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Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction to Launch in 2024 Like the Women’s Prize for fiction, it will be open to all women around the world who are published in the United Kingdom and write in English.

The Women’s Prize for Fiction has announced its intention to launch a new category for non-fiction. The wildly successful award has been running for almost 30 years, with recipients including authors such as Madeline Miller, Zadie Smith, Maggie O’Farrell and, … Continue reading Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction to Launch in 2024 Like the Women’s Prize for fiction, it will be open to all women around the world who are published in the United Kingdom and write in English.

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Review: All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt Seán Hewitt gives a raw and unflinching account of queer experience in this beautifully crafted Gothic memoir.

Photo of Seán Hewitt via TCD Alumni. Seán Hewitt gives a raw and unflinching account of queer experience in this beautifully crafted Gothic memoir. He recounts his experience growing up in the English suburb of Warrington near Liverpool and details … Continue reading Review: All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt Seán Hewitt gives a raw and unflinching account of queer experience in this beautifully crafted Gothic memoir.

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Sitting with uncomfortable feelings Realising that our default individualism and obsession with productivity are characteristic of late stage capitalism alongside other realisations.

Photography by D Sharon Pruitt of Pink Sherbet Photography Sometimes, having a physical form is excruciating. I know it sounds like a silly thing to say, but I imagine that, on some level, it’s a relatively common experience. I feel … Continue reading Sitting with uncomfortable feelings Realising that our default individualism and obsession with productivity are characteristic of late stage capitalism alongside other realisations.

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Line Break Volume 3 Poetry from Trinity alumni Rebecca Gutteridge

  Rebecca Gutteridge is a British master’s student studying Irish Writing at Trinity. Her academic interests lie in gender and material culture, and her poetry – while finding freedom from the rigid constraints of academic writing– follows similar themes. Her … Continue reading Line Break Volume 3 Poetry from Trinity alumni Rebecca Gutteridge

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Books That Encapsulate Autumn From Frankenstein to Normal People

Originally published in print November 2022. Illustration by Linde Vergeylen For me, autumn is the season for reading. The academic year has started. I’m feeling motivated, maybe I’ve even bought a bullet journal. I’m attending all my lectures, wearing sweaters, … Continue reading Books That Encapsulate Autumn From Frankenstein to Normal People

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Edna O’Brien’s ‘Joyce’s Women’ // Abbey Theatre Review Joyce’s Women ought to have been titled Joyce Framed by his Women

PHOTO: Genevieve Hulme-Beaman as Lucia Joyce and Stephen Hogan as James Joyce in Edna O’Brien’s Joyce’s Women. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh Edna O’Brien’s involvement with James Joyce began far earlier than her publication of James and Nora in 1981, and her subsequent … Continue reading Edna O’Brien’s ‘Joyce’s Women’ // Abbey Theatre Review Joyce’s Women ought to have been titled Joyce Framed by his Women

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Unconditional Love A Personal Essay on Finding the Strength to Do the Work that Matters

Art by Linde Vergeylen. The first time I got Covid, I was just barely, barely emerging from my first heartbreak. That week, serendipitously, the one in between Christmas and New Year’s, was the best thing that could have happened to … Continue reading Unconditional Love A Personal Essay on Finding the Strength to Do the Work that Matters

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Mike McCormack’s Irish novel Solar Bones adapted for the Abbey The experimental Irish novel's transition to the stage

  In 2016, Mike McCormack published Solar Bones through Dublin’s own Tramp Press, effectively setting  the story of Marcus Conway (Stanley Townsend) into motion. An experimental novel immediately met with high acclaim, Solar Bones became the third most sold Irish … Continue reading Mike McCormack’s Irish novel Solar Bones adapted for the Abbey The experimental Irish novel’s transition to the stage

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Stories we tell Ourselves about the Climate Crisis How Can We Change the Narrative of Hopelessness Around Climate Change

The year is 1966. Children from several British public schools are asked to predict what life will be like just thirty-four years later in the new millennium. Their answers are stark. One boy considers the potential of a rising sea, … Continue reading Stories we tell Ourselves about the Climate Crisis How Can We Change the Narrative of Hopelessness Around Climate Change

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Romanticising Reading and Old-Fashioned Nostalgia: the Paper Versus E-Book Debate Anna Rice ponders why we still favour paper books over e-books.

Image courtesy of Pixabay.   E-books have been presented as the replacement for paper in a more environmentally conscious, efficient future. In the midst of a climate crisis, the e-reader would seem to be the more environmentally friendly option. E-books … Continue reading Romanticising Reading and Old-Fashioned Nostalgia: the Paper Versus E-Book Debate Anna Rice ponders why we still favour paper books over e-books.