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The Latest Breaking News from John McGahern

Colin Barrett: ‘My wife is astonished that I’m able to write’

The award-winning author on his move from short stories to novels, writing marginal characters in small-town Mayo and the Irish fiction he rates most

The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2025

Where to start with: Claire Keegan

Shortlisted for the Booker, passed among families and picked up by Cillian Murphy for the big screen, the Irish writer’s razor-sharp fiction leaves you wanting more

The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2024

A dearth of priests suggests the Catholic church should widen recruitment

It’s no wonder numbers training for the priesthood continue to fall when married men or any woman are still barred

The Guardian - UK · May 11, 2024

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‘It’s not that I’m against story. I like films with stories’: Pat Collins on directing a tale without a plot

That They May Face the Rising Sun, about a small rural community in Ireland, has little obvious drama. The director explains how that is exactly what’s winning it awards

The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2024

That They May Face the Rising Sun review – poignant rural meditation on life and friendship

In this adaptation of the John McGahern novel, about a middle-aged man who has returned, with his wife, to the countryside of his childhood, makeshift friendships are forged and life’s grand rhythms observed

The Guardian - UK · Apr 22, 2024

A Guest at the Feast by Colm Tóibín review – words never fail him

The clarity of the novelist’s descriptive ability shines through essays on topics ranging from his treatment for cancer to the joys of an empty Venice

The Guardian - UK · Nov 29, 2022

A Guest at the Feast by Colm Tóibín review – a writer’s roots

Droll, careful reflections on Ireland, illness and religion in a welcome collection of essays

The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2022

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You’ve got style: Brilliant books on creative writing

From Italo Calvino to Dorothea Brande, Emma Cummins reflects on the books that inspire her as a writer

The Guardian - UK · Jul 20, 2022

Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's reinvention

Talking to the author of "We Don't Know Ourselves" about the contradictions of Irish identity, past and present

Salon · Mar 17, 2022

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