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Maggie Armstrong is a former journalist turned author who lives in Dublin with her two children. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly and Banshee.

Writer talks about her new poetry collection, Galway roots and upcoming projects

28 April 2024 By Valerie Ryan valerie@TheCork.ie Download brochure here Elizabeth Fort is set to host a free celebration of books, writing, reading, poetry, creativity and spoken word as part of the 25th annual Cork World Book Festival on Sunday 28th of April from 1-6.15pm.  Taking place in Cork’s unique star-shaped fort located on Barracks…

A dozen short stories are linked by a protagonist called Margaret, who is hapless, often bewildered, at times mean. You will love her

Festival director Manuela Moser introduces this year’s programme

Novelist and playwright receive Windham Campbell Prize to support their work

The Irish writer says living abroad was an opportunity to see Ireland from a different angle

Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen have blazed a trail in Irish publishing produced some of the country’s most groundbreaking work, and ruffled more than a few feathers

Villanova University's College for Liberal Arts and Sciences will welcome scholars from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast for a week of workshops and community events this March.

Mike McCormack seems to be tuned in to a different cosmic frequency than the rest of us. Whilst almost all of his work begins in a small, sleepy village in County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland, he has a unique way of making familiar landscapes and usually quiet lives extraordinary and surreal.