Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso: Vipers in the undergrowth
Book review: A frugal family home is embedded in hypocrisy and protective silence
Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood: Wise warnings
Book review: Prolific author’s Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 covers a multitude
Mary O’Donnell: How the thoughts of others helped me unlock my own
In any profession, what counts is the kind nod, the passing blessing. I’ve had many as a writer
Tullamore a magical place? It was for a nine-year-old on holiday for the first time
I helped myself to some treats from the sweet counter, hiding the evidence under my bed
Remembering the owner of the Royal Hotel Belmullet and storyteller supreme
Family Fortunes: Settling back in his chair, Jack would regale us with stories from the past
A prosaic lack of women in the Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets
For someone on the edge of Irish literature, they can’t know what they are missing
‘Getting fired by Vincent Browne made me finish my first novel’
Mary O’Donnell’s ‘The Light Makers’ is being republished 25 years after initial release
Learning at the crossroads: You haven’t failed; the system may have failed you
The world can feel very unfair when the exam results don’t live up to expectations
Drawn to write about the Disappeared
‘The crux of my story is memory and truth, and how people play around with both, often out of fear, or guilt, or simply pain’
