Vacancy Watch: a big site near Fatima Luas stop
Even as the government casts around for new land to zone for homes, it is unclear when this plot will be built out.
Winner of the Penny Dreadful Novella Prize in 2016, and published by Dreadful Press, this novella unfolds at a frenetic pace and is teeming with ideas.
A feminist supporter of de Valera, a nationalist turned internationalist, many of Macardle’s beliefs seem to clash, which is what makes her work so rich.
Like someone scratching steadily at a dull, tarnished surface, Brennan reveals, without ceremony, bright glints of what lies beneath. Suddenly the reader is confronted with the terror of isolation that comes with being human.
Are these short stories, or 14 episodes culminating in one vertiginous mindscape? Author Elske Rahill reviews the latest collection from Joanna Walsh.
Chosen as this year’s One City, One Book selection for both Dublin and Belfast, this novel follows everywoman Katie and her everyman twin brother Liam through the Rising.
This is more a portrait of a murder victim than a mystery in the conventional sense, which is likely to divide readers.
We are fortunate that Dublin is such a walkable city so far as capitals go, writes Emma Gilleece. What better way to enjoy it than with this handy-sized book of architectural strolls?
In this short-story collection, Carson uses fantasy as a tool for getting at those truths that facts are too blunt for.
Sullivan’s latest young-adult novel doesn’t just tread dark waters, it dives right in. A multilayered mindscape, it pulls the reader deep into the character’s world, writes reviewer Elske Rahill.
An unnerving page-turner about lost voices, there could be no more timely reissue of this fantastic novel, writes Elske Rahill.
This eclectic bundle of essays, translations, myths and folktales, is all tied together by one unlikely theme.