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Liam Harrison, spit the pips

An Interview with Brendan Barrington, Editor of The Dublin Review

By Liam Harrison The Dublin Review is a quarterly magazine of essays, memoir, reportage and fiction. Founded and edited by Brendan Barrington in 2000, The Dublin Review has a wonderful twenty-three year history, celebrated by the recent anthology of essays Show Your Work (2022), with earlier pieces collected in The Dublin Review Reader (2007). While the journal has published many great short stories over the years, … Continue reading An Interview with Brendan Barrington, Editor of The Dublin Review

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Alice Seville, spit the pips

A Conversation with Stephen Sexton

By Alice Seville In March 2021, still in the depths of pandemic chaos in the UK, Alice Seville met with the lovely Stephen Sexton over Zoom, to talk about his Forward Prize-winning poetry collection (Best First Collection, 2019) If All The World and Love Were Young, in anticipation of his more recent collection Cheryl’s Destinies (2021). The following is an account of their conversation. Stephen … Continue reading A Conversation with Stephen Sexton

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Book Review: Hearts and Bones by Niamh Mulvey

By Natalie Wall Niamh Mulvey’s debut short story collection, Hearts and Bones, captures contemporary concerns about the challenges of communication and connection in an increasingly reified society, and explores these through everyday life and familiar characters. Set mainly between Ireland and London, these are stories about family, love, friendship and shame told through quiet but sometimes brutal details. Mulvey, originally from Kilkenny, is based in … Continue reading Book Review: Hearts and Bones by Niamh Mulvey

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Contemporary Irish Literature Book Club: Claire Keegan

For the next session of our Contemporary Irish Literature Book Club, we will read and discuss Claire Keegan’s new book Small Things Like These, via Zoom on Wednesday the 16th of February at 7pm. If you would like to attend the book club, please sign up to on Eventbrite page here, and we’ll send you a link ahead of the session:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contemporary-irish-literature-book-club-claire-keegan-tickets-254665891537 The book club … Continue reading Contemporary Irish Literature Book Club: Claire Keegan

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Contemporary Irish Literature Book Club: Sally Rooney

This October we are starting up our Contemporary Irish Literature Book Club! We’ll have a chat about a recent Irish book over Zoom, and suggest a few points for discussion. The first book we will discuss is Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney on Thursday the 14th of October at 7pm. If you would like to attend the book club, please sign up … Continue reading Contemporary Irish Literature Book Club: Sally Rooney

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‘Capturing the Contemporary’: The New Irish Studies

What are ‘the New Irish Studies’? In the ‘Capturing the Contemporary’ webinar on the 3rd of December 2020, attendees were treated to a range of creative and scholarly takes on this question. Hosted by the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) in conjunction with the Dublin Book Festival and Cambridge University Press, the event was chaired by Paige Reynolds, editor of The New Irish Studies, a … Continue reading ‘Capturing the Contemporary’: The New Irish Studies

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