Well-known figures such as Fiona Shaw, Joe Duffy and Sonia O’Sullivan tell Richard Fitzpatrick about the reads they’ve been most impressed with in 2019.

THERE are two ways to read Finnegans Wake: aloud, letting the words wash over you, or with slow methodical parsing, going word-by-word, painstakingly teasing out the implications and associations of Joyce’s polyglot puns and neologisms.

THE clinching final offer on Riverrun seemed almost too good to be true. And, unfortunately for the vendors, it was.

I WISH to add my voice to that of Michael O’Donnell (Irish Examiner letters, Sept 10) in relation to the possible closure of the Cork Centre for the Unemployed.