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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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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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CIL

Welcome to the Contemporary Irish Literature Research Network! The contemporary Irish literary scene is in rude health. Established forms like the short story have seen a resurgence, while the essay is being reinvented and growing in popularity. As established writers pursue new directions, another generation of diverse and exciting voices has emerged through a series of anthologies and standalone works. Irish writers have flooded the … Continue reading CIL

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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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A Sense of Possibility: Contemporary Irish Women Writers on Ulysses

by Annalisa Mastronardi This month marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Annalisa Mastronardi speaks to contemporary Irish women writers about the legacy of the novel: how it has impacted on their work and changed their perception of literature’s possibilities.  A shortened version of this piece was first published by The Irish Independent.  “Will you, for Chrissake, stop asking fellas if they’ve read … Continue reading A Sense of Possibility: Contemporary Irish Women Writers on Ulysses

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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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An Interview with Paper Lanterns

By Orlaith Darling Orlaith Darling (OD): Maybe we could start by introducing Paper Lanterns – what sort of writing you publish, how many issues you’ve had so far, who the team is, and so on. Margaret Masterson (MM): Paper Lanterns is a teen and young adult (YA) literary journal, started in early 2020. It was founded by two of my colleagues from the MPhil in … Continue reading An Interview with Paper Lanterns

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“Joyce and Nora’s life had such detail, texture, triumph, sadness”: An Interview with Nuala O’Connor

By Annalisa Mastronardi Nuala O’Connor (also known as Nuala Ní Chonchúir) is a writer of fiction and poetry from Dublin, currently based in Galway. Publications include The Juno Charm (2011), a poetry collection with Salmon Press, Joyride to Jupiter (2017), a short story collection with New Island, as well as several novels including Becoming Belle (2018) and Miss Emily (2015). Her work has been nominated … Continue reading “Joyce and Nora’s life had such detail, texture, triumph, sadness”: An Interview with Nuala O’Connor

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An Interview with Susanna Galbraith

By Alicia Byrne Keane Alicia Byrne Keane (ABK): First of all, it’s great to have the opportunity to interview you! I have really enjoyed your recent poetry in Banshee and Anthropocene. I wondered could you talk a bit about your own poetry first, maybe in terms of your process of writing about imagery from nature? I know every poem is different, but do you find … Continue reading An Interview with Susanna Galbraith

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