Ennis Book Club Festival

Darragh McKeon explores the prose of memory

March 10, 2024

MILTOWN Malbay based author, Darragh McKeon, was one of the highlights of this year’s Ennis Book Club Festival. Now based Clare, he grew up...

Claire Kilroy is soldiering along

February 25, 2024

After four critically acclaimed, award winning novels, Claire Kilroy went missing for 11 years, or so it seemed. Finally in 2023 she resurfaced with another...

When will we highlight colluders in Church’s shame, asks writer

March 4, 2022

THE German experience, where society had to acknowledge the involvement of many ordinary people in committing the greatest horrors of the 20th century, is...

‘You can feel the tension up here on the ground at the minute’

March 1, 2022

Jan Carson, who appears at Ennis Book Club Festival, tells Owen Ryan about her efforts to reflect all sides of the protestant experience WHILE they...

From North Clare to the Bagfh Desert

February 28, 2022

Frank Golden launches his new collection 'If You Tolerate This' at Ennis book Club Festival. Here he writes of his love for barren and...

‘All of my works are failures’, says Booker Prize winner Banville

February 26, 2022

A BOOKER prize winner, one of the most lauded writers in the English language today, John Banville says that every one of his books...

Women’s voices gaining more purchase on literary landscape

February 13, 2022

IRELAND’S evolving society and what it has meant for women writers will be discussed at a forthcoming literary event. Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Irish...