# writing - Tuesday 30 October, 2018
Crime writer Sam Blake explains that writing and reading crime can help you get away from the news when it’s grim. And unlike in real life, there’ll always be a satisfying ending.
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# writing - Tuesday 7 August, 2018
The former Sinn Féin president has already published numerous memoirs and historical books.
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# writing - Friday 29 December, 2017
# writing - Sunday 5 November, 2017
We talked to them about how they did it.
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# writing - Saturday 4 November, 2017
The author of I Found My Tribe, who is married to the late Simon Fitzmaurice, is nominated for an Irish Book Award.
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# writing - Monday 30 October, 2017
Clare Daly is about to self-publish her first novel, an Irish Vampire story, Our Destiny is Blood.
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# writing - Thursday 5 October, 2017
The prize is worth 9 million kronor (€1 million).
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# writing - Sunday 1 October, 2017
Author Paul Howard turned a Dublin stereotype into a phenomenon.
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# writing - Saturday 19 August, 2017
Poet Hazel Hogan’s Grangegorman has been added to the recommended list.
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# writing - Sunday 30 July, 2017
We talked to Stuart Neville, whose new book Here and Gone has been optioned for a movie.
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# writing - Sunday 2 April, 2017
Read a story which won the First Fiction award at this year’s Hennessy Literary Awards.
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# writing - Sunday 5 March, 2017
Author Jane Mitchell tells us why she wrote about the Syrian war in her latest book – and why she went to volunteer in Calais.
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# writing - Tuesday 31 January, 2017
The Costa Book of the Year was formerly known as the Whitbread prize.
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# writing - Sunday 25 December, 2016
# writing - Sunday 11 December, 2016
Plus, Harry Arter opens up about how his daughter’s memory has motivated him to help others.
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# writing - Friday 18 November, 2016
Last year’s winner was former Smiths frontman Morrissey.
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# writing - Sunday 2 October, 2016
We spoke to three of the country’s best authors to find out why.
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# writing - Tuesday 27 September, 2016
NOBODY say “chick lit”.
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# writing - Sunday 3 July, 2016
Elie Wiesel wrote tens of books and was a professor and Nobel Prize winner.
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# writing - Monday 28 March, 2016
We spoke to newly-published author Eilís Barrett, from Galway.
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# writing - Sunday 6 March, 2016
These articles will get you thinking.
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# writing - Friday 29 January, 2016
# writing - Wednesday 2 December, 2015
“The couple rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation.”
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# writing - Sunday 11 October, 2015
He’s not a household name here – but he is in Japan.
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# writing - Sunday 20 September, 2015
We speak to the editor of a new anthology, broadcaster and journalist Sinéad Gleeson.
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The best-selling British author had breast cancer.
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# writing - Sunday 14 June, 2015
# writing - Saturday 4 April, 2015
A new project aims at helping them – all thanks to author Patricia Scanlan.
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# writing - Tuesday 31 March, 2015
The pen uses vibrations to stimulate muscles in the hand, making it easier to move the pen and write smoothly.
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# writing - Thursday 26 February, 2015
Could you share space with a stranger?
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# writing - Thursday 29 January, 2015
It was a unanimous choice.
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# writing - Thursday 1 January, 2015
Advice from an expert.
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# writing - Thursday 25 December, 2014
Also featuring Cork GAA player Jamie Wall, the stray dogs of Sochi and the perils of the Irish national football team.
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# writing - Tuesday 25 November, 2014
The Connacht Tribune Group describe it as the “end of an era”.
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# writing - Wednesday 12 November, 2014
# writing - Wednesday 13 August, 2014
Culturally, these Irish writers belong to the world – but all of them saw life and used language from an Irish perspective.
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# writing - Sunday 6 July, 2014
The third prize winner of the RTÉ Radio Francis MacManus Short Story Competition 2014.
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There are also articles on a Brazilian family’s misfortune and Messi’s statistical brilliance.
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# writing - Saturday 5 July, 2014
The second prize winner of the RTÉ Radio Francis MacManus Short Story Competition 2014.
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# writing - Thursday 3 July, 2014
A new initiative will see local authorities form action plans to tackle literacy levels in local communities.
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