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Well, I am moved beyond words, but I’ll try to write them down.  Never in my wildest dreams did I think this club would grow to be what it is today, with this level of read engagement. This is all I could ever hope for as a columnist. We started out 8 years ago with two members — including me. Today, we’re nearly 100 strong, representing every town in SouthCoast, along with Rhode Island, California, South Carolina, and Florida. This is the 10th (!) and final installment of Meeting our 2020 Century Club members, and getting their wonderful recommendations. This means that if you emailed...

There is a moment in Naoise Dolan’s tour-de-force debut novel  Exciting Times when Ava, the book’s main character, writes a long and winding message to Julian, her sort-of-boyfriend, about Edith, her sort-of-girlfriend. In the message, Ava says she has been thinking about Edith “more and more”. She tells Julian that she has never had sex with another woman, but she “kissed a few in college”. Then, Ava writes that she sometimes loves Julian, but other times, she wants a plane to fly into a building and for him to be either in the building or on the plane.

Look east A season of Japanese film is available to rent from the IFI from March 5, including classics of the genre as well as newer movies. Japanese Story includes The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985), the cult musical about two wannabe popstars, and 2009’s Fish Story, a science-fiction tale of an obscure rock band’s single making a strange journey through time. See ifihome.ie Focal suas International Irish language festival Seachtain na Gaeilge le Energia is on from March 1-17, and this year’s ambassadors are musician Imelda May, Limerick hurling captain Declan Hannon and...

Megan Nolan is weighing up how she feels about her relatives back home in Waterford, Ireland, reading her first novel, Acts of Desperation.

Full programme for 15th Ennis Book Club Festival launched THE full programme for the 15th Ennis Book Club Festival was announced this week. This year’s festival will be a hybrid of online events in March with live events taking place in April and September. As always Ennis Book Club Festival 2021 will offer opportunities to engage with favourite authors and features an additional programme of events for younger readers. While the festival cannot welcome book lovers to Ennis this March as ever, it will provide plenty of events to stimulate discussion and inspire reading, from the comfort of ...