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Tag Archives: Irish Literature

2024: A Year in Books

03 Friday Jan 2025

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction

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Marilyn Monroe reads Walt Whitman (Photo by John Florea)

For me, 2024 was a nebulous year when literary favourites returned but the best novels came from unexpected quarters. It was perhaps a stronger year for non-fiction, particularly when exploring the lives of creative women. Continue reading →

2020: A Year In Books

22 Tuesday Dec 2020

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A Thousand Moons, A Year in Books, Adiana Shibli, Ana Maria Matute, Arthur Morrison, Celia Stahr, Daddy, Death In Her Hands, Eimear McBride, Elena Ferrante, Emma Cline, Emma Donoghue, Erika Lee Sears, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, Fernanda Melchor, Frida in America, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo and San Francisco, Graphic Novel, Hettie Judah, Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick, Hurricane Season, Irish Literature, Jack, Louise Erdrich, Marilynne Robinson, Mexico, Minor Detail, Native American Literature, Ottessa Moshfegh, Palestine, Rickard Sisters, Robert Tressell, Sam Selvon, Sebastian Barry, Short Stories, Socialism, Spain, Strange Hotel, The Housing Lark, The Island, The Last Interview, The Lying Life of Adults, The Night Watchman, The Pull of the Stars, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Windrush, Working Class Writers, Zora Neale Hurston

Art by Erika Lee Sears

The turmoil of 2020 hasn’t affected my reading much, although I miss going to the library and have turned instead to Kindle. Among the 100+ books I’ve read this year, I’ve enjoyed discoveries old and new, plus the latest output from my favourite contemporary authors. However, some of my greatest pleasures lay in neglected midcentury classics which finally got their due. Continue reading →

All the Beggars Riding

27 Monday Jan 2014

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All The Beggars Riding, For Books' Sake, Irish Literature, Jane Eyre, Lucy Caldwell

All the Beggars Riding by Lucy Caldwell

Set in London and Belfast, and with a nod to Jane Eyre, Lucy Caldwell‘s All the Beggars Riding was one of my favourite novels of 2013. Ahead of the paperback release, you can read my review at For Books’ Sake.

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The Cold Eye of Heaven

17 Wednesday Aug 2011

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Christine Dwyer Hickey, Dublin, For Books' Sake, Irish Literature, The Cold Eye of Heaven

My review of The Cold Eye of Heaven by Dublin novelist Christine Dwyer Hickey is published today at For Books’ Sake

Fictional Characters: Paula Spencer

05 Thursday May 2011

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For Books' Sake, Irish Literature, Paula Spencer, Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

I have chosen Paula Spencer, heroine of Roddy Doyle’s novels, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors and its sequel, Paula Spencer, as my favourite fictional character. Find out why at For Books’ Sake

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