Two Irish writers, Emma Donoghue and Paul Murray, are featured in this year’s Booker longlist – Room by Emma Donoghue Skippy Dies by Paul Murray Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey The Long Song by Andrea Levy The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore C by Tom McCarthy The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson February by …
Poet Anthony Cronin will read from his new collection The Fall at Scoil Bhride tomorrow, Wednesday 14th July at 8.15pm. ‘An Evening of Poetry and Music’ has been organised by the Ranelagh Arts Festival and in addition to Cronin, features musicians Donal Lunny and Jimmy MacCarthy. Tickets are 10 euro and are available from the Ranelagh …
Barbara Demick has won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for Nothing To Envy: Real Lives in North Korea. Her book follows the lives of six ordinary citizens living under the harsh regime of North Korea. Information is so restricted there, that it remains the only country in the world without access to the …