BOOKS Westport bookseller and bibliophile Bríd Conroy on three books that explore the human experience of time
Staying In
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
Tale of Newport’s historic jam jar on TV tonight
CULTURE Local War of Independence discovery to feature on RTÉ’s Ear to the Ground
Picking apart our perception of identity
BOOKS Bríd Conroy on ‘The Lies That Bind – Rethinking Identity’, a thought-provoking book by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Mulranny musician’s debut single out this week
MUSIC Enda Mulloy’s debut single ‘Batten the Hatches Down’ from his upcoming first album will be released this coming Thursday
My top Christmas reads
BOOKS Westport bookseller Bríd Conroy shares the titles that she is looking forward to reading this Christmas
Mayo authors fêted at Irish Book Awards
BOOKS Sally Rooney and Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin win Novel of the Year and Irish Language Book Of The Year, respectively
Behind the Bard
BOOKS Westport bookseller and bibliophile Bríd Conroy reviews Marie O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’, a fictional retelling of the death of Shakespeare’s son
Two princes with lessons for all
BOOKS Bríd Conroy on children’s classics ‘The Little Prince’, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and ‘The Happy Prince’, by Oscar Wilde