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When in Rome … go where the Romans go, not the tourist crowds

The Eternal City’s monuments and museums are busy at the best of times, but there remain myriad treasures to explore that are well off the beaten track

The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2025

‘People are rooting for the whale’: the strange American tradition of Moby-Dick reading marathons

For decades, diehard fans have joined together to read Herman Melville’s 600-page novel aloud in exotic locations

The Guardian - US · Dec 8, 2024

BBCNOW/Paterson/Wills review – from Joyce’s muse to Point Reyes’s whirling birds

Simon Wills’s new concertante ballet, premiered here, proved engaging but too discursive in a concert that also featured Gabriella Smith’s Tumblebird Contrails and Ives’ first symphony

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2024

Ferdia Lennon: ‘I was tired of Merchant Ivory accents’

The recent winner of the Waterstones debut fiction prize on literary friendships, the lucidity of Georges Simenon and Irish writing’s debt to the financial crash

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2024

Liars by Sarah Manguso review – searing tale of a toxic marriage

This compulsive, claustrophobic account of a bad relationship becomes starved of oxygen in the same way the narrator is

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2024

My encounter with Edna O’Brien, the great literary crusader and giant of Irish literature

The death of Edna O’Brien at the age of 93 brings an end to the long reign of one of Ireland’s greatest writers, who attracted both controversy and adulation throughout her trailblazing career. Lynn Enright remembers the profound personal impact of her debut novel ‘The Country Girls’ – banned in…

The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2024

Edna O’Brien obituary

Novelist who scandalised her native Ireland with The Country Girls, and explored the lives of women who love and suffer

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2024

Paris and Chariots Of Fire Games made for each other

Paris was at a peak in 1924 when it last hosted the Olympics, with sprinters Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell immortalised in the 1981 film Chariots Of Fire.

AAP · Jun 25, 2024

Yes festival review – a marvellous appreciation of Molly Bloom

A two-year celebration of the centenary of James Joyce’s Ulysses culminates in a female-led, cross-border, multidisciplinary festival dedicated to the protagonist’s wife

The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2024

Joe Joyce obituary

Award-winning journalist who worked for the Irish Times and the Guardian and co-wrote a bestseller on the scandal-prone taoiseach Charles Haughey

The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2024