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Colm Tóibín’s Long Island, Lucy Caldwell’s Openings, Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits and Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments are among the novels with multiple selections
Lucy Caldwell
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Openings by Lucy Caldwell: Enlightening and enriching collection of stories that closes a loose triptych
The Belfast writer explores the gap between how people behave and how they would like to behave
Lucy Caldwell: ‘It took me more than a decade of trying to write short stories before any of them worked. It was long and gruelling’
Award-winning author explains the process behind Openings, her new short story collection
North stars: ‘The vitality of Northern Irish writing has always coincided with political upheaval’
Belfast has a healthy literary scene, closely connected with Queen’s University, whose creative writing tutors include poets Gail McConnell and Stephen Sexton
Lucy Caldwell: ‘In ways it was a normal childhood...and yet’
Author on how the Troubles affected her life, her writing and her Irish identity
Violets by Alex Hyde: Inventive story of motherhood in wartime Britain
Hyde draws attention to how women’s lives were considered interchangeable
Tides by Sara Freeman: A beautifully observed debut
Book review: One woman’s attempts to retrieve herself after loss
The Irish Times books of the year: Anne Enright’s favourite titles of 2021
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‘I don’t think I would be a writer were it not for Irish writers’
US playwright Brian Watkins takes inspiration from Joyce’s The Dead for his latest work, Epiphany
Druid theatre company says it will produce only new plays in 2019
New writing ‘has to be nurtured and taken care of’, says artistic director Garry Hynes
Dublin Book Festival: eight to see this weekend
The 10th annual Dublin Book Festival takes place this weekend, hosting workshops, walks, talks and readings by some of Ireland’s prominent writers. Here are some of the must-sees
Three Sisters review: Russian drama heads North and gets detached from its fiery source
There is little about these Belfast sisters that bears a resemblance to Chekhov’s original drama
Once upon a time in the Irish midlands
Enda Bowe’s photographs of an unnamed Irish town reveal young people on the brink of greater awareness
Ten great Northern Irish novels you might have missed
Authors are using new ways of writing to reflect a changed political environment
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