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# Writing

This year
2023
# Writing
'That is an urban myth': John Boyne claims he never had a spat with Auschwitz memorial museum
Boyne had a wide-ranging interview with RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor.
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Mar 11th 2023, 1:19 PM
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# get reading
Irish non-fiction to look forward to in 2022
From history to photography.
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Dec 29th 2021, 10:00 AM
# writing our history
Declan O'Rourke: 'I think we all have these ghosts and figures lurking in the past'
The Irish songwriter has written a book about the Famine, something that he never expected to do, he tells us.
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Nov 10th 2021, 8:00 PM
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Opinion: 'In my everyday reality, self-love doesn’t protect me from racial harassment, sexism and ableism'
An Post Irish Book Awards nominee Rosaleen McDonagh has written a searing book of essays – here, she writes about their genesis.
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Nov 4th 2021, 7:00 AM
# Short stories
The winner of the RTÉ Short Story Competition 2021 has been announced
The Third Day by Kevin Donnellan has won this year’s competition.
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Sep 27th 2021, 7:51 PM
# young writers
The Irish Read: Four young writers share their poetry
Enjoy new work by young Irish authors, excerpted from the Paper Lanterns journal, this Sunday morning.
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Jul 11th 2021, 10:00 AM
Voices
Extract: Roisin Kiberd on how Facebook helped change the internet - and our lives
Writer Roisin Kiberd looks at the world of the internet – and the effect it has on our lives – in her new essay collection, The Disconnect. Here, she takes us through her early days online.
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Mar 10th 2021, 7:00 PM
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'It reinforced my sense of belonging': One Dublin One Book author Rónán Hession on his life in reading
Author Rónán Hession’s debut novel Leonard and Hungry Paul is this year’s One Dublin One Book selection – here, he writes about the joy reading has brought to his life.
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Mar 9th 2021, 7:30 PM
# comfort reads
The books that brought writers like Roddy Doyle and Tana French comfort in 2020
Irish and Ireland-based writers, including Roddy Doyle, Sinéad Gleeson and Tana French, tell us about the books that soothed them this year.
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Dec 30th 2020, 6:30 PM
# new irish writing
'It's so astounding that a woman can disappear to that extent': Rediscovering the author of Ireland's greatest love poem
The Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa explores the life of the writer Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill in her lauded new book.
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Sep 20th 2020, 8:15 AM
Voices
Opinion: Want to use this time to write a short story? Here are some top tips
We have some tips from author Vincent Woods to inspire you.
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Aug 8th 2020, 7:00 PM
# strange hotel
Eimear McBride: 'The amount of 'she's not a genius, she's a very naughty girl' I've got is just ridiculous'
The critically-acclaimed Irish author speaks to us about her new novel Strange Hotel.
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Mar 8th 2020, 11:00 AM
# dita kraus
'I have a number on my arm from Auschwitz - and people say it never happened?'
Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus has written a memoir about her time in Auschwitz.
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Feb 23rd 2020, 10:00 PM
# read this
These are the Irish novels to look out for in early 2020
It’s going to be a jam-packed year.
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Dec 29th 2019, 1:30 PM
# Sports writing
Episode 11 of the Behind The Lines podcast - featuring Kieran Shannon - is out now
The much-respected journalist and author joins Gavin Cooney.
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Dec 4th 2019, 5:27 PM
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Dorothy Macardle: The rediscovery of an unlikely rebel and overlooked novelist
Macardle was a friend of Éamon de Valera, and he wrote the foreword to her book The Irish Republic.
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Nov 16th 2019, 11:00 AM
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'Rock and roll had come to town': The fascinating tale of JP Donleavy and his final posthumous novel
The legendary JP Donleavy’s publisher writes about how the author brought a ‘sprinkle of stardust’ with him when he arrived in Ireland.
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Nov 7th 2019, 8:00 PM
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A Sunday Miscellany essay by Lisa McInerney: 'Setting the scene'
The essay is one of those featured in the new book, Miscellany 50.
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Oct 27th 2019, 9:30 AM
# emily ruskovich
Living in a remote house on a mountain inspired this €100k-winning novel about a murder
Idaho is inspired by author Emily Ruskovich’s childhood.
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Jun 22nd 2019, 9:00 PM
# Treatment
'It all started with my balls' - Colm Tóibín's moving essay about cancer is a must-read
The piece beautifully details his diagnosis to treatment.
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Apr 12th 2019, 8:44 AM
Voices
Opinion: 'Why do we like reading about crime so much in Ireland? Because it offers escapism'
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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Oct 30th 2018, 9:00 PM
# the negotiators
Gerry Adams is publishing a cookbook and it'll be out for Christmas
The former Sinn Féin president has already published numerous memoirs and historical books.
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Aug 7th 2018, 6:33 PM
# turn the page
Here were our favourite books of 2017 - what about you?
We want to know.
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Dec 29th 2017, 6:00 PM
# lit festival
These Waterford teens have set up Ireland's first youth-run literary festival
We talked to them about how they did it.
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Nov 5th 2017, 8:00 PM
# bgeibas
Ruth Fitzmaurice: 'The writing just came out - it was raw inside me'
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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Nov 4th 2017, 9:45 AM
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Stay-at-home mom turned vampire author Clare Daly: 'How I became a writer'
Clare Daly is about to self-publish her first novel, an Irish Vampire story, Our Destiny is Blood.
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Oct 30th 2017, 7:30 PM
# Kazuo Ishiguro
British writer of The Remains of the Day wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The prize is worth 9 million kronor (€1 million).
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Oct 5th 2017, 12:29 PM
# Ross O'Carroll Kelly
'I spend my working life sitting behind a desk thinking in the voice of a south Dublin idiot'
Author Paul Howard turned a Dublin stereotype into a phenomenon.
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Oct 1st 2017, 10:00 AM
# Writing
'My teacher told me not to get my hopes of an A in the Junior Cert up - now I'm on the syllabus'
Poet Hazel Hogan’s Grangegorman has been added to the recommended list.
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Aug 19th 2017, 8:00 AM
# stuart neville
This Northern Irish author's new novel could be the next Gone Girl
We talked to Stuart Neville, whose new book Here and Gone has been optioned for a movie.
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Jul 30th 2017, 8:15 AM
# hennessy awards
An award-winning story before bedtime: I Could Have Been a Dancer
Read a story which won the First Fiction award at this year’s Hennessy Literary Awards.
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Apr 2nd 2017, 9:30 PM
# a dangerous crossing
'Parents protect children - but they deserve to know and understand what's happening in the world'
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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Mar 5th 2017, 10:00 PM
# page turner
Irish author Sebastian Barry scoops major Book of the Year prize
The Costa Book of the Year was formerly known as the Whitbread prize.
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Jan 31st 2017, 10:32 PM
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Kevin Barry: 'Sometimes writing no longer seems like the thing I do, it seems like the thing I am'
The award-winning Irish writer tells us about his apprenticeship, and his journey from journalist to author.
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Dec 25th 2016, 8:15 PM
# Well read
Munster memories, the physicality of modern rugby, the national anthem and all the week's best sportswriting
Plus, Harry Arter opens up about how his daughter’s memory has motivated him to help others.
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Dec 11th 2016, 8:30 AM
# Smut
These are the worst examples of writing about sex this year
Last year’s winner was former Smiths frontman Morrissey.
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Nov 18th 2016, 10:45 AM
# killer instinct
Irish crime writing is having a killer moment right now
We spoke to three of the country’s best authors to find out why.
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Oct 2nd 2016, 12:30 PM
# lady marian
8 reasons Marian Keyes is a proven national treasure
NOBODY say “chick lit”.
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Sep 27th 2016, 1:28 PM
# RIP
Tributes paid to Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel wrote tens of books and was a professor and Nobel Prize winner.
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Jul 3rd 2016, 12:50 PM
# get writing
Meet the Galway teen who's published her first book at just 16
We spoke to newly-published author Eilís Barrett, from Galway.
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Mar 28th 2016, 12:00 PM
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