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BOOKS Mayo author Mike McCormack named Wild Atlantic Words judge

Booker Prize-nominee Mike McCormack has been named as judge of this year’s Wild Atlantic Words (WAW) festival’s short-story competition. Mike McCormack, A Louisburgh native, is the author of two collections of short stories, ‘Getting it in the Head’ ...

12 Jun 2024 at 21:00

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BOOKS: Lost socks and finding the magic of Christmas

WHEN Maria Commins Feerick picked up the phone to ring her father and tell him about her idea for a children’s book, she knew instinctively he would like it. Her father is Michael Commins, the legendary journalist of The Mayo News, and Maria didn’t ...

23 Nov 2023 at 18:30

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BOOKS: The mystery of the Cong Canal

The infamous Cong Canal that wouldn’t hold water has been the stuff of rumour and hearsay in Mayo for more than a hundred years. In his latest book, Peter Dillon, combines local history, canal design and political intrigue to tell, for the first ...

24 Nov 2023 at 18:30

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BOOK TALK: Riding the road from Chile to Alaska

Some of us, like veteran journalist and author Peter Murtagh, hanker for the road. His new book, ‘From Tip to Top’, published last week by Gill Books, tells the story of his ‘journey of a lifetime’: riding a motorbike from Tierra del Fuego in ...

26 Apr 2024 at 10:30

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BOOK TALK: Messages from this world and another

On a recent short break to Italy (thanks to friends who volunteered and helped us keep the bookshop open), I got to read two of the books in my ‘love to read’ pile. The first was ‘The Seamstress of Sardinia’, by Italian author Bianca ...

28 Sept 2024 at 09:59

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BOOK TALK: Madcap adventures to entertain young readers in Mayo

‘The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science’, by Kate McKinnon, is the sort of book I would love to have read when I was ten years of age. I’m catching up, eventually. Many will know American actress and ...

24 Oct 2024 at 10:31

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BOOK TALK: Author Niall Williams in Mayo later this month for Westport reading

Niall Williams’ new book, ‘Time of the Child’, is being published by Bloomsbury on October 24, and the celebrated author will read from it in Westport that evening. The event – which is being hosted by our bookshop, Tertulia, in ...

12 Oct 2024 at 10:01

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BOOKS Booker-shortlisted ‘Creation Lake’ has an eerie message

This year’s Booker Prize will be announced on Tuesday, November 12. This is the prestigious annual prize for the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK or Ireland. For the first time ever five ...

10 Nov 2024 at 10:00

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BOOKS: A colourful tale of Clew Bay treasure

There’s something very magical about Clew Bay… its endless islands encircled by rocky inlets and majestic mountains, its shorelines strewn with beaches and castles, its abundant wildlife of land, sea and sky – and of course, ...

06 Mar 2025 at 19:32

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BOOKS: Louisburgh bookshop hosting ‘meet and greet’ to mark release of ‘Aer Dogs’

Released on Friday last, February 28, ‘Aer Dogs’, is written by an award-winning journalist and co-founder of business publication, ‘The Currency’, Tom Lyons. The book tells the story of a small team of Irish trailblazers ...

05 Mar 2025 at 11:00

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BOOK TALK: Spring releases to savour

Spring is on the horizon I say optimistically. It’s a great time for the spring releases of the latest books. So I am currently in a book frenzy, reading about five books at the same time but here is two I actually ...

27 Feb 2025 at 11:30

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BOOK TALK: A winter mystery and a girlhood memoir

While out visiting friends the other night, I was asked which books were my favourites of 2024. So there I was, relaxed, eating and drinking – and completely stumped. Where is my mental list of favourite books ...

18 Jan 2025 at 11:00

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