MUSIC Liamy MacNally reviews ‘Strange’, the new album by Seamus Ruttledge, AKA Ruttlemush
An eleven-song emotional cruise
Staying In
Harrowing tales of Bessborough
BOOKS Bríd Conroy on Deirdre Finnerty’s harrowing book, ‘Bessborough: Three Women, Three Decades, Three Stories of Courage’
Japanese fiction touches on universal themes
BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews two books by Japanese authors: ‘Heaven’, by Mieko Kawakami, and ‘Snow Country’, by Yasunari Kawabata
Fostering the joy of reading early
BOOKS Bríd Conroy on a new book club for children and young adults in Westport and its first two picks
Irish publishers worth getting behind
BOOK Westport bookseller and bibliophile Bríd Conroy reviews three new books by Irish authors from Irish publishers
At the heart of it
BOOKS Indyana Schneider’s first novel about love in all its guises, growing up, and figuring out who you are along the way
Westport’s Tony Reidy releasing new CD
MUSIC Tony Reidy is releasing a new CD – ‘Back on the Farm’ – in Matt Molloy’s Yard Bar this Thursday, March 10
Just a matter of time
BOOKS Westport bookseller and bibliophile Bríd Conroy on three books that explore the human experience of time
Poignant beauty, perfectly crafted
BOOKS Westport bookseller and bibiophile Bríd Conroy looks at Claire Keegan’s ‘Small Things Like These’
Different eras, similar themes
BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews Eithne Shortall’s ‘It Could Never Happen Here’ and Jan Carson’s ‘The Raptures’
Cuckoo for the Greeks
BOOKS Bríd Conroy on three books related to the Greeks – a sweeping history, a classic and a modern fiction