Book Review✨ Psychological Thriller/ Mystery 3/5⭐️ •Delia has lived in disguise for years. With her strange upbringing & trauma, her mindset is strange. Who is she? Who else could she be? What hand was she dealt and who could she have been instead? Hear me out…Liz Nugent is hands down one of my favorite authors. This one was a flop for me 😬 it would have been two stars but the end made up for the whole thing. The psychological aspect kept me on my toes but it just was not fast paced enough. The way the chapters were set up with the stories inbetween was not for me either, I found them very boring. On the flip side- Liz has a way of making a disturbing character next level. I felt like I truly knew Delia IRL. Her writing style was phenomenal as always, this one just didn’t hit for me. • • • #bookstagram #booktok #booksbooksbooks #bookstagrammer #irishliterature #psychologicalthriller #bookreview #goodreads #thrillerbooks #thriller #suspense #reading #readersofinstagram #booknerd #bookworm #bookphotography #booklove #reading
Ars est celare artem Come sia venuto in mente a Flann O'Brien di scrivere un libro su un tizio, che scrive un libro su un altro tizio che scrive un libro, ma che viene deriso, torturato e perfino messo sotto processo dai suoi personaggi, non lo capirò e non voglio capirlo. Davanti al genio ci si meraviglia e ci si inchina. Ridurre la genialità altrui a oggetto di manierismo da studiare e replicare è qualcosa che mi fa una profonda pena... Ma sto divagando. Dove eravamo? Agli inchini. Mi tiro un attimo su per aggiungere un paio di cose. In questo romanzo si ride, ci si stupisce e ci si perde in una grande varietà di registri (dal colloquiale all'epico), di tematiche (il senso della letteratura, i rapporti familiari, l'istruzione, i presunti modelli comportamentali prescritti dal cristianesimo), ma anche di tecniche, alcune delle quali (dalla metanarrazione alla frammentazione narrativa) sembrano anticipare l'estetica postmoderna (considerate che si tratta di un'opera del 1939). Questo oggettivamente. Personalmente poi ci ho visto una delle più pure forme d'amore esistenti, quella che lega lo scrittore alle sue creature di carta, che hanno più anima di tante creature in carne e ossa, ma soprattutto contengono un pezzetto della sua anima. È un amore che lacera, che isola dal mondo, che rende folli. Come ogni Amore Vero dovrebbe fare. Altro che festini e saloni. E siccome ho un animo romantico, e per restare in tema d'Irlanda (e di amore, per quanto mi riguarda) faccio partire questo pezzo dei Pogues. Provate come me a immaginare che uno Scrittore canti queste parole alle sue Creature di carta. E se l'effetto non vi dispiacerà, allora dovreste proprio leggerlo, questo libro. Now the song is nearly over We may never find out what it means Still there's a light I hold before me You're the measure of my dreams THE POGUES, A Rainy Night In Soho #flannobrien #atswimtwobirds @adelphiedizioni #thepogues #rumsodomyandthelash
Trying a little something new in my sketchbook, inspired by James Joyce prose from Ulysses. Still working it out… #jamesjoyce #ulysses #classiclit #classicliterature #literaryart #poeticart #prosepoetry #literatureart #bookloversunite #bookloversofinstagram #bookloversclub #greatwriters #greatwriter #penguin🐧 #bookaesthetic #bookartwork #bookstagram #irishliterature #classicauthors
A classic poem of Yeats, said to be inspired by his misremembering of an Irish folk song he heard an old peasant woman singing in County Sligo. We hope you enjoy taking a moment to read this touching piece. #poetry #irishpoetry #poetrygram #yeats #irishliterature #irishwriter
Have you published (or are you going to publish) a collection, pamphlet or chapbook between 1st September 2023 and 1st September 2024? If so, we'd love to hear from you. We are currently assembling potentials for review in our next issue - Issue 19 - which is due to launch in Autumn. We are particularly interested in poets based in Ireland, or Irish poets based abroad. If you are just starting off in your poetry career (debut collection etc.), we are very interested indeed, especially if we have published one of your poems in the past. Email us now for more details at [email protected] @galwayartscentr @galwayliteraryevents @artsofficegalwaycity @poetryireland #galway #galwayarts #poetry #poetrycommunity #irishliterature #irishpoetry #poetrylovers #poetsofinstagramcommunity
i have many feelings about this book… its long. it’s slow at points. there is a significant chunk with practically no punctuation whatsoever! but the story is kind of like watching a train wreck that you can’t look away from but slow motion and less violent? just wheels, cars, caboose (and perhaps catalytic converters if trains have those? iykyk) falling off as the train barrels forward. by the end, i did feel positively about this - it was worth the trouble! a sweeping family saga about dickie, imelda, cass, and pj barnes. they live in a rural irish town not far from dublin. dickie has taken over operations of his father’s successful VW dealership. imelda is a housewife who spends money like it’s her job. cass is nearing the end of high school, falling from top of her class into delinquent drinking. pj is only 10, feeling neglected by his family, turning to playing in the woods and the refuge of his online gaming friends. most of this book is told in large chunks from each barnes family member’s perspective. cass and pj set the present day scene, while imelda and dickie give us glimpses into their past and how the family came to be. i found those sections (especially imelda’s punctuationless one) to be a bit of a slog at times, but they also gave me the most emotional engagement and feeling. imelda and dickie’s shared tragedy and the lives, futures, and possibilities they left behind to end up together was very compelling. the final hundred pages begins to crescendo, interweaving the plot lines of each of our characters. it felt like a much needed propulsive rush at the end of many long sections. i will say that the end of this book is left ambiguous. which shockingly for me wasn’t that much of a frustration? i was satisfied by the action and building tension of the final sections. however, if you think an open ending to a 650 page book will irk you, i may advise not setting out on the journey that is this book! 4 stars despite my conflicting feelings. drop ur thoughts in the comments bc i am honestly so curious!
Song: Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift “’You’re supposed to love me the most.’ The baldness of this. It was something neither of us would say to a boyfriend, terrified as we were of admitting raw and open need. But we could say it to each other.” Rachel and James stumble their way through the tulmultuous times of their early 20s in Ireland (2009 to present-ish day). Riddled with love, heartbreak, and utter ridiculousness, Rachel and James’s relationships are messy, and oh so familiar. I loved this book so much I finished it in one day. O’Donoghue has the incredible ability to capture the ugliest parts of her characters in such a beautiful way, you can’t but help to love them (and, at times, relate to them). The story of Rachel and James is completely unpredictable and mesmerizing, and reminds me of a more light-hearted version of Sally Rooney’s writing/characters. While their actions can feel ridiculous, they’re also SO believable—to the point that as a audience member of the story, you can’t do much more than sympathize with and quietly root for them all. This is a story about love (and how incredibly beautiful and painful it can be) and self discovery. It is also a testament to how far hope can take you—for better of for worse. #book #booklover #bookstagram #irish #irishliterature #tbr #literature #literaturelover #readmorebooks #readersgonnaread
Book Mail Feature Thank you so much to @DartFroggCo and @ScribnerBooks for my #Gifted copy of LONG ISLAND by Colm Tóibín out now (5/7) Synopsis: From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love , the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work, twenty years later. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades. One day, when Tony is at his job and Eilis is in her home office doing her accounting, an Irishman comes to the door asking for her by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. It is what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—in response to this stunning news that makes Tóibín’s novel so riveting. Long Island is about longings unfulfilled, even unrecognized. The silences in Eilis’ life are thunderous and dangerous, and there’s no one more deft than Tóibín at giving them language. This is a gorgeous story of a woman alone in a marriage and the deepest bonds she rekindles on her return to the place and people she left behind, to ways of living and loving she thought she’d lost. —Q: Have you read this author before? I haven’t, but I have been kindly gifted two books in this series and I can’t wait to dive in. #LongIsland #ColmTóibín #ScribnerBooks #IrishLiterature #ProudIrish #KerasAlwaysReading #HistoricalFiction #InstaBook #InstaBooks #BooksOfInsta #BooksOfInstagram #ReadersOfInstagram #IGReader #IGReads #InstagramReads #LibraryOfInstagram #InstaReads
[Booked] Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett, 1947. ৳ 499 Faber & Faber, Paperback (UK) Edition, 1953, 6th Reprint. Condition: Used, Excellent. Spine unbroken. Pages unbent, crisp white, and tight binding. #banglabooks #dhakagram #dhakareaders #dhakathrifts #dhakabookstore #samuelbeckett #waitingforgodot #watt #absurdism #novel #irishliterature #jupiterbooks #faberbooks #faberandfaber #endsgame
The books I bought the other day in Cheltenham: the bee sting by Paul Murray and the temple of fortuna by Elodie Harper. I have heard great things about the bee sting as it was on the Booker prize shortlist and I loved @jackbenedwards review of it, so am looking forward to reading this soon! 🐝 The temple of fortuna is the third and last book in the Wolf Den series and I was waiting for it to come out on paperback so I could read it and add to my collection🐺 I finished this book yesterday and loved it - my full review will be out soon! ✨️ #thewolfden #elodieharper #thebeesting #paulmurray #bookprize #bookworm #books #bookshop #ladder #classicliterature #fantasy #mythology #ancientrome #romanempire #irishliterature #bookerprize #book #library #aesthetic #bookreview
Déjà en librairie : "Un fantôme dans la gorge", de Doireann Ní Ghríofa (@editions_globe) #irishliterature #litteratureirlandaise @literatureireland #literatureireland #irishwriter #irishauthor @doireann.ni.ghriofa #doireannníghríofa #unfantomedanslagorge #editionsglobe #aghostinthethroat @tramppress #booklover #bookstagram #livrestagram #livresaddict #livraddict #instabook #instalivre #passionlivres #lecturedumoment #sortielibrairie #nouveautelitteraire
Sally Rooney Conversations with Friends 🌟🌟🌟.5 I am no longer a Sally Rooney hater 🫢 I tried to watch Normal People and I tried to read Beautiful World, Where Are You, and couldn’t finish either of them. But something about this book kept me flipping through pages. I didn’t find the dialogue as painful as her other works, it still made me hate the characters at times but in this book I felt like it was actually on purpose. The book can be summed up as ‘beautiful college students with seemingly no responsibilities and their relationships with people that hurt them and who they hurt in return’. I think a lot of the criticism Rooney receives is due to her characters not outright stating with they want. But I read that as a purpose picked tool to comment on the Irish habit of sweeping things under the carpet. (I read a very good review that mentions us no longer being repressed by the church and so we instead have started to repress ourselves. Someone please pay me to write an essay on this.) We just avoid talking about difficult things and therefor they don’t exist. If Frances had asked Nick to either divorce his wife or stop seeing her, the book would be over a lot sooner. Instead we see Francis as she stumbles over love and lust again and again. She is a stumbler. She finds herself in friendships and situations with no real effort of having pursued them. She flips between loving and hating Bobbi, her ex-girlfriend and best friend / performing partner. Seething with an unmentioned jealousy for how easy Bobbi holds peoples’ interest. It reminded me a lot of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Luster. Don’t pick up this book if you’re looking for something plot heavy, it’s very much a read-for-the-vibes type book.
✨Prophet Song by Paul Lynch✨ On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband. Things are falling apart. Ireland is in the grip of a government that is taking a turn towards tyranny. How far will she go to protect her family? This book hits hard - taking something that we think is impossible and making it real. Written brilliantly and terrifyingly relevant - this book will lead you to question how safe you feel in your home country, and how much you can ever really trust the government. If you were ever into George Orwell's "1984" or Margaret Atwood's "Handmaids Tale" - pick up Prophet Song, but be warned that it's just as heavy as the above-mentioned classics. This is dystopian fiction at its finest.
Este fin de semana lluvioso me invitó a terminar otro libro. "Cosas pequeñas como esas", de #clairekeegan Esas cosas son tan pequeñas que no caben en una vida y van pasando de generación en generación hasta que alguien dice, por qué? Conmovedora historia como nos tiene acostumbrados esta autora irlandesa. Sabe ocupar poco espacio para decir sobre los problemas de la humanidad. En este caso, con una sutileza casi quirúrgica nos muestra que la verdad siempre estuvo y está delante de nuestros ojos. La única decisión ética que podemos tomar los mortales es verla o seguir como si no estuviera, a pesar de saber de ella. Por eso "el camino te llevará donde quieras ir". Está dicho desde el comienzo, no necesita esconder celosamente un final. Todo está ahí. "Por qué las cosas más cercanas a menudo eran las más difíciles de ver?" Porque ahí está lo poco de verdad que podemos aprehender. Sin embargo hay que tomar cierta distancia para acceder a esas cosas pequeñas. Es un relato sumamente respetuoso de las posiciones subjetivas pero va al hueso, no se desentiende ni un segundo de su responsabilidad como texto. No es un texto inocente, pero tampoco acusador. Es una vuelta más a los grandes dolores que nos han constituido en todas las épocas y en todos los lugares. Aquí y allá Small things like these escriben los grandes temas de la humanidad. Claire Keegan, lo hizo otra vez. No se la pierdan ☘️💚☘️ #irishliterature #irishlife #irishwriters #irishbookstagram #leerliteratura #leeresvivir #lectores #lecturasrecomendadas #libroscompartidos #gruposdelecturaenespañol #booklover #literaturairlandesa #profesoradeespañolparaextranjeros #spanishforforeigners #spanishlearning
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (316 pages) 2.5/5 stars Bought this in Ireland! Crazy that this was written in 1700s….personally I think if I was an 18th century Irishman I’d eat this up. As it stands it simply is a bit hard to read for modern audiences. Still it’s highly entertaining. I loved Gulliver’s character growth as he came to understand the larger world. And ofc the political satire blah blah blah 😇 #gulliverstravels #irishliterature #jonathanswift #books #literature #bookstagram #classicliterature
2023 in books, part 3 🌠☘️🤓 A very violent, very bloody book about 4 retired women assassins with a hit out on them! And two of the best books of the year, both Irish novels. A romance, and many lives, shattered by an act of awful violence, and in another book, a life saved by doing the clearest right thing. About ‘Small Things’ I wrote, “Sometimes we can complicate the honorable and right thing, and confuse the path most taken with the way things should be. This short book comes along and shows us how easily and quickly we could choose another way, and in the process save ourselves.” #irishliterature #bookstagram #thrillerbooks
I don't know what to say. I'll be honest. I thought it might be either too serious or else a bit diddley-eye. Or possibly both. I didn't expect to like it. I was only reading it because everyone says the film is very good and my own personal rulebook demanded I read the book first. I realised pretty quickly that I was the eejit. From the start it unsettled me. Rattled Stirred up. Upset. Can I tell you why? No. I don't know why. Only that it shifted something, let something out. I don't even know what. Is there a plot? Well. Yes. But not much. There is a shape to it. And the people in it are real. Rutledge is McGahern, undisguised. The place, as it happens, is south county Leitrim and the graveyard, I'm almost certain, is the one where my great grandparents are buried. I suppose that must have something to do with it, but it's not as if I ever knew them. It was more the way his descriptions made it all so real, so much so that I swear I could smell the green gardeny smell of the place. Honeysuckle, I think. My Granny, like McGahern, called it woodbine. It reads like a dream, simultaneously vivid and slippy. This is writing as magic, capturing time and place and fleeting love. "'It couldn't have been planned better,' Rutledge said as he handed back the letter. It was written with care and it brought a small world to life." Nope. I don't have the words. Some books you just have to read for yourself. #thattheymayfacetherisingsun #johnmcgahern #irishwriters #irishauthor #leitrim #irishliterature #bookstagram #bookthoughts #bookreview
This Is Happiness is the kind of slow-paced, character-driven, meandering novel I am very much a fan of. And taking place in Ireland to boot! But I have to say that the first half was too slow for me. I acknowledge that the slowness was to a large extent needed to create the kind of unhurried pre-modernity atmosphere prevalent in rural parts at this time, but I had trouble staying engaged. It contributed to a bit of a reading slump for me, but I liked it enough to keep going, albeit slowly. The second half was better and held more actual story than the first half, and the last tenth or so was superb, luckily ending the novel on a high. I liked the narrative choices made, going back and forth between young Noe’s experiences and old Noe musing on his feelings and occasionally unreliable memories and recounting what happened to certain people long after that summer. I liked the insight into the everyday existence of the many characters we meet, and they won’t fail to move you in one way or another (not least Doady and Ganga who will burrow their way into any heart). It’s a love letter to a lost way of life that in many ways was harsher but perhaps, overall, more beneficial to ourselves and to the planet we inhabit. #thisishappiness #niallwilliams #irishliterature #bookreview #literaryfiction #bookphotography #summerreads #springreads #springreading
24.💚💚💚💚 The Bee Sting by Paul Murray It’s been a long time since I’ve read a 600 pager, but this one was worth it and was so good it didn’t even feel that long.Four members from one family narrate this book of a dysfunctional family in modern day Ireland. [Image Description: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray is photographed on Sally’s book shelf.] . . . #TheBeeSting #PaulMurray #ManBookerPrize #IrishLiterature
[BOOK REVIEW] I often go into books not knowing what to expect but ‘Close to Home’ by Michael Magee was so different from other books I have read. Set in Belfast, this is a story of modern masculinity and finding your way in a place you used to call home. The story is so raw and honest but sensitive and nuanced at the same time. The characters are complex and in the end I could not help but love them. It is a dark read but one that I would highly recommend. This one blew me away. #bookstagram #bookstagramireland #bookstagramgermany #irishliterature #bookrecommendation #booksiread #instabooks #closetohome #michealmagee #bookreview #bookreviewer #goodreadsreview #2024reads
This one’s for you @joe_novella 😘 #literaryquotes #booksbooksbooks #johnboyne #irishliterature
Al #salonedellibro di Torino con @intrecci_rivista per @ibis.edizioni . Trovate anche intrecci 5, fresco fresco di uscita, di cui ho illustrato la copertina. Un ringraziamento speciale a @parolemigranti_traduzione ❤️ #parolemigranti #salonelibro #salonelibrotorino #intreccilarivista #torino #racconti #jancarson #ireland #northernireland #letteraturairlandese #irishliterature #englishtranslation #irishauthor #illustrationartists #illustrations #illustration #rivistaletteraria #rivistaletterariaillustrata #tradurrelaletteratura
📖 Moins de 2 semaines avant la Nuit de la Littérature, organisée par le @ficep ! Rendez-vous le 25 mai dans les jardins de l'@iicparigi pour aller à la rencontre de 20 auteurs et littératures du monde 🌍. Au programme : discussions, sessions de dédicaces, lectures à l'oreille, mais aussi point d'échange de livres, librairie itinérante, restauration italienne... et DJ set en clôture. Entrée libre dès 14h30 - programme complet : www.ficep.info. Pour l'Irlande, c'est l'auteur Dermot Bolger et sa traductrice française Marie Hermet qui viendront (à 16h20) nous parler du recueil de poésie "The Venice Suite". #nuitdelalitterature #ndll2024 #ficep #litterature #institutitalien #paris7 #parisvillemonde #lemondeaparis #culturesetrangeres #culturesdumonde #litteraturesdumonde #parisgratuit #irishliterature #litteratureirlandaise @literatureireland #literatureireland #irishwriter #writer #irishauthor #author #dermotbolger #thevenicesuite #mariehermet #centreculturelirlandais (crédit visuel : @sarahmazzetti/ @kiblind_magazine)
Ik schreef al eerder dat ik na het lezen van Booker Prize-winnend "Prophet Song" van @paullynchauthor meteen zijn werk met terugwerkende kracht zou gaan lezen. Gelukkig maar want anders had ik zijn prachtige "Grace" waarschijnlijk gemist. Een indrukwekkende soms hallucinerende vertelling dat zich afspeelt tijdens de grote hongersnood in Ierland in 1845-50. Met ook een duidelijke link naar wat er nu speelt: de hongersnood trof niet iedereen, vooral de rijken en de overheerser hadden nergens last van en verscheepten zelfs voedsel vanuit Ierland naar de UK. Deels dus een "manmade" hongersnood die leidde tot de dood van meer dan 1 miljoen Ieren. #paullynchwriter #irishliterature #irishwriter #irishfamine
James Joyce was perhaps one of the most influential modernist writers. His writing has been celebrated by many writers. His short story “The Dead” is often considered one of the greatest short stories ever written, and his Ulysses is an epitome of experimental writing, after reading which even George Orwell says that it gave him an inferiority complex. Though in 1904 at the age of 22 Joyce left Dublin due to self-imposed exile, his mind and his writing never stepped outside the city of Dublin. Which became the subject of his first short story collection “The Dubliners”. #JamesJoyce #Joyce #Dubliners #Ulysses #Literature #IrishWriter #Modernism #Author #LiteraryGenius #IrishLiterature #Bookstagram #Reading #ClassicLiterature #LiteraryQuotes #Bookworm #LiteraryInspiration #LiteraryCommunity #Bookish #LiteraryLandscape #LiteraryWorld #LiteraryLegacy #LiteraryGreats #WriterLife #LiteraryClassics #Wordsmith #LiteraryJourney #LiteraryMasterpiece #LiteraryCriticism #ArtOfWriting #BookLovers
📚Ulysse de James Joyce 🌬️Il faut accepter d’être bousculé, au gré des desiderata de l’auteur, comme Ulysse a subi la colère des Dieux. Merci à @lectures_germanopratines et @read_to_be_wild d’avoir initié cette lecture commune car c’est un morceau de bravoure, surtout si comme moi vous avez l’édition sans numéro de chapitres -tel que rédigé par l’auteur- et sans notes de bas de pages! 🏺Les références à l’odyssée sont disséminées mais il est difficile de toutes les saisir, en ce qui concerne mon expérience, j’ai été ballotée de chapitres en chapitres dans des mondes différents. Ce fut une lecture épique car il y a beaucoup de personnages, des ambiances, des genres variés, 18 mondes différents en une seule journée où nous emmène l’auteur : des dialogues crus, mais aussi de longs flux de conscience, des exercices de styles, des échanges universitaires, métaphysiques, des références multiples, Hamlet, du latin, l’opéra, de patois, du gaélique, pour terminer avec le dernier chapitre, sans aucune ponctuation, à lire d’une traite en prenant une grande respiration. Comme si on voyait se défaire la tapisserie de Pénélope -nom de ce chapitre- en tirant sur un fil qui finit sur un « son cœur battait comme un fou oui j’ai dit oui je veux bien Oui. » 🎈Beaucoup de références m’ont sans nul doute échappé et surtout il y a une singularité de la langue qui fait regretter de ne pas être en mesure de lire l’auteur dans le texte. Il fait subir des déformations à sa langue, un vrai jeu de piste. La lecture de « James et Nora » en parallèle est lumineuse : « ce que le lecteur perd en certitudes, il le regagne en liberté de choix », avec Joyce « chaque mot semble larguer les amarres » (post face de Dauzat). 🎈Je n’aime pas qu’un auteur me tienne la main, avec Joyce donc j’ai adoré être ainsi désorientée… A chacun de trouver sa porte d’entrée, le fil d’ariane dans cette lecture échevelée. Certains chapitres m’ont d’avantage embarquée que d’autres avec des phrases que j’ai répétées à voix haute, inscrites sur un carnet, et qui vont longtemps m’habiter… 👇ci-dessous et en story quelques passages 👇
QOTD: Do you read celebrity authors? . I do occasionally, but don't ever expect them to be good. These are 2 that I spotted on the shelf on holiday, I'll admit I haven't read them and probably never will, but very on theme for #Eurovision last night! . I'm still working my way through Butter, finished my re-read of Love in Colour. We had a busy day yesterday and likely will today too so might not get much reading done 🙃
Going into Connemara is like stepping into a Walter Macken novel. Otherworldly is so many ways! #Ireland #wildIreland #ruralIreland #hillyIreland #Connemara #hill #irish #Irishliterature #irishculture #Gaeltacht #irishart #irishartist #buyirishart #BuyDirectFromArtist
Discover the lyrical world of Patrick Kavanagh, one of Ireland’s most cherished poets, in our upcoming Zoom course, "God and Patrick Kavanagh." Explore how Kavanagh’s writings weave the profound themes of faith and grace into the fabric of Irish culture. His unique voice—part mystic, part realist—offers a raw, insightful look at the spiritual landscapes of Ireland through tender and strikingly honest verse. Join Patrick O'Donnell and Matt Doyle for six sessions where we'll discuss his impactful work "No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh" by Tom Stack. Whether you're a longtime admirer or new to his work, this course promises rich discussions and new perspectives on the intersections of poetry and spirituality. 📅 Dates: Mondays, May 20 - June 24 ⏰ Time: 8:00-9:15 PM 💻 Platform: Zoom 💳Fee: $150 📋Register at celticjunction.org/classes/ Reserve your spot for an exploration of Kavanagh's exploration of the divine in the everyday. #patrickkavanagh #onlinelearning #learningcommunity #IrishLiterature #PoetryLovers #SpiritualPoetry #adultlearners
I never really understood the hype of the Irish literary canon. Obviously we've got the goods, but I always figured that theirs were as good as ours. I get it now. I'd read classic science fiction from everyone BUT Irish writers (aside from Stoker and Le Fanu), until today. Irish writers are something special. The comical misery is there. The doomed romance is there. The 'Irishness' is abundant. These stories were written between 1856 and 1912, but they read like they were written by my friends yesterday. I've never felt more connected to dead writers in my life. I get the whole literary identity thing now. I'm so proud to be from this weird little clowncar of an island. Even in worlds they invent for themselves, Irish artists make sure that something is shitting on them from unimaginable heights. #ireland #irishliterature #sciencefiction
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(Swipe for full review) “nothing coming through at all but the certainty of being wholly displaced here in this house, my own house and the uncanny feeling of dragging my own after-image with me like an intermittent being, strobing and flickering even while sitting here with my hands placed flat on the table” ~~~ Winner of the @goldsmithsprize 2016 Winner of the @dublinlitaward 2018 The writing was lyrical and there were some moving moments (such as the protagonists father grappling with loss). I also admired how politics was explored and its power conflicting with engineering safety advice. Unfortunately I couldn’t really connect fully with the novel as it was so cerebral it lacked some warmth/humour. I also disliked how quickly Mairead forgave him for (SPOILERS) cheating on her, seemed very unrealistic. And I really hated how it was downplayed by the protagonist, it was all about how upset he was, when he caused this harm. This is a personal take but I despise cheating, and despise when it is downplayed and accepted. I do think that the novel is worthy of its awards as it is an ambitious book in having only a single sentence in the entire book. I would be interested in reading another of the author’s works at some stage. 🦴 🧱 🗺 #bookstagram #solarbones #mikemccormack #irishbookstagram #irishbook #irishbookstagrammer #bookreview #dublinliteraryaward #literaryfiction #experimental #writing #streamofconsciousness #irishliterature #irishfiction
We've had a lot of interest in Irish literature recently, so we've put together a little collection of the works by Irish authors we currently have available in our shop. Some of these titles include rare and collectable copies of De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, and an anthology of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's works. We also have a number of Irish CDs for sale. #books #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksta #bookstagramnz #nzbookstore #nzbookshop #bookshopsoftheworld #bookshopsofinstagram #bookstoresofinstagram #bookstoresoftheworld #bookstore #bookshop #secondhandbooks #secondhandbookstore #secondhandbookshop #irishbooks #irishauthor #irishliterature #oscarwilde #richardbrinsleysheridan #jamesjoyce #patriciascanlan
Congrats to @anjilibabbar on her Anthony Award nomination for Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction! All our fingers and toes are crossed 🤞❤️ #mysterybooks #crimefiction #awardwinner #irishliterature #irishfiction #tbr #bookstagrammer
✨️LONG ISLAND by Colm Toibin ✨️ ➡️ Oprah's Book Club Pick. Named a Most Anticipated Book by The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, and more. Having loved both the book and movie adaptation of "Brooklyn," this book was one of my MOST anticipated reads of the year. It absolutely lived up to my expectations. While I suppose you don't need to read the first book to enjoy this one, I do think you'd be missing out on the full impact of the story without having read it. Ellis is a character that continues to intrigue me. She's back in Ireland, twenty years after she married Tony. She has two almost full-grown children yet things are uncertain in her marriage. She still shows the same strength, bravery, independence and tendency to keep to herself, yet she grapples with the complexities of familial relationships and continues to make hard decisions. Would I be able to put up with the things that she does in the story? Nope. But, I admired how she handles things. I loved reading about how the characters' lives evolved over the past twenty years —Tolbin offered the perfect amount of detail. And the tension between Ellis and her old flame Jim, the friendship with her old friend Nancy and the strained relationship with her mom. My goodness. I loved all of it. I can't say I was a fan of Jim or Tony in the sequel as I was in Brooklyn — their actions in the sequel irked me. I won't spoil anything; read it yourself and see if you agree or disagree. Am I excited to tackle Tolbin's other books on my shelves now? Yes, I am! I think the next will be NORA WEBSTER as she was mentioned in this book. Highly recommend. You can get your hands on this now! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you so much to @penguinrandomhouseca and @netgalley for the #gifted e-copy in exchange for my honest opinions. --- ❓️Are you planning to read this one? Did you read or watch Brooklyn?
Meet Gerald Dawe: Belfast-born Irish poet & writer. Author of 8 poetry collections and 4 essay volumes. He is a former Professor at Trinity College Dublin with recent work featured in top literary journals. Award winner of the 28th O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award and Arts Council of Ireland Poetry Awards. #IrishLiterature #irishpoet #irishpoetry🍀
“We spend our whole lives waiting. Waiting for spring. Waiting for summer. Waiting to fall in love. Waiting to fall out of it again. Waiting to get pregnant. Waiting for permission. Waiting for remission. Waiting for the surgery that may or may not help. We wait for those results. That piece of news. That text, that call, that knock at the door. We wait for our kids to be born, go to school, go away, have kids of their own. Then we wait for them to come back. We wait for inspiration. Wait for that promotion. Wait and wait for something to happen that we think will make it all better. I’ll be happy when, we say. When this, when that. Never now, never here. Meanwhile, life happens in the waiting. It takes place in the in-between. When you’ve let go of the last rung and before you’ve caught hold of the next. Life happens in the reach, the release, the free fall. While you sit, remembering then and imagining when, life unfurls, blooms, and withers without your even noticing.” Better by Far has one of the most powerful depictions of loss and grief that I have read recently. I cried nonstop through several chapters, so be warned! I hope you give this one a try. I think it’s more than worth it. In honesty, there may be moments where the writing is do descriptive that it takes you out of it, but again, it’s worth seeing it through to the end. . . . . . . . . . #litfic #irishliterature #books #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #explorepage #hazelhayes #literature #tbr #read #readingtime #readinglist
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack A pensive and poignant short novel focusing on Nealon as he is released from prison to an empty home on the west coast of Ireland. There is a sombre and reflective atmosphere as Nealon comes to terms with the absence of his wife and child. Sinister calls from an unknown person invade his reflections on his life until we find him travelling in the second part of the book to Dublin to meet this mystery caller. The journey there reveals more details on his marriage and his relationship with his son. It is rather haunting the way his life is laid to bare , but beautiful. In the final part, Nealon meets with the mystery caller, who fills in the blanks of Nealon's story from his perspective as a policeman. He reveals a marvellous con with a humanitarian and almost artistic slant. Their conversation is interspersed with breaking news of international mayhem and imminent security threats with news reporters waiting to be updates alongside the country on future actions. There is a resigned nature to the proceedings, alongside tension, anxiety, and fear. There is a doggedness to Nealon, and despite his sombre and reflective mood, there is a dark humour to the conversation. While Nealon resigns himself to a solitary fate, and questions remain over the future, there is a beauty in the recognition rather than a sense of doom. Wonderful writing. #thisplagueofsouls #mikemccormack #netgalley #tramppress #irishwriters #writingIreland #Ireland #Irishliterature #irishbookstagram
For fans of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, Sinéad Gleeson’s essays chronicle—in crystalline, tender, powerful prose—life in a body as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood, and love of all kinds. I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles. We treat the body as an afterthought, until it no longer can be. Until the pain or the pleasure is too great. Sinéad Gleeson’s life has been marked by terrible illness, including leukemia and debilitating arthritis. As a child, she bathed in the springs of Lourdes, ever hopeful that her body would cooperate, ever looking forward to the day when she could take her body for granted. But just as she turns inward to explore her own pain, and then the marvel of recovery, and then the arrival of her greatest joys—falling in love, becoming a mother—she turns her gaze outward. She delves into history, art, literature, and music, plotting the intimate experience of life in a women’s body across a wide-ranging map. From Nick Cave to Taylor Swift, Botticelli to Frida Kahlo, Louisa May Alcott to Lucy Grealy, Constellations is an investigation into the different ways of seeing, both uniquely personal and universal in its resonances. For more books, visit our store at Crossroads Mall Karen, next to Morgan Forex Bureau Shop B6. Shop via our website on www.Halfpricedbooks.co.ke (link on bio) You can talk to us via 0702680255 Reserve online via our till no 9896195. Deliveries Nationwide. Ksh 800 #irishliterature #essays
On to this well actually I read it yesterday review later today two guys chewniver the fat in the pub if whose died or football etc #irishliterature #abookadayinmay #bookstagram #bookblogger #amreading
The Joyce family & their Zodiac Signs. Who do you share a sign with? Traits of each sign (generally speaking): Aquarius: Analytical, Original, Humanitarian, Independent & Easy Going Aries: Bold, ambitious, high energy, competitive, passionate, courageous, honest, driven & generous Leo: Confident but often seeks attention and/or praise, bright, vivacious, natural leader, popular & protective Gemini: Curious, adaptable, intelligent, funny, chatty, outgoing, energetic & flexible Sagittarius: Optimistic, passionate, smart, philosophical, free spirited, adventurous, born to travel & doesn’t care for rules, constraints or regulations Taurus: Stubborn, good listeners, dependable, graceful, diligent, kind, caring & stubborn Btw If you don’t believe in star signs for religious, cultural or spiritual reasons that’s ok too :) #jamesjoyce #irishwriter #irishliterature #ulysses
Molly’s Soliloquy Performed by Caitriona Ni Threasaigh Reclining on a bed in the round room, Cáitriona Ní Threasaigh transports us to number seven Eccles Street as Molly Bloom reviews her day and, indeed, her life in this soliloquy from the final episode of Ulysses. Tickets are €5. Caitríona Ní Threasaigh is an actor who has also trained in clown. She performed Molly Bloom’s soliloquy at Áras an Uachtarán for the Irish president, Michael D. Higgins and his guests on Bloomsday (2013) and has performed it in the James Joyce Tower in Sandycove for Bloomsday ever since. Other roles include Mamó in Saol Ella, TG4 (2023), Mrs. Corcoran in The Dry, RTE (2023) Chantelle, in the film Deeper Thing (Nigeria 2018), Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (2015 Berlin, Germany) and Móna, Ros na Rún, Tg4 (2014). Ticket link and more info at bloomsdayfestival.ie 12 June, 2024 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm James Joyce Tower #bloomsdayfestival #bloomsday #jamesjoyce #jamesjoycetower #irishliterature In collaboration with James Joyce Centre Supported by Fáilte Ireland @tourism.culture.gaeltacht @dublincityoflit
Up next! Keeping my nose to the grindstone. #dubliners #jamesjoyce #classics #irish #irishliterature #bookstagram #bibliophile #readmore
Saoirse Ronan, “Brooklyn” director John Crowley and Domhnall at TIFF 2015 . #domhnallgleeson #brooklyn #saoirseronan #johncrowley #tiff2015 #toronto #torontofilmfestival #photoshoot #portraitphotography #gingermen #ireland #irishliterature #irishcinema #jimfarrell #longisland #colmtóibín
Una de las mejores lecturas del año. Un libro cortito, sencillo de lectura ágil. A veces, menos es más; en ocasiones “small things get big” (las pequeñas cosas se convierten en grandes por su trascendencia) y lo sencillo es profundo; esta es mi opinión sobre el libro que tengo entre manos y que me ha fascinado; solo os digo que he salido a comprar más libros para seguir descubriendo a la autora, Claire Keegan, y como por suerte me encuentro en Londres he podido adquirir unos cuantos. Estamos ante un protagonista masculino, marido y padre de cinco hijas, un hombre entrañable, humilde y agradecido al que se le plantea un dilema ético y moral que voy a dejar que descubras, ya que creo que es mejor entrar en esta historia sin más detalles. Lo que narra y denuncia la autora te quedará claro al terminar la lectura; un ratito lector que te llevará a reflexionar. Personalmente me ha llevado a recordar otro precioso libro “Las gratitudes” de Delphine de Vigan; quizás por la gratitud y empatía que demuestra el protagonista. ¿Habéis leído el libro? ¿También os ha venido a la mente Las gratitudes? ¿Conocías a la autora? Me los leeré todos pero ¿me recomiendas alguno en particular? Acabo de leerme en un ratito (son unas 50 páginas) So late in the day y me ha gustado mucho también. #literatura #clairekeegan #autorairlandesa #leeresvida #smallthingslikethese #books #booklover #narrativacontemporanea #libros #solateintheday #irishliterature #lecturas #reading #lecturasrecomendadas📚 #leer
Irish history—told slantwise through the adventures of a single soul burning ever so brightly. A Star Called Henry: A Novel, by Roddy Doyle. First US Edition, First Printing with Full Number Line. New York: Viking. Quarter-bound in Black Paper with Bronze Paper over Boards; Bronze Lettering on Spine; 343 Pages. A Very Good Book, with Straight Boards, a Tight Binding, and an Unblemished Interior Free of Writing and Bookplates. Minor Wear to the Heel of the Spine and Toning to the Top Edge of the Front Board. Unread. The Unclipped Dust Jacket is Very Good and Protected in Mylar. The first novel in Doyle’s The Last Roundup series follows Henry Smart, IRA volunteer and teenage fighter in the 1916 Easter Rising, through his Dublin childhood to fatherhood. This is great historical fiction, by turns mournful and humorous, and written with Doyle’s trademark verve and lightness. It’s right up there with The Commitments and the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. $12 Shipped DM to Claim #roddydoyle #astarcalledhenry #thecommitments #paddyclarkehahaha #irishliterature #firsteditionbooksforsale #firstedition #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #irishwriters #bookworm
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Το πιο δύσκολο βιβλίο που έχω διαβάσει ποτέ στα αγγλικά. Μου πήρε τέσσερις μήνες αλλά άξιζε τον κόπο. Την ιστορία αυτών των δυο αγοριών δεν θα την ξεχάσω ποτέ #jamieoniell #irishliterature #atswimtwoboys #lgbt
Thanks to @dartfroggco and @scribnerbooks for copies of Brooklyn and its newly released sequel, Long Island! Brooklyn Synopsis: Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, she cannot find a job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America—to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood “just like Ireland”—she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond Italian from a big family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets Field, and home to dinner in the two-room apartment he shares with his brothers and parents. He talks of having children who are Dodgers fans. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love with Tony, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future. Long Island Synopsis: Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades. One day, when Tony is at his job and Eilis is in her home office doing her accounting, an Irishman comes to the door asking for her by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. It is what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—in response to this stunning news that makes Tóibín’s novel so riveting. Have you ever been to New York?
📚 Irish Author Spotlight: Discover the powerful collection "All The Good Things You Deserve" by acclaimed Elaine Feeney. 📖 How do we love, trust, and create in the aftermath of trauma? Feeney explores these questions as images and memories circle and recur, navigating the nonlinear journey from pain towards a place of greater safety. 💔 Juxtaposing violence, hurt, and the tyranny of shame with love, beauty, and the transformative possibilities of art, Feeney's work is a profound exploration of the human experience. 🌟 Dive into this poignant collection today and experience Feeney's evocative storytelling. Online and In Store: https://theathlonebookshop.com/product/all-the-good-things-you-deserve #IrishAuthorSpotlight #ElaineFeeney #AllTheGoodThingsYouDeserve #Poetry #Novelist #IrishLiterature #BookRecommendations #BookLovers #Biography
i’m sure i’m going to love ‘small things like these’! while not much seems to be happening yet, the story is already probing these questions for our main character. and isn’t that what we all ponder? will life always be this routine—work, eat, sleep, overthink, repeat? i can’t wait to see what keegan will deliver as i continue, but i’m definitely going to love it. 💛 what’s your current read? #smallthingslikethese #smallthingslikethesebyclairekeegan #clairekeegan #shortstory #irishliterature #bookstagram #bookstagramph #bookstagramphilippines #booksbooksandmorebooks #readersofig #bookquotes
from breakfast on pluto ran out of iCloud storage so posting here . . . #breakfastonpluto #davidbowie #irishliterature #cillianmurphy #60s
I loved this book! • Short literary fiction that can cause emotional damage is always amazing to me! • This beautiful story in an Irish setting will pull at your heart. It’s is wonderful and heartbreaking at the same time and just makes you want to hug the little girl. • I highly recommend this one! I loved the audio too! • Have you read it? What did you think? • • • • • • • • • #irishliterature #shortliteraryfiction #clariekeegan #lifebehindthewords #faberandfaber #faberandfaberbooks #wednesdaymood #audiobookstagram #audiobooks #listentothisbook #readingcommunity #readersofinstagram #canadianbookstagrammers #yycbookstagram #bookinfluence #bookclubbing #lovedthisbook #fivestarread
Strolling Through Ulysses! by Robert Gogan is a 75-minute one-man show that tells the fun-filled story of Bloomsday. Written and performed by Robert Gogan, the play guides you through the curious events and quirky characters of Ulysses in a humorous, entertaining, and informative manner, with extracts from the novel which best illustrate the various aspects of Joyce’s writing – the comical, the descriptive and the complex – without compromising the integrity of the great book. Bawdy, irreverent, and great fun! The play is part of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)’s Outdoors programme on the eve of Bloomsday, the 16th of June 2024 at 3pm. The event is not ticketed so you are welcome to rock up, grab a seat, a snack, coffee or something stronger from Camerino Bakery at IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art’s onsite food truck and enjoy the show! For more information, please visit www.strollingthroughulysses.com. 16 June, 2024 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm Irish Museum of Modern Art #Bloomsdayfestival #irishliterature #irishtheatre #jamesjoyce In collaboration with @jamesjoycecentre Supported by Fáilte Ireland @tourism.culture.gaeltacht @dublincityoflit
What a writer - a few lines and I’m welling up- every line is needed - I can visualise everything - nothing flabby or flowery - no excess - just astounding literature #foster #clairekeegan #irishwriters #womenwriters #literature #irishliterature
“Prophet Song” by Paul Lynch is a mesmerizing journey through Ireland’s tumultuous past. Lynch’s lyrical prose captures the raw beauty and harsh realities of the landscape, while his characters leap off the page with depth and emotion. The story unfolds with gripping intensity, weaving together themes of faith, love, and redemption. A haunting masterpiece that stays with you long after the final page. #ProphetSong #PaulLynch #IrishLiterature #MustRead #BookReview 📚🌟
I have all kinds of mixed feelings about coming to the end of my sabbatical in Europe, but zero regrets about winding down with a journey to one the greatest literary cities in the world. Where else but Dublin can you find Samuel Beckett in the wax museum? The Book of Kells & Trinity campus were closed to visitors this week due to student protests, but I’ve got nothing but respect for student activism & got to see & do plenty regardless. Experienced so much of the famed warmth, the openness, the easy conversation that are the hallmarks of Irish culture. & I was inspired to attempt Ulysses again after last reading it when I was 19. It hasn’t gotten any easier. But Ireland hasn’t gotten any less wonderful. I waited too long to return & wont make that mistake again. #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #booklovers #booksbooksbooks #bookaddict #literaturelover #bookreader #bookworm #bookshelf #bibliophile #bookrecommendations #dublin #irishliterature #bookshop #bookshopsofinstagram #hodgesfiggis
Iris Murdoch - Henry and Cato (1976) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #boekstagram #igreads #readersofinstagram #irismurdoch #henryandcato #penguinbooks #literature #literatuur #philosophicalfiction #irishliterature #bookish #bookworm #bibliophile #read
This month's newsletter is out now on the Aosdána website, with all member's news and events in May Image 1: Isabel Nolan, Dead Talk Image 2: Eddie Kennedy, Journey Out, 2020, oil on canvas, 45cms x 35 cms) Image 3: Irish Tour by The State Choir ‘LATVIJA’ Image 4: ‘Kwaidan - Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn' at the Balinglen Museum, Mayo @nolanisabel @eddiekennedypainter #aosdana #Aosdánamember #Creatives @artscouncilireland #ArtsCouncilIrl #artistsireland #Irisharts #irishart #irishartist #irishartists #irishliterature #irishpoetry #irishcomposer #VisualArt #contemporaryart #installationart #sculptureart #exhibition #gallery
#nr18in2024 #clairekeegan #irishauthors #smallthingslikethese #irishliterature #reading #books #bookstagram #lesen heute in der Mittagspause dieses kleine Buch fertig gelesen. Ein kleines, aber sehr feines Buch und sicher nicht das letzte das ich von ihr gelesen habe! Passend dazu wurde diese Woche bekannt gegeben, dass Claire Keegan den diesjährigen Siegfried Lenz Preis erhält. Wohlverdient!
Our quarterly Berlin based wandering book club is back on 10th June at 18:30, this time at @odradek.buch book shop in Schoeneberg. The book will be Paul Lynch’s @paullynchauthor ‘Prophet Song’, winner of last year’s Booker Prize. In preparation, you can read the book in either original English or the German edition (DE Titel: “Das Lied des Propheten”) and conversation will be held in English. To sign up for a place ➡ link in bio! #wanderingbookclub #bookclub #irishliterature #contemporaryirishliterature #books #reading #bookerprize2023 #irishembassyberlin #paullynch
“Are we being fair to the legacy of Peig Sayers?” asks @penofryandennis in his latest article “Who was Peig Sayers?” "Máire Ní Dhálaigh, from the Office of Public Works’s Blasket Centre, gave what is likely the most accurate and fair description of Peig Sayers: 'Peig was the Netflix of her time.'” Peig Sayers was born in 1873 in the townland of Vicarstown, Dunquin, located in the Gaeltacht of West Kerry. Her father was a respected patron of the oral tradition and passed on many of his stories to Peig, from Irish folklore to local history. Despite having to leave school at the age of twelve to work as a servant, Peig Sayers became one of the most famous storytellers in the Irish language. The book Peig has often been associated with classrooms of bored teenagers, as well as excuses not to be interested in learning the Irish language. As Colm Ó Broin stated in The Irish Times, “It may be because Sayers just happens to share many of the characteristics that Irish people often came to associate with the language itself: she is poor, rural and old-fashioned. It’s rarely mentioned today, but for centuries many Irish people were ashamed of the language because it was spoken by the rural poor and not by the upper classes.” In 2021, however, TG4 broadcaster Sinéad Ní Uallacháin spearheaded a documentary on Peig Sayers that helped demonstrated that Peig Sayers much different than how she was portrayed in Peig. Instead, she had a strong sense of humor and was a born performer. Ní Uallacháin, among others, have taken up the effort to give a more accurate image of one of Ireland’s most important storytellers and the valuable role she played within Irish culture. It explores how Peig became synonymous with Irish, as well as Ireland’s complicated past with the language." Read Ryan’s full article, and many more, at LetsLearnIrish.com (links in bio). #LetsLearnIrish #IrishCommunity #Gaeilge #LearningIrish #IrishCourses #PeigSayers #IrishLiterature #LeavingCert #Irishbooks
I’m reading Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth. This short, fun, fast-paced novel is centuries ahead of its time in terms of its exploration of religion, class, gender politics, colonialism & narrative structure. No wonder Edgeworth was one of #JaneAusten’s favourite authors. #MissAustenInvestigates #jessicabull #Thehaplessmilliner #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #amreading #bookstagram #booklover #bookobsessed #bookoftheday #janeausten #murdermystery #cozymystery #cosymystery #crimefictiction #historicalmystery #historicalfiction #biographicalfiction #MissAustenInvestigates #booktok #janeaustentiktok #janeite #mariaedgeworth #castlerackrent #irishliterature #eighteenthcenturyliterature
@ikarosbooks 📍Στο MAXMAG αυτή την εβδομάδα, γράφω για το καλύτερο (ως τώρα) βιβλίο που διάβασα μέσα στο 2024. "Οι άνθρωποι παθαίνουν φριχτά πράγματα και μετά δεν μπορούν ούτε να μιλήσουν γι’ αυτά. Οι πραγματικές ιστορίες του κόσμου είναι χτισμένες στη σιωπή.” Στο τελευταίο του μυθιστόρημα με τίτλο “Τον καιρό του Θεού” το οποίο κυκλοφόρησε πρόσφατα από τις εκδόσεις Ίκαρος σε μετάφραση Άγγελου Αγγελίδη και Μαρίας Αγγελίδου, ο πέντε φορές υποψήφιος για το βραβείο Booker, Sebastian Barry, αφηγείται την σπαρακτική ιστορία ζωής του Τομ Κετλ, ενός χήρου αστυνομικού της Ιρλανδικής Γκάρντα, ο οποίος μετά την συνταξιοδότησή του, αποφασίζει να μετακομίσει σε ένα παράσπιτο ενός παλιού Βικτωριανού αρχοντικού, με θέα τη θάλασσα. Με το μυαλό του να καλπάζει “σαν άγριο άλογο” και τα πρώτα συμπτώματα της άνοιας να κάνουν την εμφάνισή τους, ο Τομ ζει απομονωμένος με μόνη συντροφιά του τις αναμνήσεις, συμβιβασμένος πια με το “σχέδιο του Θεού” που τον θέλει να ζει “ελεύθερος ευτυχίας”. 📍Βρείτε ολόκληρο το άρθρο μου στον σύνδεσμο του περιοδικού που υπάρχει στο προφίλ μου. 🖇️Link in bio 🤍
I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles. How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it goes through sickness, health, motherhood? And how do you tell that story when you are not just a woman but a woman in Ireland? In these powerful and daring essays, Sinead Gleeson does that very thing. In doing so she delves into a range of subjects: art, illness, ghosts, grief, and our very ways of seeing. In writing that is in tradition of some of our finest writers such as Olivia Laing, Maggie O'Farrell, and Maggie Nelson, and yet still in her own spirited, warm voice, Gleeson takes us on a journey that is both personal and yet universal in its resonance. For more books, visit our store at Crossroads Mall Karen, next to Morgan Forex Bureau Shop B6. Shop via our website on www.Halfpricedbooks.co.ke (link on bio) You can talk to us via 0702680255 Reserve online via our till no 9896195. Deliveries Nationwide. ksh 800 #constellations #sineadgleeson #memoir #irishliterature
...Back in the rehearsal room tonight as we prepare Dorian for his Dublin debut! Catch 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' this June at the @smockalleytheatre Main Space... Tickets now on sale at the link in our bio or on the Smock Alley website! #doriangray #thepictureofdoriangray #pictureofdoriangray #apictureofdoriangray #art #irishliterature #whatsonindublin #dublintheatre #theatreireland #wilde #oscarwilde #wildequotes #literatureireland #drama #theatrelife #theatrelife🎭 #literaturedublin #dublin #dublinsummer #irishwriters #dublinwriters #theatrerehearsals #irishwriting #smockalley #smockalleytheatre
Book 28 of 2024 was The History of Rain. I read Niall Williams's This Is Happiness awhile ago, and it made such an impression on me because it was just a brilliant book. I just finished listening to The History of Rain, and although it wasn't as good as This Is Happiness, I really enjoyed it. A story of family, love and literature. A real joy! #audiobook #irishliterature
With the deadline for submissions now passed, it's time to get down to some serious work!📺 We say "work" but seeing the fantastic quality of films so far- its really not hard work! Watching some wonderfully diverse & eclectic films from all over the world and Ireland. The final selections won't be an easy task!🙃 🎞 Save the dates for Bloomsday Film Festival June 12th -16th 2024 #Bloomsday2024 #Bloomsday #Jamesjoyce #Ulysses #irishfilm #Irishliterature #poetryfilm #poetrycommunity #filmfestival
@charliebyrnesbookshop has all the greats in stock. Alllll xx The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain is one of the best things I will ever read. Translated from Irish for the first time in 2015, more(?) than 50 years after it was initially written and published in the Irish language. Lotsa “the greats” of modern Irish literature, poetry, and letters have called it - and had before it was translated- the greatest book ever written in the Irish language. Think on that. Heavy. I guess it’s biblical: a gossip novel all set post death in the ground with the priest and the neighbours and the other neighbours and lotsss of family. Lotsa drama. So great. Somehow fun. Certainly funny af. Rereading now n grateful it’s now available In a cheaper paperback , too! #irishliterature #irishnovels #asgaeilge