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Irish Literature
May 17, 2021
June 3, 2020Naoise Dolan probably wishes her debut novel, Exciting Times (Ecco, 2020), wasn’t so relevant. Although the book isn’t set during a global pandemic, it does include the many un…
April 23, 2020Left: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal in Normal People (2020) / Courtesy of IMDB Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel is a meticulous observation, or even a study, of how one human being…
October 16, 2017Clifden Bookshop, Galway / Photo by janmennensWhile Ireland’s increasingly multicultural population has finally led to a greater representation of diversity in Irish fiction, this essay r…
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