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Anne Enright
Latest articles about Anne Enright
Winter Papers & An Alternative Irish Christmas: An exquisite hardy annual and a wonderful gift
Winter Papers 11 is a Christmas annual to stand the test of time, and An Alternative Irish Christmas is great for those jaded by other literary offerings
James Joyce’s Legacies in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing by Annalisa Mastronardi: a suit of scholarly armour
For scholars of Joyce or Irish women’s writing, this study should prove a valuable resource
Olivia Laing: ‘I’m interested in fluidity, complexity, ambivalence, and that’s true politically and socially too’
The author on being publically nonbinary; their new book, The Silver Book; and how Pier Paolo Pasolini foresaw that the far right would rise again
Attention by Anne Enright: Critical alertness fuelled by an ever-expanding curiosity
Substantive collection of essays covers a range of topics including Alice Munro, mother and baby homes, and the troubling intersection between life and art
Anne Enright: ‘I’m in a lull. I’m trying to recalibrate after a long decade of elder care’
Anne Enright’s time looking after her parents has given the Booker winner an opportunity to take stock, both personally and creatively
Ian McEwan: ‘I’ve been following politics for years, and I’ve never felt such anxiety about the chaos, the lack of leadership’
The writer on his futuristic novel What We Can Know, climate change and the alarming lack of self-scepticism in Trump and Putin
Honing the craft of the Irish Writers Centre: ‘It’s a great story to tell, as we are a nation of storytellers’
Charity seeks to help writers of all levels through mentoring, masterclasses, courses, writers’ residencies, bursaries and competitions
Roddy Doyle: ‘I got a phone call from one of the New Yorker’s famous fact-checkers’
Authors Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Colin Barrett and Belinda McKeon reflect on the Irish relationship with the magazine ahead of an Abbey Theatre celebration
For Irish women writers, James Joyce was never a shadow but a light
Many Irish women writers have engaged with Joyce - both challenging and building on his legacy in their fiction. In studying them, I was also studying myself
50 years of women’s writing: The 21st century – a boom time... or is it?
Irish women writers’ success would be a cause for celebration, were it not for those pesky figures
Writer Orlaine McDonald: ‘I felt a strong need to transcend that little working-class girl who had got herself up the duff’
The No Small Thing author on losing her Irish mum, diversity in fiction and teenage motherhood
Moving to Ireland helped me understand my mother, her peculiarities and weird secrecy
Love in Irish families is more of a doing word than a saying one
Dublin, Written in Our Hearts, edited by Declan Meade: A gloriously evocative and meandering trip through the city
Anne Enright, Sarah Gilmartin, Kevin Barry and Paula Meehan are among the writers who contributed to this beautiful collection
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices