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Anne Enright on J.G. Farrell's
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In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
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Marc Raimondi
| June 25, 2025
Donal Ryan on Embracing the Evolution of Language While Preserving Its Essence
"There should always be a hint of beauty in its use, even in the mundane and numberless everyday exchanges that fill our existence."
By
Donal Ryan
| May 21, 2025
Ornament, Etiquette, Identity, Food: A Personal History of the Orange
Katie Goh Ponders Citrus in Art and Life
By
Katie Goh
| May 7, 2025
An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine
Padraic X. Scanlan on Jonathan Swift, Colonization, and Dispossession
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Padraic X. Scanlan
| May 7, 2025
From Philly to Derry: On the Americans Who Armed the IRA During The Troubles
Ali Watkins on Vincent Conlon’s Secret Life in the United States as an Operative and Gun-Running Irish Rebel
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Ali Watkins
| March 11, 2025
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Embracing Bucolic Beauty: On Finding Purpose and Joy in Raising Sheep
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Rosie Schaap on Losing Her Husband: “He Wanted to Go on Reading Because He Wanted to Go on Living.”
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Rosie Schaap
| August 21, 2024
Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence
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Caoilinn Hughes
| August 2, 2024
Jan Carson on Capturing the Failures of Northern Ireland in Fiction
The Author of "Quickly, While They Still Have Horses" Reflects on a Country's Disappointing Lack of Progress
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Jan Carson
| July 10, 2024
Facing That Which Haunts You: Ethel Rohan on Writing About Grief
“For most of my life, I’ve suffered in shame and silence while the men who hurt me got away scot-free.”
By
Ethel Rohan
| April 18, 2024
How Ordinary Irish Citizens Got Caught Up in the Violence of the Troubles
Henry Hemming on Bloody Sunday, Frank Hegarty, and Life in the IRA
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Henry Hemming
| April 15, 2024
The Past is a Fairy Tale: On Remembering and Forgetting in Modern Ireland
Clair Wills Considers the Making of Her Mother’s Family Fables
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Clair Wills
| April 3, 2024
A Vanishing World: On Europe’s Disappearing Peasantry
Patrick Joyce Explores the Social and Cultural Transformation of Rural Life
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Patrick Joyce
| February 28, 2024
Micheal O’Siadhail on the Pleasure of Writing Poems by Hand
The Author of Desire Charts His Journey from Pencils to Typewriters to Computers and Back
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Micheal O'Siadhail
| December 13, 2023
RIP Shane MacGowan: 7 Pogues Songs That Would Make Great Short Stories
Farewell to a True Legend
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Jonny Diamond
| December 1, 2023
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