Being the one-man band behind Irish Writers Online, I get a lot of requests for links, and of course I do my best, but being as human as the next, I find that courtesy goes a long way. Muiris Ó Meara wrote me the following email, and I’m quoting in in full because I appreciate [...]

Brian Lynch will talk about and read from his novel ‘The Winner of Sorrow’
in Pearse Street Library next Wednesday 14 May at 6.30pm. Admission is free.
see Brian Lynch’s website.

A weekend honouring Pearse Hutchinson kicked off last night with a a fine interview with Hutchinson by Vincent Woods on the Arts Show (December 13), RTÉ Radio 1
This evening it continues with Pearse Hutchinson: An 80th Birthday Sympo.sium 14-15 December 2007. in the Robert Emmet Theatre (2037), Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin, starting at [...]

Note: some of the links in this post will bring you to amazon.co.uk
Just under a year ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Marion Kelly for her Parlour Review on what was then known as FM 103.2 Anna Livia, but is now known as Dublin City FM, on the 103.2 FM [...]

Banville did it, Roddy Doyle did it, John McGahern, Sebastian Barry and Colm Tóibín came close, but Anne Enright joins the tiny elite of Irish writers, and is the first Irish woman, to win the Man Booker Prize.
Wonderful.
The Gathering Wins the Man Booker
[photo credit: Joe O'Shaughnessy]

Complete List of Booker Winners
Anne Enright at [...]

Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Her citation reads:
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007
“that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny”
Doris Lessing
The citation for the IPCC and Al Gore reads
The Nobel Peace Prize 2007
“for their efforts to build up [...]

Two new books, out of thousands of others, are on the shelves today - The Wow Signal, by Patrick Chapman, and Redemption Falls, by Joseph O’Connor
There are so many Irish books coming on stream that it’s not practical for me to mention them all, but I mention Patrick because he’s my colleague and co-founder [...]

When I published my last novel, The Fisher Child in November 2000, the omens seemed good. It sold a stack of copies at the launch, it had a number of nice reviews, including in the TLS, and then…
It was published on the 14th of November, a date etched on my mind, and despite [...]

Sinead Gleeson over at The Sigla Blog has a lovely piece, Farewell Benedict Kiely, on the late, great writer.
See Benedict Kiely at Irish Writers Online
Benedict Kiely tribute at RTÉ News
Wikipedia entry on Benedict Kiely

My collaborator on Irish Literary Revival, Patrick Chapman, has an interview on
Authortrek.
His first collection of stories, The Wow Signal, will be published in the near future by Bluechrome in the UK.
As Todd Swift on Nthposition put it:
“If Cronenberg and Lynch were to have a child (and in some film-possible world they might) he [...]