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Debbie can go a whole day in the city without talking to anyone, until she bumps into Xanthe again. As read by Louisa Harland. Show more A magical literary debut about growing up and leaving home, only to find that you've taken it with you. As read by Louisa Harland (Derry Girls). Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams, which she believes to be prophecies.

Fri, 07 May, 2021 - 08:17 My Weekend: In my dreams I sneak out and meet pals for quiet pints and put the week to bed Writer and editor Danny Denton, who lives in Passage, is involved in an upcoming project called ‘A City & A Garden’ Literary editor Danny Denton (The Stinging Fly) launching A CITY + A GARDEN - a state-of-the-art sonic experience, combining story and song with the world around us. It's part of the Safe Harbour Festival. Picture: Clare Keogh Tell us a little bit about yourself: I’m a dad, a husband, a writer and an editor. My first novel was The Earlie King a...

'); 'The tension between pragmatism and aesthetics on the pitch is always happening and I find it really interesting' Writer, artist, and one-time Longford Town footballer Adrian Duncan is this week’s guest on Behind the Lines. Gavin Cooney By Gavin Cooney Friday 16 Apr 2021, 5:03 PM 1 hour ago 988 Views 0 Comments Adrian Duncan. Adrian Duncan. THERE IS ART to be found in everything: even a midweek League Cup game between Lon...

At the same time,  Line of Duty is deeply, terrifyingly paranoid. Paranoia is woven into the fabric of every episode. When I watch it my mind moves like a conspiracy theorist’s. ‘Jackie Laverty,’ I whisper at the screen. In a recent article by James Meek in the  London Review of Books, he refers to a survey that found only half of English adults are free of ‘conspiracy thinking.’ How could anyone be free when  Line of Duty is on the BBC? In the world of AC-12, you can’t trust anybody. Nothing is insignificant. It’s the perfect show for right now because it repeatedly te...

A Wexford poet is looking forward with excitement to the launch next week of her first collection of poetry called 'Redress', published by Revival Press in Limerick. Anne McCarry, a native of Kilmore living in Wexford town, writes under the pen name A.M. Cousins. She embarked on a MA in Creative Writing course in UCD with the original ambition of writing the perfect short story but was seduced by poetry and has been under its spell ever since. Anne joined the writing course as a mature student after the birth of her first grandchild in 2013 and she won the prestigious FISH poetry prize in 201...