The Travellers
Birte Kaufmann
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The Celebration
Cathy Sweeney
‘I had just come home from boarding school when Father took me aside and told me that Mother was up to her old antics, letting the whole family down, and that if she continued, we’d have to act.’
A Woman of No Information
Caoilinn Hughes
‘Maud tries to understand how her role is being rewritten on the spot – who the woman might be.’
Exciting Times
Naoise Dolan
‘There was something Shakespearean about imperious men going down on you: the mighty have fallen.’
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In Conversation
Eimear McBride
‘Spending time in a place in which you have no personal stake breeds a peculiar kind of contemplativeness.’
Pefkos
David Harsent
‘When he began to walk again, he was picturing himself sitting beside her in their usual bar, drinking a cold beer and smoking a cigarette.’
