Mary O’Donnell: ‘I’d happily sign off on a 10% Leaving Cert bonus for English, music and art’
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Author Emma Donoghue: ‘I grew up very normal, yet had this secret side that I thought everyone would consider foul’
An Arrow in Flight by Mary Lavin: Excellent exploration of a different yet similar Ireland
Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold edited by Ailbhe Malone – Breathtakingly varied tales rekindle storytelling tradition
Nine Days in May by Jonathan Schneer and Radicals: The Working Classes and the Making of Modern Britain by Geoff Andrews
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Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh: Prose that’s measured, assured and fully human
By Adam Wyeth
David Keenan: ‘For me, the names of places and streets in the North have incredible magic to them’
By John Self
Defiance by Loubna Mrie: A gripping, devastating account of a Syrian woman’s revolution
By Sally Hayden
Dublin Literary Award 2026 shortlist: ‘Literature at its most international, most ambitious, and most humane’
By Martin Doyle
Seán Lemass, The Lost Memoir: Leadership, Ireland’s economic transformation and Fianna Fáil
By Andrew Lynch
Everything That Is Beautiful by Louise Nealon: a breathless romance and a torrid hurling tale
By Mei Chin
Author Susannah Dickey: ‘With each book I find myself more invested in writing Ireland’
By Martin Doyle
EL by Thaddeus Ó Buachalla: An early contender for most ambitious Irish novel of the year
By Declan Burke
Communion by Jon Doyle: A genuinely idiosyncratic way of describing the everyday
By Lucy Sweeney Byrne
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe: Mastery of timing makes this investigation a page-turner
By Mia Levitin
Mr Hoo and Other Stories: No judgment in these barrister’s tales united by literary mastery
By Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
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