No 535 Maeve Brennan Wit, Style and Tragedy: an Irish Writer in New York by Angela Bourke
Maeve Brennan, like her fellow New Yorker writer Mary Lavin, is one of those Irish writers that everyone should have heard of, but whose body of work hasn’t received the attention it deserves. In Wit, Style and Tragedy: an Irish Writer in New York, Angela Bourke aims to redress that balance and to return Maeve…
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Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Patricia Craig #readingirelandmonth19
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine for #readingirelandmonth19
Week 3 round up for Reading Ireland Month!
Short stories by Niall McArdle #readingirelandmonth19
No 536 After Rain by William Trevor #readingirelandmonth19
William Trevor has long been acclaimed as one of the finest short story writers in the discipline, and After Rain confirms that reputation. This is a stunning and affecting collection of twelve perfectly crafted stories, all exploring the lives of the lost and the lonely. With an unrivalled skill, he insightfully illuminates these quiet lives…
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Forthcoming Short Story Collections from Irish writers to look out for in 2019
Northern Exposure: Catholic Boy by Rosemary Jenkinson
No 537 Happiness by Mary Lavin #readingirelandmonth19
Mary Lavin is probably one of the best short story writers you have never heard of. A former staffer at The New Yorker in its heyday, Joyce Carol Oates has called her one of the ‘finest short story writers of the twentieth century’. Her stories are, in the main, concerned with the domestic sphere and…
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