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Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker prize for dystopian novel Prophet Song. But he wasn’t the only writer from Ireland nominated.
Both Paul Murray (The Bee Sting) and Paul Lynch (Prophet Song) are part of what Sebastian Barry, as Irish Laureate for Fiction, calls a “golden age” of Irish writing.
Irish writers have benefited from structural factors in recent years. However, ask them in person and Irish writers are more likely to highlight impediments to producing work.
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The literary journal scene is stronger than 10 or 20 years ago, unrecognisable from 25 years ago
The second edition of literary journal ‘Howl’ has been launched. COLETTE SHERIDAN went along to find out more about the publication featuring works ...