Council forfeits €600,000 for Smithfield Square, as deadline for drawdown passes
The plaza needs help, says Sean Mullan, owner of the Third Space cafe. “Someone with the imagination that we could make this a vibrant space that belongs to the city.”
One of our book reviewers, novelist and mother-of-three Elske Rahill, has over the past year compiled a list of tried-and-tested recommendations of children’s books for a range of age groups. Here they are.
If you want to understand the complex identities, origins, and beliefs of Ireland’s Muslims, and their contributions to the country throughout history, start with this book.
Fractured family relationships form the heart of this debut collection, eleven short stories shot through with moments of sadness, longing, and resignation.
If there was a genetic difference between Europeans and Americans, we could certainly cry racist, as “Purity” contains all the signifiers of a master-race narrative.
This book has been presented as empowering, groundbreaking, liberating. To us it just reads like porn, though perhaps there’s nothing wrong with that.
Since 2012, Eoin McAuley has remained steadfast in his goal of putting out quality comic books. He believes there’s a comic out there for every one of us.
The characters in Thomas Morris’s debut collection of short stories may not know what they’re doing, but luckily for us, their author does.
Gaffney’s uncompromisingly accurate depiction of Dublin’s underbelly in the noughties adds greatly to the story, but there is no nostalgia here, only an attempt to capture its dirty, dark charisma.
Are women at a disadvantage when it comes to getting published, getting reviewed, hitting the bestseller list, and winning prizes? Well, yes and no.
Berlin’s stories have a power and rhythm of their own, a companionable force that takes the reader jovially by the hand and tightens to a painful grip.
One weekend after author Jax Miller finished writing it, Harper Collins reportedly paid a six-figure sum for Freedom’s Child. Did the publisher get its money’s worth?
What saves the reader from growing impatient, even irritable, at the narrator’s self-serving and not entirely reliable ramblings is the writing.