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Love, loneliness and landscape combine in Dublin writer Sinéad Gleeson’s long anticipated fiction debut Hagstone. She chats to Jenny Lee about her writing journey, the strong female characters she created and her fascination with islands
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Twelve years ago the critic, memoirist and broadcaster began crafting what would become her debut novel. It’s been a tough process but she has embraced the writing life
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Paula Meehan, Sebastian Barry, Colm Tóibín and others share fond memories of the writer
Maeve Brennan was much better known in New York than she was at home — having made a name for herself as a copy editor at ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ magazine and later as a staff writer at ‘The New Yorker’.
Sinéad Gleeson’s exertions in the service of Irish literature are Stakhanovite: editing four Irish short-story collections in a decade is a singular achievement, unlikely to be surpassed. For this