Six Degrees of Separation – The Irish Edition!
My final books for #readingirelandmonth20
The Long Gaze Back – A Giveaway!
To celebrate Irish women writers, I am delighted to host a very exciting giveaway on the blog this week. I will be giving away a hardback copy of The Long Gaze Back, an anthology of short stories by Irish female writers, edited by Sinéad Gleeson along with a copy of Maeve Brennan’s novella The Visitor,…
Irish writers make the Baileys Longlist!
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016 long list was announced this morning and no better day for it that International Women’s Day! A massive congratulations to Lisa McInerney and Anne Enright who were included for The Glorious Heresies and The Green Road respectively. I’m currently slap bang in the middle of The…
Announcing Reading Ireland Month 2016!
Putting Irish Women Writers back in the picture
Growing up in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s, anyone interested in reading would be familiar with the Irish Writers poster. My Dad had the poster framed in his study and I had one on my bedroom wall, along with a set of Irish writers coasters. For several years I even had an Irish Writers…
Announcing Reading Ireland Month!
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. George Bernard Shaw March is coming, and that means St. Patrick’s Day, but there’s much, much more to Irish culture than shamrocks (which, by the by, are NOT four-leaf clovers) and driving snakes out of the country (this never actually happened either). St Patrick wasn’t…
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