ireland.
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# aftermath
Moral panic 'fizzled out' of Dungarvan after gardaí arrested woman over alleged false statement
Disinformation experts say the town is a textbook example of how the far-right attempts to exploit incidents.
Rumours circulated in recent weeks claiming that attacks were carried out in the town centre by migrant men.
In an unusual statement, gardaí said they were not aware of "any alleged spate of attacks by foreign nationals” and arrested a woman alleging she had "knowingly made a false report" about an incident.
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# Awards Season
France's Antoine Dupont voted Player of the Six Nations ahead of Ireland trio
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# eviction ban
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# the vatican
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# Dail vote
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# High Court
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# MMR
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# dail ructions
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# biden visit
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# Security
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# Abortion
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