Are Irish writers losing their international mojo? As recently as five years ago, the lists of bestselling and most borrowed books in the UK would have featured at least five Irish authors -- if mostly such crafters of chicklit as Maeve Binchy, Marian Ke
Only three Irish books feature in the Guardian's list of 2011's 100 bestsellers, the lowest number in well over a decade, and two of these books -- Emma Donoghue's Room and Maeve Binchy's Minding Frankie -- were actually published the year before, the th
My students never tire of telling me that they don't like the prescribed literature for Junior Cert and Leaving Cert English. Being teenagers, of course, only the most recent or coolest material appeals to them, and it's with this in mind that I'd now li
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