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In Michael Magee’s visceral debut novel, “Close to Home,” a young man commits an assault that jeopardizes his plans for the future.

Q&A: The author on #MeToo, good advice from Dickens, and the inspiration behind Service, her new novel of power and sexual politics in the hospitality industry

Hotly tipped Northern author Michael Magee discusses his debut novel Close To Home, a gripping exploration of youth culture in recession-blasted Belfast, whi...

An inaugural charity run will take place this summer in honour of Old Man Belfield, a fixture on the UCD campus for 30 years.

It so happens Magee’s much-hyped novel—see the glowing write-ups not just in The Guardian but also Kirkus Reviews and Publisher’s Weekly—is coming out just in time for the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreements, which brought to the North a fragile calm, if not promised prosperity.

<strong>Letter: </strong>Working-class lives are unlikely to be properly represented in fiction if the publishing industry is run by middle-class graduates, says <strong>Nick Moss</strong>

Ulster Tatler is a lifestyle and society magazine based in Northern Ireland which was founded in 1966. Established in 1966, the Ulster Tatler is now Northern Irelands longest established and most widely read monthly. It has coverage of events in the Northern Ireland social calendar as well as local fashions. The tone of the magazine is very much to look of the positive side to life in Northern Ireland.

With a fiercely competitive rental market and huge price hikes, finding a secure place to live is increasingly difficult. Four writers share their stories of floor-to-ceiling mould, exploitative landlords, and trying to work in cramped house shares

Theres nothing like a dysfunctional family to keep me reading, and this is one of the richest and the best.

This taut debut about a working-class young man wrestling with masculinity and lack of opportunity feels like a genuinely necessary book