Rousseau’s Lost Children by Gavin McCrea: Devastating intimacies exposed
Dublin-born writer returns with a novel pairing philosopher’s teachings with intimate, often devastating, story of a teacher and student
By Nathan Smith
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’
‘I did imagine an older Prince Charming coming into my life’: Gavin McCrea on walking in Paris with Rousseau
The Race Makers by Andrew Curran: Tackling the Enlightenment’s questionable legacy
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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
By Colm Tóibín
Local history: Rockite rebellion of 1820s, a Jekyll-and-Hyde press baron and the ‘gregarious grocer’
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