Staying In

BOOKS Westport woman’s brave memoir sheds light on birth mothers’ experiences of adoption in the 1980s

BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews two books that bring 19th-century social dramas vividly to life, by Leo Tolstoy and Hannah Kent

BOOKS Bríd Conroy looks at two new releases: ‘The written world’, by Kevin Power, and Emilie Pine’s debut novel, ‘Ruth & Pen’

MUSIC Liamy MacNally reviews ‘Strange’, the new album by Seamus Ruttledge, AKA Ruttlemush

BOOKS Bríd Conroy on Deirdre Finnerty’s harrowing book, ‘Bessborough: Three Women, Three Decades, Three Stories of Courage’

BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews two books by Japanese authors: ‘Heaven’, by Mieko Kawakami, and ‘Snow Country’, by Yasunari Kawabata

BOOKS Bríd Conroy on a new book club for children and young adults in Westport and its first two picks

BOOK Westport bookseller and bibliophile Bríd Conroy reviews three new books by Irish authors from Irish publishers

BOOKS Indyana Schneider’s first novel about love in all its guises, growing up, and figuring out who you are along the way

MUSIC Tony Reidy is releasing a new CD – ‘Back on the Farm’ – in Matt Molloy’s Yard Bar this Thursday, March 10