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With a fiercely competitive rental market and huge price hikes, finding a secure place to live is increasingly difficult. Four writers share their stories of floor-to-ceiling mould, exploitative landlords, and trying to work in cramped house shares
Before Sally Rooney was the author of bestselling books, and well before those books became buzzy television series, she was an undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin with a growing pile of unpublished poems and no contacts in the writing world. Her first break came in 2010, when The Stinging Fly, a small Irish literary magazine, agreed to publish her work.
He may not be a candidate yet, but President Biden delivered a message of optimism to the people of Ireland. It was a possible preview of a campaign to come.
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Running since 1983, the list spotlights 20 novelists under the age of 40 every 10 years
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The Stinging Fly, which is celebrating 25 years, has helped launch the careers of many of Ireland’s most promising writers