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BULLETIN: Government accused of 'playing chicken' with soldiers' lives; Pope blamed for drop in Dublin Zoo visitors

Here's your morning bulletin.

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The Storm’s Gift: A short story extract from Cork author Billy O'Callaghan

A special Christmas story by Cork author Billy O’Callaghan. His novel, ‘My Coney Island Baby’, is published by Jonathan Cape and will be available in all good bookstores on January 17

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What the season means to me: Five Irish authors talk about they memories of Christmas past

Louise O’Neill, Conal Creedon, Caroline O’Donoghue, Patricia Scanlan and Billy O’Callaghan: Five authors share their festive memories

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Why we love to read and what our favourite authors enjoyed as children

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Review: Cork International Short Story Festival

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Books for the beach this summer

FIRST THOUGHTS: Vargas Llosa fails to reach the heights of past

FOR the first three quarters of this 325-page novel, Peruvian master, Mario Vargas Llosa seems to be spinning, in alternating chapters, two quite separate — albeit thematically similar — yarns.

Sat, 18 Apr, 2015

In the ‘enchanted’ dungeon there is nothing to do but wait

IN the belly of an old prison is a dungeon, an ‘enchanted place’, that houses Death Row inmates, and it is here that York waits out his final months before the lethal injection is administered.

Sat, 11 Apr, 2015

Cork World Book Fest Highlights 2014

Celebrating ten years in existence, the Cork World Book Fest (April 22-26), organised by Cork City Library and Triskel Christchurch, is one of the city’s most popular cultural events.

Fri, 18 Apr, 2014

A ruin on the Beara peninsula

A few years ago, I was driving the Beara Peninsula and happened across the house of my dreams.

Mon, 13 Jan, 2014

No escape from reality in atmospheric fictions

The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind

Sat, 23 Nov, 2013

Short story festival highlights

HIGHLIGHT of the Cork International Short Story Festival (Sept 18-22) will be a reading by, and public interview with David Constantine, winner of the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award at Triskel Christchurch on Sept 22.

Fri, 13 Sep, 2013

Trying to unwrap the great Coetzee enigma

The determinedly private JM Coetzee is one of the world’s great writers. Billy O’Callaghan reports on a biography that unwraps the enigma

Sat, 22 Jun, 2013

Curio lacks Guthrie bite

House of Earth

Sat, 30 Mar, 2013

Repulsive, compelling

Daddy Love

Sat, 16 Feb, 2013

A tortured soul

Where I Left My Soul

Sat, 05 Jan, 2013

Long dark night of soul

Professor Andersen’s Night

Sat, 15 Dec, 2012

Ambitious work gives a taste of talent to come

Silent House

Sat, 08 Dec, 2012

Sisters mend their grief by nursing the war-wounded

The Daughters of Mars

Sat, 01 Dec, 2012

Desai is gently deep

The Artist of Disappearance

Sat, 03 Nov, 2012

Robbed of their dignity

The Shadow of What We Were

Sat, 20 Oct, 2012

Vivid portrayal of war evokes spirit of Hemingway

The Yellow Birds

Sat, 13 Oct, 2012

Able rewrite of Cain’s life

Cain

Sat, 06 Oct, 2012

Short sharp love stories

This is How You Lose Her

Sat, 29 Sep, 2012

A 400-year-old horror story of full-on pulp but little insight

The Daylight Gate Jeanette Winterson

Sat, 15 Sep, 2012

Growing her own stories

Cork-based Joyce Russell dug deep into her interest in nature and family relationships for her first collection, Bloodlines, writes Billy O’Callaghan

Wed, 12 Sep, 2012

Tortured soul: interrogator’s moral dilemmas are Israel’s

Limassol

Sat, 25 Aug, 2012

Stories span the globe

Mother America

Sat, 04 Aug, 2012

Haunted and shaped by the pasts we’ve had to endure

A Year’s Midnight

Sat, 28 Jul, 2012

Subtle as a stiletto

Vengeance

Sat, 21 Jul, 2012

Novels get new lease of life after long time on the shelf

Brendan Kennelly A&A Farmar, €12. 99 Review: Billy O’CallaghanSince breaching the literary scene more than half a century ago, Brendan Kennelly has enjoyed a highly acclaimed career as a bard of the people.

Sat, 14 Jul, 2012

A farewell to arms

The Soldier’s Farewell

Sat, 07 Jul, 2012

Ru is right on cue

Sat, 23 Jun, 2012

Generous sampler of the greatness of John Updike

Higher Gossip

Sat, 16 Jun, 2012

One of the history’s most enigmatic absorbing and controversial figures

The Dream of the Celt

Sat, 02 Jun, 2012

Crime debut is bang-on

Ghost Town

Sat, 26 May, 2012

Guaranteed to satisfy

Tuesday’s Gone

Sat, 19 May, 2012

A Caribbean delight

Pao

Sat, 05 May, 2012

Possibly the most compelling, inventive novel this year

Azazeel

Sat, 28 Apr, 2012

Surviving Treblinka

Treblinka: A Survivor’s Memory

Sat, 14 Apr, 2012

A Paris walk fit for gods

The Most Beautiful Walk in the World

Sat, 07 Apr, 2012

Daddy Dearest

The Tyrant

Sat, 31 Mar, 2012

Washington underbelly

What It Was

Sat, 17 Mar, 2012

‘Barracka’ celebrates 175th anniversary

Members of a legendary brass and reed band marched through Cork city yesterday to honour their founder as part of their 175th anniversary celebrations.

Mon, 12 Mar, 2012

A trip down memory lane

Memory Wall

Sat, 10 Mar, 2012

Book Reviews

Things We Didn’t See Coming

Sat, 25 Feb, 2012

Impressive debut novel

Pigeon English

Sat, 18 Feb, 2012

Spies don’t fall short

Agents of Treachery: Spy Stories

Sat, 11 Feb, 2012

Captivating Nazi tale

Noah’s Child

Sat, 04 Feb, 2012

Book Reviews

Falling Sideways

Sat, 07 Jan, 2012

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