Dublin City Council is delighted to announce that Snowflake by Louise Nealon is the ‘One Dublin One Book’ choice for 2024, following on from The Coroner’s Daughter by Andrew Hughes in 2023. ‘One Dublin One Book’ aims to encourage everyone in Dublin to read a designated book
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Frankie’s Little Miss Madser is the third book published in the Ashley Brown’s series. The book which is the sequel to The Promise Maker is written by author George Fitzgerald. The book which is set in mid 20th century Ireland is based mainly around the characters Ash and Frankie.
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This is the third collection of poetry by well-known Dublin poet James Conway. His previous collections were Vertebrae of Journey (2010), and The Purple Coat (2017), both which met with critical acclaim. Conway, a previous winner of the prestigious Jonathan Swift Poetry Award has a way of mesmerising with words.
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Bar Stool Notions of Poetry is one of Jonathan Roth’s many books of poetry. This book consists of 45 funny, moving and heartwarming, easy read poems. He dedicated his book to ‘tolerators of national poetry, proud West of Ireland culchies, fellow bar stool residents’ and a few more,
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The Magdalene Laundry system which operated in this country for over 150 years will forever remain a stain on the Irish psyche, and one that cannot easily be expunged. Now a new book has emerged which deals specifically with one of these laundries, the Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry (DML),
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From 8th-12th November book lovers can expect to journey across Dublin as this year’s fest looks to take place across a number of exciting venues: buildings, walkways, canals, gardens, bookshops and libraries across the city. The Festival Hub will return to the Printworks in Dublin Castle.
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Jonathan Roth is a retired medical gerontologist who spends his time between Dublin and Westport, Co Mayo. In 2022 Jonathan climbed Croagh Patrick (or the Reek as it known to locals) and a few weeks later wrote a poem about his experience called “Croagh Patrick…… The Reek” (which appeared in NewsFour and a Mayo paper).
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Books are always a wonderful gift for Christmas, they are certainly my favourite gift, and there are a lot of good new books of Irish interest out this Christmas. Here we will look briefly at just a small sample of them.
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Ronan Casey’s compendium, Medium Sized Town, Fairly Big Story, is classic stocking filler fare, especially if you have a taste for the oddities of small town life. Subtitled ‘The Stories that made the Headlines in Ireland’s Local Newspapers… And Nowhere Else’,
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Stuck for gift ideas for a loved one who has everything? Has that same person spent any of their days in the dancehalls of the 50s and 60s, or can they appreciate good photography? Dancehall Days could be the answer to your conundrum. It is a collection of photographs by Michael O’Reilly,
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