Announcing the Brian Moore at 100 Read-along for 2021!
Nonfiction November, Week 3: Be The Expert on Seamus Heaney
Nonfiction November: Week 2 – Book Pairings
Shortlist Announced for the Irish Book Awards ’20!
Derek Mahon, 1941 – 2020
Tea At Four O’Clock by Janet McNeill for the #1956Club
Recent Crime Fiction from Ireland!
No 477 Ghost Light by Joseph O’Connor Book 10 of #20booksofsummer20
Ghost light. An ancient superstition among people of the stage. One lamp must always be left burning when the theatre is dark, so the ghosts can perform their own plays Joseph O’Connor’s novel is teeming with ghosts, both imagined and real. Ghost Light, which was published before his critically acclaimed Shadowplay, also focuses on the…
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No 485 Fat Lad by Glenn Patterson
Glenn Patterson’s Fat Lad has long been described as one of the quintessential Belfast novels. The title comes from a mnemonic used in Northern Ireland to remember the names of the six counties – Fermanagh, Antrim, Tyrone, Londonderry, Armagh, Down – and yet the entire book is set in the capital city. Drew Linden, Belfast…
