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Paul Voiland makes a great point stating that forests can be a critical means of storing carbon to offset the growing damage from climate change: “Forestland stores more carbon than grazing land” (Recorder, June 1). Yes, if we utilized our extensive...

Climate change, masculinity, class, menopause, motherhood and the power of translation are just some of the many topics under discussion at this month’s Belfast Book Festival.

Ballybunion might be just out the road but it was Munster’s westernmost seaside resort of Tramore that stole the show at the opening night of Writers’ Week in Listowel as Aingeala Flannery was announced as the winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2023 for The Amusements.

The first curator of the Kerry town’s literary festival, which takes place this week, sets out his stall

Carhartt ‘WIP Magazine’ Launches Issue 8: With cover star Fousheé.

The writer on his ‘final’ Frank Bascombe novel, why he wants to write ‘useful’ books, and his fantasy president

Lay Catholics and women religious will be voting members of the October 2023 Synod of Bishops, and while synodal officials dismiss talk of a ‘revolution,’ som...

Michael Magee's debut novel, 'Close to Home,' follows the repercussions of a punch at a pub. For Magee, the goal is nothing less than to rewrite Belfast fiction

The Irish writer’s follow up to Exciting Times is amusing and sympathetic about romantic fickleness – if not as spiky as her hit debut

Though the voice is decidedly Irish, the message of Michael Magee’s dead-on debut novel is universal. At its core, “Close to Home” is about finding a way to…