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The Grass Ceiling by Eimear Ryan - IrishCentral Book Club

Join the IrishCentral Book Club this February as we read “The Grass Ceiling” by Irish writer Eimear Ryan.

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'The Grass Ceiling' heralds a new wave of GAA memoir

In Eimear Ryan’s stunning new book, themes of family, body consciousness, failure and fulfilment are all teased out.

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Listowel Writers' Week: Paul Muldoon, Richard Ford and more to feature on this year's programme

The full programme for the renowned literary festival is set to be unveiled in the coming days.

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At the Library | Cranbrook

At the Library

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In the Instagram age, you actually can judge a book by its cover

In the Instagram age, you actually can judge a book by its cover
Ellie Violet Bramley
Last week’s big literary event was not the publication of a new book, the million-pound signing of a celebrity author or the announcement of a prestigious prize. Instead, it was the unveiling of a cover: the jacket of the forthcoming novel by Sally Rooney.
“It’s quite rare that a publisher will reveal a jacket and make such a big deal about who designed it, or even mention who designed it,” says Danny Arter, creative editor of
The Bookseller, a magazine reporting on the publishing industry. But in recent years, book cover design has taken on a higher profile, and we may be seeing a new heyday for book design.

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In the Instagram age, you actually can judge a book by its cover

In the Instagram age, you actually can judge a book by its cover
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Celebrating the Short Story

Celebrating the Short Story
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First of all: Irish writers on their debut novels coming out in 2021

First of all: Irish writers on their debut novels coming out in 2021
From Louise Nealon’s coming-of-age tale to Una Mannion’s American nightmare
Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 06:00
Niamh Donnelly
Louise Nealon lives on a dairy farm in Kildare with her family.
Snowflake (Manilla, May) is a coming-of-age tale about a young woman who struggles to cope when she moves away from her family farm and steps into life in Trinity College Dublin.
What was the hardest thing about writing Snowflake?
The thought of sitting down to write is not very appealing to me, which is unfortunate, as well as embarrassing, for a person who calls herself a writer. When I was working on Snowflake, I had to constantly confront my own insecurities. Every day without fail, my inner critic would remind me that I couldn’t string a sentence together. The moment I finished the last sentence of that first draft was miraculous. It was the best moment of my life.

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Books to look out for in 2021

Books to look out for in 2021
Irish fiction
New work that has been a long time coming generates a particular shiver of anticipation.
Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Her publisher says: “An exquisite wintery parable, Claire Keegan’s long-awaited return tells the story of a simple act of courage and tenderness, in the face of conformity, fear and judgment.”
Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Photograph: Alan Betson

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Poetic champions and fiction greats

Art imitates life and the novels of 2021 confirm just how true this is. Writers, like everyone else, found themselves confined this year and the result is the recurring leitmotif of family, pervading almost every fiction genre from crime to coming-of-age novels, from historical fiction right through to dystopia. Here are some examples from the leading titles of the new year.
January
Billy O'Callaghan's Life Sentences (Jonathan Cape) is a family saga sweeping from famine Ireland right through to the 1980s. The Push (Penguin) by Ashley Audrain is a psychological thriller about a mother who believes her daughter to be bad, with shades ofWe Need to Talk About Kevin.

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