‘I loved Alice Munro’s stories more than any I have ever read’ – Eilís Ní Dhuibhne celebrates the magic of the Nobel laureate author, who has died, aged 92 irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Moving on up: Are lower house prices in the North enticing first-time buyers from the Republic?

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Hey, Zoey by Sarah Crossan. Just finished this and it’s really good. Clever, emotionally intelligent, moving and funny. John Boyne reviews it this Saturday in Irish Times Books and Niamh Donnelly’s interview runs Saturday week.

Bruce Arnold funeral: ‘What a time we’ve been through, from John McCormack to Bambie Thug’

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Salmon Poetry is in The Irish Times today!

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‘Streets, corners, banal details of routine are all pumped with one promise: anything can happen.’

Music of chance – John Fleming on his encounters with Paul Auster

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Washing Windows IV: Irish Women Write Poetry

Launch reading, Wednesday 15 May at 6.30 Books Upstairs

All welcome

Helen Fallon Aimee Godfrey Helena Nolan Argosy Books Syracuse U Press RTE Arena Donal Lynch Martina Dalton CatherineDunneAuthor Síof Tanya Farrelly Shauna Gilligan

'Celebrating Ireland's Booker Winners'

The National Library of Ireland present
Anne Enright in conversation with Nuala O'Connor

TOMORROW, Tuesday 14 May at 6.30pm

A few tickets have become available. Book fast!

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Free event, booking is essential

Anthony Boyle is set to star in Skintown, adapted from Ciarán McMenamin’s novel of the same name.
Keeper Pictures will produce and Kieron J. Walsh (The Savage Eye) will direct. iftn.ie/news/?act1=rec…

Looks like the team of detectives who arrested the Yorkshire Ripper taking a photo with him before they charged him and banged him up.

Lovely piece. The fine margins of success and failure

“Britain has to drop the pretence that it is merely an honest broker. The state was a party to the conflict. It has a historic duty to submit its actions to independent judgment. Until it accepts that responsibility, the poison of the past will continue to seep into the future.”

I'm making my debut on Sunday Miscellany tomorrow on RTÉ Radio 1 A story about the first concert I organised in Galway fifty years ago, 11th May 1974, with The Chieftains. Programme 9.10am to 10am. Pic: Joe O'Shaughnessy Sunday Miscellany

Dan Geary on Great Disorder by Richard Slotkin: mapping of America’s past on to its present via myth. Mere deconstruction of national myths is insufficient; New Deal and the Black civil rights movement are alternative stories on which to build a future

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Karl O’Hanlon: It’s exhausting to have intergenerational trauma pawed over but, as with so much else involving the Tory government, there’s always fresh insult, spite and disproportionate cruelty. What’s novel is that fellow academics have been drawn in
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Mark O’Connell: With one stupid video, Apple gave us a neat metaphor for Silicon Valley’s cultural vandalism.

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I believe choosing how you spend your money is like choosing how you vote. Your actions as a consumer shape the world you live in. You can choose to vote for a country with thriving local businesses that employ local people and pay local taxes and rates.

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages and a wrap of the latest news, including UCD Festival’s literary highlights

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“The Horse is Willy Vlautin’s most satisfying book to date, with its central music narrative adorned with vivid vignettes of his usual offbeat, misfit characters tuned to the broken-down key of life in twilight towns filled with temptation and trouble”
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