Irish Literary Times Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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TS Eliot, The Waste Land and Ireland – Yale’s Joe Cleary considers the centenary of the poet’s masterpiece in an Irish literary context https://t.co/YSXDJxit6F https://t.co/k6Fp4rHVqh

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A memoir from Lucinda Williams https://t.co/9DR419Deuq

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Conversations with Friends star Jemima Kirke talks about BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s debut novel https://sco.lt/5tx9yS https://t.co/9Muc2gHNHL

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Jessamine O'Connor reading in Sligo last night, at Poetry by the Weir, from her debut @salmonpoetry collection, Silver Spoon in @OstaCafe. Hosted by my alter ego @gerardbeirne . Great turnout. https://t.co/GKVxHHdo4K

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You Must Read This: Fionola Meredith on Good Behaviour, a biting classic by Molly Keane  https://t.co/oSKbCPt97x https://t.co/e6o1hLMvay

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"Joyce’s Ulysses—which, as Samuel Johnson said of Paradise Lost, no one ever wished it were longer—a novel rescued (as far as I can tell) by college professors, the Irish themselves and by people who like to have something to hold over someone else." - Richard Ford

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“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. I don’t like them myself. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them on winter evenings.” – The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

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1/2/ Colm Toibin. There are two marvelous Irish novels coming out in the U.S. soon: One is Hugo Hamilton's The Pages, which is narrated by a single book, a novel by Joseph Roth, that has had a very adventurous life. It is an ingenious book, totally absorbing and satisfying.

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Rights - Canongate scoops first novel in five years from Night Boat to Tangier author Kevin Barry https://t.co/xos6gV3tY5 https://t.co/0Z0bTuR9MA

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LA Review of Books - A Tender Irish Elegy: Sally Rooney’s “Beautiful World, Where Are You” https://sco.lt/9Hn8cK https://t.co/Tsj9VIXTWr