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Mexican author Valeria Luiselli has won the 2021 Dublin Literary Award for Lost Children Archive. The novel, the first the author has written in English, follows an artist couple on a road trip from New York to Arizona with their two children in the heat of summer. As their parents’ relationship frays, the children try to make sense of both their family’s crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of children trying to cross the border into the US but gett...

Why are there no romance novels set in Belfast? Claire McGowan on the potential for genres other than crime to take off in Northern Ireland Tue, May 11, 2021, 05:54 Claire McGowan Claire McGowan: “I’m part of the problem, I’ll admit, as it wouldn’t have occurred to me to set a women’s fiction novel in Belfast, had my editor not suggested it.” Photograph: Jamie Dre...

‘I’m proud to be from Northern Ireland’: reflections on a contested centenary Ben Quinn, Rory Carroll and Lisa OCarroll The centenary of the founding of Northern Ireland is to be marked on Monday – albeit overshadowed by political turmoil and the Covid-19 pandemic. Eight figures from Northern Ireland reflect on a contested centenary and the nuances of identity. ‘I would identify as Irish’ Jenn Murray, 35, is an actor from Belfast who has appeared in Brooklyn, Fantas...

Arts Q&A: The Arts Councils Joanne Wright on Ryan Vail, Joshua Burnside and Whiplash memories Jenny Lee puts performers and artists on the spot about what really matters to them. This week, musician and music development officer Joanne Wright Joanne Wright, music development officer at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland 28 April, 2021 01:00 Joanne is the founder of Safe in Sound (Safeinsound.org) 1. When did you think about a career in the arts and what were y...

Last modified on Fri 16 Apr 2021 06.44 EDT Our latest Guardian documentary, Space To Be, follows the Windsor Women’s Centre as it continues on its 30-year quest to keep its doors open. Located in the heart of the Village area of South Belfast, the centre provides an oasis for some of the most vulnerable people in the local community through a carefully nurtured network of women. After receiving funding from the EU as part of the Good Friday agreement, many women’s centres sprung up ac...

Even today, nothing in our Constitution guarantees equal rights regardless of your sex. Now the fight to add the ERA to the Constitution is taking on a new momentum, building off the roots of the 1970s progressive womens movement that took place right here in Houston. In the early 1970s the womens movement seemed unstoppable. "Energy was so high? It was just amazing. Just absolutely amazing. We felt we could conquer the world," said Dr. Nancy Joyner, former vice president of the American Associ...

Inside Politics Politics, culture and the centenary of Northern Ireland Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly. 53:48 Following last weeks podcast with professor Brendan O’Leary on the creation of Northern Ireland, today’s show looks at this year’s centenary in respect of the politics and culture of the region. Hugh is joined by unionist political commentator Sarah Creighton to discuss the future of Nort...

Tyll, Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin (Quercus) The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf) Inland, Téa Obreht (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) We Cast a Shadow, Maurice Carlos Ruffin (One World) The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) The Bird King, G. Willow Wilson (Grove Press) A total of 49 titles were nominated by libraries from 30 countries. The shortlist will be announced March 25, 2021, and the winner May 20. The shortlist and winner are chosen by the judging panel, consis...

Four Irish authors on longlist for prestigious €100k Dublin Literary Award Previous winners include Anna Burns for Milkman, and Mike McCormack for Solar Bones. By Aoife Barry Thursday 4 Feb 2021, 12:52 PM Feb 4th 2021, 12:52 PM 11,608 Views 2 Comments THE LONGLIST FOR this year’s Dublin Literary Award have been announced – and four Iris...