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Shortlists for Dalkey Literary Awards 2021 revealed €30,000 prize fund for Irish writers to be awarded at Dalkey Book Festival in June about 4 hours ago Previous Image   The vitality and variety of contemporary Irish writing is reflected in two remarkably strong shortlists for this year’s Dalkey Literary Awards. The field for the €20,000 Novel of the Year award includes Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, and Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan, winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year...

My 4-year-old daughter is into princesses. Really into princesses. I have given the Princess Industrial Complex more money than I’d like to admit to keep those episodes of “Elena of

Any article that calls Prince Andrews a “sweatless creep” is worth reading. We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. With the British monarchy currently under the spotlight due to the massively publicised shenanigans of Meghan and Harry’s tell-all interview on Oprah, we absolutely must stop and listen to what the Irish think of it all. The Irish, famously, have some thoughts on the British royals. And this column in the Irish Times by writer Patrick Freyne has quickly established itself as the definitive ...

March 9, 2021 My 4-year-old daughter is into princesses. Really into princesses. I have given the Princess Industrial Complex more money than I’d like to admit to keep those episodes of “Elena of Avalor” coming. It isn’t as bad as I feared it would be. These are not the helpless princesses of my youth, yearning for their prince to come. These princesses are feminists. They fight, do magic and ride flying creatures, all while wearing sparkly ball gowns. They are also a racially diverse bunch. Elena is Disney’s first Latina princess. Her friends include a Black princess, a Jewish pri...

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