Irish writers on Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist
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Books: Vote for the best Irish fiction of the 21st century
Our experts have ranked the best Irish novels and story collections published since 2000. Now it is your turn
The Next One is for You by Ali Watkins: Shining a light on Noraid
Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall – An endless blizzard of gushing
Author Jess Kidd: ‘My daughter said: Mum, do you think you might be autistic?’
Children’s fiction: Books with gnomes, aliens, monsters and climate catastrophe
The Slow Road North by Rosie Schaap: A beautiful, unsparing memoir about grief
Naoise Dolan on Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
A Time for Truth by Sarah Corbett Lynch: Daughter of Jason Corbett makes for a compelling and understandably angry narrator
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Unravelling an Irish-American family mystery: my great-grandfather arrived in the US in 1922, on the run as an IRA man
By Ali Watkins
Author Paul McVeigh: ‘In Belfast, you go on a bad date and after that you bump into them every time you go out’
By Martin Doyle
A Room Above the Shop by Anthony Shapland: A potent work above frustrating love that dispels initial scepticism
By John Boyne
Count Me Out by Bob Quinn: The real nuggets are in the personal stories of this important film-maker
By Kevin Rafter
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: how we made the list and what it says about the state of Irish fiction
By Martin Doyle
A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay: A beautiful, poetic novel about an ageing ganja farmer in Jamaica
By Julia Kelly
Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X Scanlan - Interesting and new takes, and much to debate
By Breandán Mac Suibhne
