No 492 Girls in their Married Bliss by Edna O’Brien #readingirelandmonth20
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…
Irish Book Awards 2015 – Shortlist Announced!
The Shortlist for the Irish Book Awards was announced today and there are some great books and authors to check out. The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards brings together the entire literary community – readers, authors, booksellers, publishers and librarians – to recognise and celebrate the very best of Irish literary talent across…
No 680 The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien
Reading The Country Girls today, it’s hard to imagine the outrage and scandal it generated when published in 1960. Criticised, banned and even burned, The Country Girls, with it’s tale of convent girls growing up in a small village in Ireland is often credited with opening up the discussion of social and sexual life from…
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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