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Saoirse Ronan reads Shorn for Spoken Stories Independence Updated / Tuesday, 2 Feb 2021 14:21 Spoken Stories Independence collection on RTÉ Radio 1, now available as a podcast here.  Before writing her story, Rainsford asked herself ‘what does independence mean explicitly for women, especially in relation to war and violence and the roles their bodies play, that are often obscured after the facts. Shorn is a story about forced hair cutting, a rampant practice that was carried out by both sides during the (Irish) Civil War.’ Sue Rainsford All the writers contributing to the series ...

Danielle McLaughlin* Opinion: In a ceremony that was at once ordinary and extraordinary, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr was inaugurated as the 46th American president on 20 January just before noon Eastern Standard Time. Joe Biden is sworn in watched by his wife, Jill, who is holding their family Bible. Photo: AFP As Ronald Reagan had noted in his own inaugural address 40 years earlier, "in the eyes of many in the world, this every-four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle." Given that the US Capitol Building had been physically invaded by right-wing insurrectionists ...

This slow-building debut novel from the Irish short-story writer investigates intimacy and estrangement Danielle McLaughlin ... half-bitter, half-spirited humour. Photograph: Claire O'Rorke Danielle McLaughlin ... half-bitter, half-spirited humour. Photograph: Claire O'Rorke Thu 21 Jan 2021 04.00 EST “She used to think that if she lost in love, it would be – on a scale of one to ten – to an eight or a nine. Cora Wilson she would put as a four.” Thus Nessa reflects on her husband’s adultery with the bothersomely dowdy mother of their daughter’s best friend. This ...

Danielle McLaughlin, a former lawyer, began writing a little more than ten years ago, at the age of 40. Since then the Irish writer has made quite a splash, earning praise from Sebastian Barry and

I like a literary wunderkind as much as the next person, but there’s a lot to be said for being a later starter in the fiction game: look at Penelope Fitzgerald, who was 60 when she published her