#readingirelandmonth19 Week 4 round-up!
It’s been another busy week for Reading Ireland Month and this week I concentrated on Non-Fiction, which is really flourishing here in Ireland! I reviewed: Notes to Self by Emilie Pine Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Patricia Craig Maeve Brennan Wit, Style & Tragedy: an Irish Writer in New York by Angela Bourke…
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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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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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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No 538 The Ante-Room by Kate O’Brien #readingirelandmonth19
Ante-Room (noun): A room before, or forming an entrance to, another A small room, especially a waiting room, that leads into a larger, more important room The Ante-Room, Kate O’Brien’s second novel, was published in 1934, but is set in 1880. A deeply moral work, it focuses on the lives of the prosperous Mulqueen family…
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No 539 I Am Mary Dunne by Brian Moore #readingirelandmonth19
The title of Brian Moore’s sixth novel from 1968 could be a statement or a question, as his titular character battles with the notion of identity over the space of one day. I Am Mary Dunne, is a touching portrait of a neurotic woman trying to figure out who she was and who she has…
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No 540 Girl with Green Eyes (The Country Girls #2) by Edna O’Brien plus giveaway! #readingirelandmonth19
It’s week two of Reading Ireland Month and this week I will be highlighting classic Irish literature. Last week saw the launch of the programme for the 2019 Dublin One City One Book festival, which this year features The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O’Brien. The Country Girls Trilogy joins a long list of illustrious…
