Frankham & Love: Irish soul duo you’ll wish you’d chanced upon sooner
New album driven by crack team of musicians and vocals reminiscent of Winehouse
‘A jolt to the conscience’: women’s stories of fighting oppression
Yes, We Still Drink Coffee! is a collection of collaborative essays about overcoming injustice
‘I write stories to force adults to think about horrible topics’
16-year-old Amy Cahill – author of the story My Mammy Lives in a Box – on writing about suicide
Fighting Words partnership aims to harness creativity in the classroom
Partnership with DCU will see creative approaches embedded in teacher training
One hundred children make an Irish thriller
Roddy Doyle and children’s laureate PJ Lynch launch book written and illustrated in Fighting Words workshops
Fighting Words helps youngsters to find their way
Seán Love and Roddy Doyle, founders of the Fighting Words project, on the power of writing
‘The Writers’ Quarter’: a new story by Louise O’Neill
The author of ‘Only Ever Yours’ and ‘Asking for It’ continues Dublin in the Coming Times, our series imagining what the Irish capital will look like years, even centuries from now
The Dragon-Ship: a short story by Paul Murray
The Vikings return in Paul Murray’s short story, in the continuing series from the creative-writing programme Dublin in the Coming Times, which imagines the city’s future
Fighting Words: Issue six – going from strength to strength
Introducing this year’s new writing by children and young adults from The Irish Times
Fighting Words: Issue Five – going strong and moving on
The stories in this year’s selection by young writers include one from Fighting Words Belfast
Cog Notes: Roddy Doyle concerned about how Fighting Words might work as part of junior cycle
He and co-founder Seán Love advise against any form of assessment that would add pressure or take away from students’ enjoyment
Cuirt goes back to school
A panel on how to promote reading and writing in schools gets a warm reception at the literature festival in Galway
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