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LAST UPDATE | 19 Dec 2024
HEART, BE AT Peace by Donal Ryan, the award-winning author and native to Co Tipperary, has been crowned An Post Irish Book of The Year.
The novel, set in a small rural town where locals have dealt with the brunt of the economic collapse, was the unanimous choice of the judges according to chair of the panel Maria Dickenson.
She said Ryan’s writing earned him a place on the shortlist this year and among the greatest names in Irish literature. She said the book was a “masterful achievement” and congratulated Ryan, on behalf of the judging panel.
While jobs, dramas and life is back in the town in the book, a fresh menace is creeping around the shores and lanes. Ryan’s novel tells all about how the new-found peace of the community is about to be shattered, in an unimaginable way.
The announcement was made at tonight’s ceremony, which was broadcast on RTÉ One television. Heart, Be At Peace was among six in the mix to receive the prestigious award.
Each title is competing to win the overall award after they were drawn from the category winners at the An Post Irish Book Awards earlier this month.
These books won the Eason Novel of the Year, the Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year (Senior), the Ireland AM Popular Fiction Book of the Year, the Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year, the Eason Sports Book of the Year and the Dubray Biography of the Year, respectively, at the event.
A Stranger in The Family by Jane Casey, Fia and the Last Snow Deer by Eilish Fisher, Frankie by Graham Norton, Nature Boy by Seán Ronayne and Obsessed by Johnny Sexton were all included on this year’s shortlist.
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How the other half live eh?
But seriously though, doing well for a 28 year old, keep it up!
@Mary Walshe: indeed. Bring home the bacon despite no bacon
Good job! That’s my base salary here and I surely don’t have 10k after the taxes (which are used for only god’s know what with poor healthcare, poor education, expensive childcare, poor public service overall).
@Yvon Queguiner:
Poor Education?
@Yvon Queguiner: Education is the only service we’ve had that is decent, but yea slowly it’s being torn apart by misguided Irish opinion. Also add Housing and Transport.
@thesaltyurchin: Despite unrealistic public expectation and far too much of the funding wasted in bureaucracy, Ireland’s Health service is world class.
Before anyone says anything about the salary it’s very average for the UAE. As a past resident if I can one piece of advice to the 28 year old consultant. DO NOT take out any loans or credit cards that’s how they get to keep you as you are stuck if you do
Riveting!! Zzzzzzzzz
For some odd reason Engineering consultants in Ireland get half the rate than on the continent. The average charge out rate for a civil Engineer in Scandinavia is the equivalent of 188 euros an hour.
1125 for rent in the UAE , you wouldn’t get a bed sit in Waterford for that
@David Chadwick: yea but we’re all living the dream here.
@David Chadwick: well your property here probably wasn’t built using slave labour like there.
A salary of 120k is just over 1% of workers in ireland. But 54% are college educated in Ireland. From Revenue’s “Analysis of High Income Individuals”
@Communist Party: Well, ~14% of workers in Ireland are above €100k according to recent statistics perpetuated by Newstalk. I doubt €120k is a hard ceiling for said individuals.
He’s a peasant with that salary over there when everyone and their grandma drives a Rolls Royce.
@Kieran Menon: and you’re point being?
@Fuji Hakayito: he is
@Kieran Menon: Certainly not a peasant, on that salary he has a good standard of living. Remember it’s tax free, his healthcare is paid for, and by the way the healthcare system here is world class. VAT is only 5%, the weather is incredible 8 months of the year and petrol is far cheaper than back home. I live here too so I can attest to this. So he’s definitely doing better than he would be back in Ireland, that I know for sure
Fair play.
Work hard, take risks, get rewarded.
In Ireland people who do this are vilified by the Left and taxed mercilessly to pay for the perpetually lazy.
@Paul: You really do need to get over yourself and stop blaming everybody but yourself for your bad decisions that left you paying for someone else to live in ‘your’ house. It’s not the fault of ‘the left’, it’s yours and yours alone. Be a big boy now and own it and stop stamping your feet like a child whose ice-cram just fell on the floor.
fair play to you, far away hills are not green, make sure you dont come home !!
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