The New World – Andrew Motion – Book Review – By Helen O’Leary Andrew Motion is a former British Poet Laureate so it is with interest I read his foray into fiction […]
The New World – Andrew Motion – Book Review
Dublin Book Festival Preview – 13th – 16th Nov
The Dublin Book Festival starts in just two days time, and we thought we’d delve into the programme to give you some of our highlights. First up, we have old friend Donal […]
Things To Do In Dublin (10-11-14 – 16-11-14)
Welcome back people. Another week dawns and so to does a variety of odd ball events around the city. Science Week 2014 – 9th – 16th November continues with events far and […]
70×70 – Unlicensed Preaching – Iain Sinclair – Book Review
Iain Sinclair – 70×70 – Unlicensed Preaching: A Life Unpacked in 70 Films Reviewed by David Turpin Labelled by its author as a “novel of delicious fragments” and a “cubist self-portrait assembled […]
The Last Foundling – Tom H. Mackenzie – Book Review
The Last Foundling – A little boy left behind, The mother who wanted him back – Tom H. Mackenzie – Review by Frances Winston Published by Pan and MacMillan This book could […]
The Axeman’s Jazz – Ray Celestin – Book Review
The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin – Review by Frances Winston Published by Panmacmillan The Axeman was a real serial killer who murdered six people in New Orleans between 1918 and 1919 […]
ISLA Literary Festival – Oct 17th – 19th
Possibly the best free literary festival of the year, and it’s only two days away! With John Banville, Donal Ryan (above), Claire Keegan, Hugo Hamilton and John Kelly there is some great […]
Polina – Bastien Vivès – Book Review
Polina by Bastien Vivès is publised by Random House. Polina was written and illustrated by Bastien Vivès in 2011 and published in France by Casterman. It was recently published by Jonathan Cape […]
No Idle Day Festival – Young Hearts Run Free – Oct 10th – 12th
There’s a quirky little music and arts festival taking place in Dublin next weekend, that you may not have heard about! It has an impressive list of performers, such as Katie Kim, […]
Things To Do In Dublin (6-10-14 – 12-10-14)
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 […]
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 […]
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