The Dublin Theatre Festival is in its last week, with lots to do around the city. The Stanley Kubrick Season is at the Lighthouse has a few classics this week.There’s also the […]
Things To Do In Dublin (6-10-14 – 12-10-14)
Jim Henson: The Biography – Brian Jay Jones – Review
Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones – Review by Mary Donnelly For those of us who grew up in the seventies and eighties, with access to a television, Sunday nights […]
Jupiter’s Legacy – Millar & Quietly – Review
Jupiter’s Legacy #1-3 Review A new title from Image, and one with a lot of promise. It is quite a familiar premise, a world of super heroes where one man stands above […]
Sweet Tooth – Ian McEwan – Book Review
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan – Reveiew by Helen O’Leary This is an upper middle class tale set in 1970’s England. Serena Frome, the daughter of a bishop is recruited into MI5 […]
Fables – Cubs in Toyland – Review
Fables – Volume 18 – Review If you’re reading this review, it’s safe to say you know what Fables is about. If not, it’s the characters from fairytales living in New York […]
Things to Do in Dublin (22-09-14 – 28-09-14)
The Tiger has gone into hibernation with the end of the Tiger Dublin Fringe so we have a few weeks of calm and reflection, right? Nope, it’s going to be bedlam out […]
‘Roy Jenkins – A Well-Rounded Life’ – John Campbell – Book Review
‘Roy Jenkins – A Well-Rounded Life’ – John Campbell – Jonathan Cape – £30 Roy Jenkins is a titan of British politics that most under 40s in Ireland will never heard of. […]
Things to do in Dublin (15-09-14 – 21-09-14)
It’s the last week of the Tiger Dublin Fringe! If you haven’t gone to anything, you’ve been missing out! Culture Night is also this Friday the 19th of Sept. There’s events all […]
Sandman – Overture – #1-3 – Review
We were greeted some months ago with the news that Neil Gaiman would return to the place where he made his name. The original Sandman series finished in 1996 with number 75, […]
The Unexpected Professor – John Carey – Book Review
‘The Unexpected Professor – An Oxford Life in Books’ – Review by Dan O’Neill John Carey is one of the pre-eminent communicators of literature of the last 30 years. His memoirs show […]
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler – Review
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler – Review by Helen O’Leary Everyone thinks his or her own family a little strange but it’s hard to rival the peculiar […]
Dublin Theatre Festival Preview – A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
One of the bravest and therefore most interesting productions at this years DTF is surely Corn Exchange’s A Girl is a Half-formed Thing. Eimear McBride’s novel has won high praise since it […]
Mrs. Hemingway – Naomi Wood – Review
This is the story of four women, all very different in nature, all connected by one man. The book is broken into four parts with each telling the tale of one of […]
The Child – Sebastian Fitzek – Audible Review
The Child: An Audible Drama – Review by Paul McD Author: Sebastian Fitzek Narrator(s): Rupert Penry-Jones, Jack Boulter, Emilia Fox, Stephen Marcus, Robert Glenister, Andy Serkis A ten year old child thinks […]
Things to do in Dublin (28-07-14 – 3-08-14)
Shouldn’t you be outside? It’s a sin to be in on a day like today! Ok, it’s too sunny to do most things, but if you get bored sitting in the sun, […]
Neil Gaiman – The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Review
Neil Gaiman, ‘ The Ocean at the End of the Lane’ – Review by Stuart Cross – ISBN 978-1-4722-0034-1 Neil Gaiman is on the Internet’s high score list. He is up there […]
The Sound of Things Falling – Juan Gabriel Vasquez
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez – Review by Helen O’Leary In his acceptance speech for the 2014 IMPAC literary award Juan Gabriel Vasquez spoke of his motivation in […]
The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith – Audible Review
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith The Silkworm is the latest in the private detective series by J. K. Rowling published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The book seems all set to become […]
Here are the Young Men – Rob Doyle – Book Review
‘Here are the Young Men’ – Rob Doyle – Lilliput – Review by Dan O’Neill Rob Doyle has good form as a writer; anyone with work published in The Dublin Review and […]
The Interview – Patricia O’Reilly
“The Interview” by Patricia O’Reilly. – Article by Helen O’Leary Patricia O’Reilly has a longstanding interest in Eileen Gray and this is her second book about the Irish designer and architect. The […]
Stray Bullets Killers – David Lapham – Review
Stray Bullets Killers – Issues 1-4 – Written and Drawn by David Lapham I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for Stray Bullets ever since I found issue one in a […]
Things to do in Dublin (30-06-14 – 6-07-14)
The group stages of the World Cup are over, so may people no have gaps in their evening schedules, and are returning into the light! There’s a mass of gigs and events […]
Tread Softly – Sligo Festival – 27th July to 8th August
Why not visit Yeats Country! Tread Softly is a celebration of the full of the Yeats Family and takes place between the 27th of July and the 8th of August. There’s an […]
The Thing About December – Donal Ryan – Book Review
The thing about December is Donal Ryan’s first novel, even though it was the second to be published. As he says himself, he sent it to over 47 publishers who all rejected […]
Saga – Brian K Vaughan & Fiona Staples – Review
Saga – Brian K Vaughan & Fiona Staples – #1-18 Review Two worlds at war, the planet of Landfall and its moon Wreath. Two different cultures, one based around science and the […]
Things to do in Dublin (23-06-14 – 29-06-14)
There really is no escaping the World Cup, despite our near neighbours awful efforts! For those of you who are studiously trying to ignore it, there’s another good week in store. There’s […]
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2014 – Preview
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2014 – Preview In the glorious sunshine of the contemporary 18th century garden of no.63 Merrion Square, Eugene Downes, the new festival director launched the programme for this year’s […]
Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas 2014 – Sunday Review – 15-06-14
It was an early start to Sunday with Soundings’ Holy Trinity in the Chapel. This event was a collection of individuals telling stories under various topics and performing. Giles Duley, Lisa Dwan, […]
Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas 2014 – Saturday 14-06-14 – Review
The return to Borris, and while the sun was not splitting the stones like last year, it was warm enough that the lawn was filled with people sitting around and relaxing. As […]
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