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Broken Spine #25: One Book, One Twitter
Many of you may have read Dracula or Dorian Grey as part of Dublin’s One City, One Book month this year or last. But now a bigger event is trundling into town…every town. One Book, One Twitter began...
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Broken Spine #26 – Travel Guides
It’s that time of year again. The birds are singing, the sunbeds are filling up, the clouds are starting to clear, the ash is clogging up… wait, strike that last part. It’s summer, and the time for...
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Broken Spine #27: The Big Opening
It’s that time of year again folks. No, not the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival in Kilkenny, but something far more hilarious. The winners of the 2010 Lyttle Lytton Contest have been announced. For those of...
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Competition Closed: Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, Midnight Poe and The Happy Prince...
**Competition Closed – Winners will be contacted** Summertime and the living is easy…local towns and villages are coming up trumps with the usual round of summer festivals and this year there’s a brand...
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Competition Closed: Soundings
**Competition closed, congratulations to Emer.** If you were in secondary school in the ’80s or ’90s then you probably had a copy of Soundings. It was the go-to poetry anthology for Leaving Cert for...
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Story Spark – one for the kids
Story Spark is running in The Ark, a cultural centre for children, in Temple Bar, Dublin in from today and through December. It promises a season of tales, literature and imagination for kids and in...
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Book Review: In Office Hours by Lucy Kellaway
I picked up this book with glee. ‘A funny and moving tale of two affairs…don’t miss’ shouts the cover. What a great excuse to have to read some steamy chic-fic which the Sunday Times declares is...
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Literary Death Match @ The Workman’s Club this Friday 24th June
Feeling a little devoid of intellect? Been watching too many episodes of Keeping Up With The Kardashians lately? Well here’s a night out to redress the balance and allow you to come across all...
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For any bookish types who happen to be in town this evening, The Loft Bookshop on the top floor of Middle Abbey Street’s Twisted Pepper building is having a grand opening starting from 7.30pm,...
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Quick Review: Recent Reads #1
Ender’s Game by Orson Scot Card. I’d seen Ender’s Game pop up at the head of many Top 100/50/10 Sci-Fi book lists, so decided to give it a go. There is a clever (and brutal) plot here, and I can see...
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Quick Review: Recent Reads #2
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling. Yes I’m little bit behind the rest of planet earth in that I’ve only just finished this, the fourth in the Harry Potter series. But just in case...
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Sweary’s Jaw: A Novel Interpretation
If you confessed to not knowing who the Kardashians were, far from sneering at your blissful ignorance, I think I’d have to kiss you. There are so few innocents left in the world. A kiss would be the...
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Literary Belfast launches on Tuesday
The biggest ever gathering of Belfast’s writers is to be held to mark the official launch of a series of new initiatives to highlight the city’s rich literary heritage and vibrant contemporary scene....
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Book Review: The 80s Kid
A copy of The 80s Kid was deposited into our greedy little hands this time last week. It had been talked up somethin’ fierce by the guy who suggested we review it and was cleverly delivered when Team...
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Steve Cummins: Where do Daddies come from? A pregnancy bible for men
I went to the recording of Republic of Telly last Sunday (and before you ask yes Dermot is kinda cute up close!) and the extremely talented Steve Cummins was the warm up, get the audience in a laughing...
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Damian Corless: 9000 Years of Irish Weather
Never heard of Damian Corless ? Say Collins Press, Damian Corless, [is] a journalist and a former editor of Magill and In Dublin, currently contributes to the Irish Independent. He has written comedy...
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