Sheila O’Flanagan: Losing family members makes you aware of how fragile our connections are
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We Need to Talk about Roy by Dave Hannigan: Game effort, but Roy Keane is no Katie Taylor
By NJ McGarrigle
The Shortest History of Ireland by James Hawes: Unorthodox, accessible, deeply impressive
By Neil Hegarty
The First Ghetto: Venice and the Jews by Alexander Lee: Stunning account of a dark history
By John Banville
‘My mother found love letters written to my father by another man when pregnant with her fourth child’
By Alex Clark
The Library of Traumatic Memory by Neil Jordan: Immediately engaging kaleidoscopic read set in 2084
By Val Nolan
Crime fiction: From a disturbing revenge story to a Romanian detective in an absurd bind
By Brian Cliff and Elizabeth Mannion
Neil Tully’s The Visit: ‘I wrote the sort of novel I like to read – a small town, a sense of trouble lurking’
By Martin Doyle
Minor Black Figures: a searingly intelligent critique of contemporary culture
By Margot Guilhot Delsoldato
A Rebel and a Traitor by Rory Carroll: Thrilling account of a key figure in Irish history
By Julian Girdham
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