# Writing
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Well read
How human cock-fighting garnered acceptance and more of the week's best sportswriting
6 Mar 2016
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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn
This incredible Irishman is unknown in Ireland - but he's one of our greatest writers
11 Oct 2015
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RIP
'Trailblazer' and novelist Jackie Collins dies aged 77 - sister Joan leads tributes
20 Sep 2015
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Media
Falling in love with sport and Baggio's nicks: it's the week's best writing
14 Jun 2015
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Steady Hand
This vibrating pen makes writing easier for those with Parkinson's disease
31 Mar 2015
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just the two... or three of us
Rising rental costs are making people share rooms with strangers
26 Feb 2015
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way with words
This woman will be the face of Irish fiction for the next three years
29 Jan 2015
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Pen to Paper
Want to start writing in 2015? Here are five steps to help you begin
1 Jan 2015
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Well read
What's the big deal about McGregor? It's TheScore.ie's 50 favourite sports articles of 2014 (part 2)
25 Dec 2014
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stopped the presses
Final issue of Connacht Sentinel put to bed after 89 years of news
25 Nov 2014
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throbbing member
7 horrific sentences from this year's Bad Sex in Fiction nominees
12 Nov 2014
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Voices
Opinion: The cultural influence of Yeats, Beckett and Heaney stretches across the world
Cathal Quinn
13 Aug 2014
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good reads
Unmoving Messi, folding arms and star-attachment; the week’s best sportswriting
6 Jul 2014
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Right to Read
Literacy to be targeted with the 'priority it deserves' at local level
3 Jul 2014
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it's only words
What does it take to translate a best-seller into another language?
15 Jun 2014
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Voices
Column: It’s time to break down the barriers around poetry
Stephen Downes
22 Feb 2014
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winners
Irish Book Award winners: Roddy Doyle, Darina Allen, David Walsh and Fintan O'Toole
26 Nov 2013
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Books
Roddy Doyle, Eamon Dunphy and Claudia Carroll among book of the year nominees
1 Nov 2013
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Reading
All-Ireland final tickets, the mob and Messi: it's our favourite sports writing this week
1 Sep 2013
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Writing
The Sunday Papers: Thatcher, WWE and John Barnes – the week’s best writing
25 Aug 2013
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Voices
Column: To be a successful writer nowadays, you have to embrace social media
Stephen Downes
17 Aug 2013
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recommended manoeuvres
12 words you have to Google every single time you spell them
10 Jul 2013
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Harry Potter
Check out J.K. Rowling's hand scrawled outline for Order of the Phoenix
15 May 2013
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