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Kevin Barry
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'There is a clear delineation between civilians and the stars... The A-List engage with each other and the rest of us know to stay away'
Sunday February 28 2010
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Old enemy brings out Drico class
Thursday February 25 2010
IRISH captain Brian O'Driscoll does not expect anything other than a battle royal when he faces England.
Sting in the tail for a fine literary tradition
Sunday February 07 2010
The literary magazine has a long and illustrious history: the New Yorker, Granta, the Paris Review have all defined literary culture and nurtured the career of some of the world's great writing talents. But in today's tough market, where literary fiction is no longer the cornerstone of the publishing business, no longer the prestige flagship of any respectable publishing firm, the influence of the literary magazine is arguably no longer what it once was.
Evictions, hunger strikes, slaughter, unemployment, emigration are captured for generations to revel in
Kevin Myers Thursday April 02 2009
The National Museum of Great Irish Recessions is to open soon, and I was lucky enough to be given a private viewing by its curator, Dr Seamus Mac Anguish.
Reading between the lines during these hard times
Sunday February 08 2009
As recently as last October, publishers were heading to the biggest event of the publishing year, the Frankfurt Book Fair, in bullish form. Simon & Schuster UK publishing director Suzanne Baboneau was quoted in the Bookseller as going "with all guns blazing" and there was much talk of "business as usual". October 2 last year, 'Super Thursday', saw the publication of a whopping 800 titles, all competing for the Christmas bestseller lists.
Tax break gives Cecelia more cash to play with
Sunday January 11 2009
Best-selling author Cecelia Ahern, who has already been granted tax-free status for earnings from her novels, has now been given the perk by the Revenue Commissioners for her first play.
Human spirit triumphant in our writers' and critics' favourite reads
Sunday December 14 2008
Three Irish novels really impressed me this year. Carlo Gebler's A Good Day For A Dog (Lagan Press) is a remarkably compelling novel about a career criminal who lives within the strict code of his own peculiar version of morality.
