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In this world that is ever switching to digital, it’s important to continue shopping in bookshops and making use of your local libraries. This is a list of Dublin’s best bookshops and libraries. 15 Irish Novels You Should Be Reading…
Do you want to know our Top 5 Irish cultural magazines? Keep reading! Ireland has always had a very diverse media market. With titles such as: Time, The Economist or Hello!, they present a large number of international magazine titles.…
[wpdevart_youtube caption=”” align=”left”]ZNGU11lK_5E[/wpdevart_youtube] A walk through Derek Mahon’s life and work. “I lie here in a riot of sunlight watching the day break and the clouds flying. Everything is going to be all right.” (Everything Is Going to Be All…
There’s no better time to read spooky stories than in spooky season. The horror genre is packed full of imaginative stories of ghosts and ghouls that’s bound to get you in the mood for Halloween. Dracula, Bram Stoker The original…
I previously wrote an article, which you can find here, about the wide variety of free-to-enter writing competitions. Initially, the plan was to include paid and free examples, but so vast were the options, I decided to write two separate…
Irish novels, that is, novels written by Irish authors, are ever important on the literary scene. Some of the most famous novels in the world came from Irish minds, for example Ulysses, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Dracula. Ireland…
When Covid-19 first hit much of what we knew and how we lived changed. Cinemas were closed, eating out harshly curtailed and most forms of socialisation cancelled. A silver-lining, to a very dark period in history, has been a…
How 2020 is the year of the tragicomedy and why Samuel Beckett must have wrote it Samuel Beckett remains one of Ireland’s most renowned and celebrated writers, with his work still being studied and performed globally. Amongst Beckett’s most notable…
An Irish Author for Everyone I always feel a huge sense of pride when I pick up a book by an Irish author. Our island may be small, but there is an abundance of fantastic authors out there creating enthralling…