# Writing
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2023
Writing
'That is an urban myth': John Boyne claims he never had a spat with Auschwitz memorial museum
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Mar 11th 2023, 1:19 PM
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writing our history
Declan O'Rourke: 'I think we all have these ghosts and figures lurking in the past'
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Nov 10th 2021, 8:00 PM
Voices
Opinion: 'In my everyday reality, self-love doesn’t protect me from racial harassment, sexism and ableism'
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Nov 4th 2021, 7:00 AM
Short stories
The winner of the RTÉ Short Story Competition 2021 has been announced
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Sep 27th 2021, 7:51 PM
Voices
Extract: Roisin Kiberd on how Facebook helped change the internet - and our lives
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Mar 10th 2021, 7:00 PM
Voices
'It reinforced my sense of belonging': One Dublin One Book author Rónán Hession on his life in reading
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Mar 9th 2021, 7:30 PM
comfort reads
The books that brought writers like Roddy Doyle and Tana French comfort in 2020
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Dec 30th 2020, 6:30 PM
new irish writing
'It's so astounding that a woman can disappear to that extent': Rediscovering the author of Ireland's greatest love poem
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Sep 20th 2020, 8:15 AM
Voices
Opinion: Want to use this time to write a short story? Here are some top tips
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Aug 8th 2020, 7:00 PM
strange hotel
Eimear McBride: 'The amount of 'she's not a genius, she's a very naughty girl' I've got is just ridiculous'
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Mar 8th 2020, 11:00 AM
dita kraus
'I have a number on my arm from Auschwitz - and people say it never happened?'
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Feb 23rd 2020, 10:00 PM
Sports writing
Episode 11 of the Behind The Lines podcast - featuring Kieran Shannon - is out now
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Dec 4th 2019, 5:27 PM
Voices
Dorothy Macardle: The rediscovery of an unlikely rebel and overlooked novelist
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Nov 16th 2019, 11:00 AM
Voices
'Rock and roll had come to town': The fascinating tale of JP Donleavy and his final posthumous novel
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Nov 7th 2019, 8:00 PM
Voices
A Sunday Miscellany essay by Lisa McInerney: 'Setting the scene'
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Oct 27th 2019, 9:30 AM
emily ruskovich
Living in a remote house on a mountain inspired this €100k-winning novel about a murder
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Jun 22nd 2019, 9:00 PM
Treatment
'It all started with my balls' - Colm Tóibín's moving essay about cancer is a must-read
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Apr 12th 2019, 8:44 AM
Voices
Opinion: 'Why do we like reading about crime so much in Ireland? Because it offers escapism'
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Oct 30th 2018, 9:00 PM
the negotiators
Gerry Adams is publishing a cookbook and it'll be out for Christmas
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Aug 7th 2018, 6:33 PM
turn the page
Here were our favourite books of 2017 - what about you?
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Dec 29th 2017, 6:00 PM
lit festival
These Waterford teens have set up Ireland's first youth-run literary festival
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Nov 5th 2017, 8:00 PM
bgeibas
Ruth Fitzmaurice: 'The writing just came out - it was raw inside me'
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Nov 4th 2017, 9:45 AM
Voices
Stay-at-home mom turned vampire author Clare Daly: 'How I became a writer'
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Oct 30th 2017, 7:30 PM
Kazuo Ishiguro
British writer of The Remains of the Day wins Nobel Prize for Literature
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Oct 5th 2017, 12:29 PM
Ross O'Carroll Kelly
'I spend my working life sitting behind a desk thinking in the voice of a south Dublin idiot'
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Oct 1st 2017, 10:00 AM
Writing
'My teacher told me not to get my hopes of an A in the Junior Cert up - now I'm on the syllabus'
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Aug 19th 2017, 8:00 AM
stuart neville
This Northern Irish author's new novel could be the next Gone Girl
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Jul 30th 2017, 8:15 AM
hennessy awards
An award-winning story before bedtime: I Could Have Been a Dancer
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Apr 2nd 2017, 9:30 PM
a dangerous crossing
'Parents protect children - but they deserve to know and understand what's happening in the world'
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Mar 5th 2017, 10:00 PM
page turner
Irish author Sebastian Barry scoops major Book of the Year prize
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Jan 31st 2017, 10:32 PM
Voices
Kevin Barry: 'Sometimes writing no longer seems like the thing I do, it seems like the thing I am'
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Dec 25th 2016, 8:15 PM
Well read
Munster memories, the physicality of modern rugby, the national anthem and all the week's best sportswriting
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Dec 11th 2016, 8:30 AM