2024 Archive

London by Philip Ó Ceallaigh: London is a mild-mannered dog whose head and neck resemble that of a wolf. He followed home a man who is deeply contemplating domestic life with a wife, children, a home and a garden with its own walnut tree. The collection Trouble is published by Stinging Fly Press.

Brian Friel: Three short stories by Brian Friel set in the northwest of Ireland in different seasons. Each provides early glimpses of the centrality of faith, hope and make believe in his subsequent plays. First published in the 1960s in The New Yorker, they are included in Selected Stories: Brian Friel by The Gallery Press.

Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marian Keyes: From the Book on One archive: Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married is Marian Keyes’ 1996 best-selling novel. Twenty-six-year-old Lucy and her friends decide to visit a fortune teller for a bit of fun. When Lucy is told she will be married within a year, what follows is a hilarious and heartfelt whirl of events.

Tied to the Wind by Afric McGlinchey: An auto fiction by Afric McGlinchey, read by the author. Itosha, a young girl tries to tether herself to a life that keeps becoming unfixed. Her family move from Ireland to Southern Africa and back again exacerbated by alcoholism, racism, war and the complicity of colonial privilege. She tells her ultimately hopeful story, in short vivid episodes.

Negative Space by Cristín Leach: Negative Space, published by Merrion Press, is a memoir by one of Ireland’s leading art writers and critics, Cristín Leach. In it she weaves words and art with the unravelling of self that comes when a marriage breaks down.

Snowflake by Louise Nealon: Louise Nealon’s debut novel Snowflake is the 2024 One Dublin One Book, the annual month-long celebration by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature of a book with associations with the city. It received the Best Newcomer Award at the 2021 An Post Irish Book Awards and has achieved international acclaim for the author.