Granard Booktown: Creating a Dingle of the midlands
Author, farmer and festival curator John Connell on creating a book town in his home county
By John Connell
A Dictionary of Irish Saints by Pádraig Ó Riain: Wonderfully written and incredibly valuable
Why would a father put his law student son in a car with a known fugitive?
Translated fiction reviews: the best of China’s incredibly deep storytelling tradition
Abundance; The Care Economy; The Measure of Progress: ‘The old is dying and the new cannot be born’
‘The city is always changing but this is the Dublin of now’: Declan Meade on capturing the capital in words and prose
Author Shane Hegarty: ‘I’m lucky to see the work done by teachers. They are undervalued’
Books in brief: Tales of a Patchwork Life; Calls May be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes; The Afghans; Holding The Line; I Hope You’re Happy; The Keeper of the Bees
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