# Writing
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2023
Writing
'That is an urban myth': John Boyne claims he never had a spat with Auschwitz memorial museum
11 Mar 2023
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writing our history
Declan O'Rourke: 'I think we all have these ghosts and figures lurking in the past'
10 Nov 2021
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Voices
Opinion: 'In my everyday reality, self-love doesn’t protect me from racial harassment, sexism and ableism'
Rosaleen McDonagh
4 Nov 2021
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Short stories
The winner of the RTÉ Short Story Competition 2021 has been announced
27 Sep 2021
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Voices
Extract: Roisin Kiberd on how Facebook helped change the internet - and our lives
Roisin Kiberd
10 Mar 2021
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Voices
'It reinforced my sense of belonging': One Dublin One Book author Rónán Hession on his life in reading
Rónán Hession
9 Mar 2021
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comfort reads
The books that brought writers like Roddy Doyle and Tana French comfort in 2020
30 Dec 2020
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new irish writing
'It's so astounding that a woman can disappear to that extent': Rediscovering the author of Ireland's greatest love poem
20 Sep 2020
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Voices
Opinion: Want to use this time to write a short story? Here are some top tips
Vincent Woods
8 Aug 2020
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strange hotel
Eimear McBride: 'The amount of 'she's not a genius, she's a very naughty girl' I've got is just ridiculous'
8 Mar 2020
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dita kraus
'I have a number on my arm from Auschwitz - and people say it never happened?'
23 Feb 2020
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Sports writing
Episode 11 of the Behind The Lines podcast - featuring Kieran Shannon - is out now
4 Dec 2019
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Voices
Dorothy Macardle: The rediscovery of an unlikely rebel and overlooked novelist
Caroline B Heafey
16 Nov 2019
10.1k
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Voices
'Rock and roll had come to town': The fascinating tale of JP Donleavy and his final posthumous novel
Antony Farrell
7 Nov 2019
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Voices
A Sunday Miscellany essay by Lisa McInerney: 'Setting the scene'
Lisa McInerney
27 Oct 2019
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emily ruskovich
Living in a remote house on a mountain inspired this €100k-winning novel about a murder
22 Jun 2019
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Treatment
'It all started with my balls' - Colm Tóibín's moving essay about cancer is a must-read
12 Apr 2019
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Voices
Opinion: 'Why do we like reading about crime so much in Ireland? Because it offers escapism'
Sam Blake
30 Oct 2018
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the negotiators
Gerry Adams is publishing a cookbook and it'll be out for Christmas
7 Aug 2018
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lit festival
These Waterford teens have set up Ireland's first youth-run literary festival
5 Nov 2017
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Voices
Stay-at-home mom turned vampire author Clare Daly: 'How I became a writer'
Clare Daly
30 Oct 2017
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Kazuo Ishiguro
British writer of The Remains of the Day wins Nobel Prize for Literature
5 Oct 2017
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Ross O'Carroll Kelly
'I spend my working life sitting behind a desk thinking in the voice of a south Dublin idiot'
1 Oct 2017
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Writing
'My teacher told me not to get my hopes of an A in the Junior Cert up - now I'm on the syllabus'
19 Aug 2017
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stuart neville
This Northern Irish author's new novel could be the next Gone Girl
30 Jul 2017
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hennessy awards
An award-winning story before bedtime: I Could Have Been a Dancer
2 Apr 2017
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a dangerous crossing
'Parents protect children - but they deserve to know and understand what's happening in the world'
5 Mar 2017
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Voices
Kevin Barry: 'Sometimes writing no longer seems like the thing I do, it seems like the thing I am'
Kevin Barry
25 Dec 2016
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