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The Irish literary scene is thriving, which makes choosing just five other Irish writers likely to appeal to fans of Rooney a daunting task.
The venerated and critically acclaimed Shane MacGowan has died in Dublin at the age of 65.
The novel imagines how a society can be gripped by a slow-building authoritarian regime yet continue its mundane daily rituals.
Irish writers have benefited from structural factors in recent years. However, ask them in person and Irish writers are more likely to highlight impediments to producing work.
Perception and reality collide when a mother and daughter are compelled to live in the shadow of a monstrous artist.
John Banville calls Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill’s Hotel, ‘an inexplicably neglected 20th-century masterpiece’. Carol Lefevre shares her fascination with William Trevor’s ‘crazed’ photographer Ivy Eckdorf.
Samuel Beckett’s first play was once most notorious for the audible yawns, walkouts (and fights) during interval. But it is a play of great insight into the condition of waiting.
The famine caused a million deaths and scarred the national psyche for generations. How do you even start to try and represent that in film literature, or art?
Little is known, but much is speculated, about James Joyce’s daughter and muse, Lucia.
Around the world today, fans of James Joyce’s Ulysses will celebrate Bloomsday. This experimental novel can be bewildering to read, but for those who persist, it is a ‘feast’ of a book.
Top contributors
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Contemporary English Literature and Critical Theory, University College Dublin
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PhD candidate, King's College London
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Associate Professor in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
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Author: Reframing A Portrait of the Artist: Joyce and the phenomenological imagination, Western Sydney University
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Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin
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Visiting Research Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Professor, University of Sydney
