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In The Irish Times tomorrow, Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch tells Lauren Murphy about his debut novel, Nobody’s Empire. In his new book, Ghosts of a Family, Edward Burke identifies the man he believes to have been responsible for the brutal killing of a Belfast Catholic family in 1922, and details the repercussions of the massacre. He talks to Mark Hennessy. There is a Q&A with Máire Zepf about her adaptation of her Irish-language children’s series Rita for TG4.
“Winning the Fiction Category and Gold Prize was a great extra boost for The Bee Sting as we prepared to launch our paperback edition, and we were delighted when the book went straight into the Top 5 of the Sunday Times paperback fiction bestseller chart.” Belfast author Michael Magee won the debut fiction prize for Close to Home.
A discovery of big historical and literary significance about Stoker has been made and will be discussed in detail at a worldwide exclusive public event in the Pillar Room at the Rotunda Hospital with Miriam O’Callaghan interviewing the person who made this discovery, Brian Cleary, as well as Paul Murray and visual artist Paul McKinley about Brian’s incredible find, the fascinating and heartwarming story behind it, and what it means for the legacy of Stoker.
An annual favourite, Spooky Stories at Marsh’s Library invites guests to wander the darkened galleries where books of witchcraft and heresy are to be found. This free, eerie experience is sure to send shivers down your spine, just as it did for a young Bram Stoker who visited the library many times.
From extreme biohacking in Silicon Valley to doomsday ‘preppers’ in New Zealand, Mark draws on the personal to interrogate the collective crises facing humanity. Published at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, Highlights include Sreang Dhofheicthe / Invisible String: The Taylor Swift Project, featuring songs from folklore and evermore translated into Irish and performed by Róisín Seoighe & IMLÉ, and An Craiceann agus a Luach, a retelling of the mermaid myth by storyteller Eithne Ní Ghallchobhair, accompanied by a live score from Steve Cooney.
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