Gethan Dick wins Kate O’Brien Award
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The Lock-Keeper’s Wife by John MacKenna: Menopausal protagonist brought low by a lousy husband
A novel that follows Julie MacDermott on her return from ‘The Mental’, to which she was committed by her spouse
By Brigid O'Dea
What Dev did next: The lasting legacy of Ireland’s actions at the end of the second World War
Rousseau’s Lost Children by Gavin McCrea: Devastating intimacies exposed
Two Irish authors on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist
Field Notes from an Extinction by Eoghan Walls: Compelling story of survival and apocalypse
Femina Culpa celebrates ordinary women in history accused of terrible deeds
John Banville’s Christine Falls chosen as One Dublin One Book 2026
Irish myths for modern women: ‘I grew up thinking my name brings sorrow to all men’
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‘I did imagine an older Prince Charming coming into my life’: Gavin McCrea on walking in Paris with Rousseau
By Naoise Dolan
Author Cathy Kelly: ‘I doubt there’s a writer alive who hasn’t used personal battles in their work’
By Martin Doyle
The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale: A slim novella of disconnection
By Rachel Andrews
Colm Tóibín on the writer Mary Lavin: She removed the props by which we might read her women easily
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