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Yasmin Zaher: “When you come from a situation where your life is already unstable and risky, you’re going to search for a profession that can give you more stability"
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  • 07 Jul 25

Yasmin Zaher: “When you come from a situation where your life is already unstable and risky, you’re going to search for a profession that can give you more stability"

Jeanine Cummins on her latest novel: “One of the great joys of writing this book was to imagine a different outcome for her, and for my dad, really”
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  • 02 Jul 25

Jeanine Cummins on her latest novel: “One of the great joys of writing this book was to imagine a different outcome for her, and for my dad, really”

Vogue Williams - <i>Best of Ireland</i> Cover Story: "Where you're from becomes a part of you. It's where you feel your most calm and happiest"
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  • 26 Jun 25

Vogue Williams - Best of Ireland Cover Story: "Where you're from becomes a part of you. It's where you feel your most calm and happiest"

Andrea Mara: “I just love that idea of unpeeling layers and discovering something extraordinary about an ordinary person, and deep dark secrets – all of that”
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  • 24 Jun 25

Andrea Mara: “I just love that idea of unpeeling layers and discovering something extraordinary about an ordinary person, and deep dark secrets – all of that”

Seán Hewitt: "When a lot of people fall in love, the line between what’s real and what’s not kind of blurs a bit"
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  • 24 May 25

Seán Hewitt: "When a lot of people fall in love, the line between what’s real and what’s not kind of blurs a bit"

Eoin McNamee: "That was a private dread, but if you spread it out, there was a kind of public dread of living along the border"
  • Opinion
  • 10 May 25

Eoin McNamee: "That was a private dread, but if you spread it out, there was a kind of public dread of living along the border"

Rebecca Watson: “Grief is a pretty big subject and the way in which we talk about it is quite intimidating"
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  • 10 Apr 25

Rebecca Watson: “Grief is a pretty big subject and the way in which we talk about it is quite intimidating"

Joseph O'Connor: "I did not think that I’d have to explain to my children what fascism is, or what extreme racism is"
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  • 17 Mar 25

Joseph O'Connor: "I did not think that I’d have to explain to my children what fascism is, or what extreme racism is"

Catherine Airey: "I was eight years old when 9/11 happened, and I remember it being the first big world event that really stuck in my mind"
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  • 12 Mar 25

Catherine Airey: "I was eight years old when 9/11 happened, and I remember it being the first big world event that really stuck in my mind"

Roisin O'Donnell: "It's an issue for everyone, not just women"
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  • 25 Feb 25

Roisin O'Donnell: "It's an issue for everyone, not just women"

David Rooney: "The four year old me who never wanted to go to school got to run the adult show"
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  • 21 Dec 24

David Rooney: "The four year old me who never wanted to go to school got to run the adult show"

David McWilliams: "You'd be amazed how the Bernie Sanders left and the MAGA right, in certain areas, sound very similar"
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  • 10 Dec 24

David McWilliams: "You'd be amazed how the Bernie Sanders left and the MAGA right, in certain areas, sound very similar"

John Connolly – Mad Hatter Q&A: "I had vague ambitions to be a vet, hampered slightly by Synge Street CBS refusing to teach us biology"
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  • 19 Nov 24

John Connolly – Mad Hatter Q&A: "I had vague ambitions to be a vet, hampered slightly by Synge Street CBS refusing to teach us biology"

Robert Harris: "Trump is a sort of showman, it’s all about him. There isn’t coherent thinking behind what he does, it’s whatever crosses his strange brain at any given moment”
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  • 23 Oct 24

Robert Harris: "Trump is a sort of showman, it’s all about him. There isn’t coherent thinking behind what he does, it’s whatever crosses his strange brain at any given moment”

John Banville: "It’s a like a child playing with insects – you have absolute power over the characters"
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  • 22 Oct 24

John Banville: "It’s a like a child playing with insects – you have absolute power over the characters"

Colin Barrett: "I am just very interested in writing about marginal characters"
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  • 16 Oct 24

Colin Barrett: "I am just very interested in writing about marginal characters"

Roddy Doyle: "It’s getting away from the notion of the mother as a saint. The blessed virgin – Jesus, what a model..."
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  • 26 Sep 24

Roddy Doyle: "It’s getting away from the notion of the mother as a saint. The blessed virgin – Jesus, what a model..."

Sarah Crossan on porn: "if you disapprove, does that mean you’re a prude, a non-feminist, or anti women doing what they want with their bodies?"
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  • 02 Jul 24

Sarah Crossan on porn: "if you disapprove, does that mean you’re a prude, a non-feminist, or anti women doing what they want with their bodies?"

Kevin Barry: "The most intense mushroom experience of my life was on Barrack Street in Cork in 1989. I was fully convinced I was a traffic light..."
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  • 13 Jun 24

Kevin Barry: "The most intense mushroom experience of my life was on Barrack Street in Cork in 1989. I was fully convinced I was a traffic light..."

David Nicholls on his latest book <i>You Are Here</i>: "I wanted it to be about how invigorating and inspiring friendship and company can be"
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  • 06 Jun 24

David Nicholls on his latest book You Are Here: "I wanted it to be about how invigorating and inspiring friendship and company can be"

Caoilinn Hughes - "How we think about the future is so different to how our parents thought about the future"
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  • 28 May 24

Caoilinn Hughes - "How we think about the future is so different to how our parents thought about the future"

Andrew O'Hagan: "I like novelists when they live in the centre of ambivalence"
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  • 23 Apr 24

Andrew O'Hagan: "I like novelists when they live in the centre of ambivalence"

John Boyne – Mad Hatter Q&A: Biggest thrill? "A private lunch last year with Kate Bush"
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  • 18 Apr 24

John Boyne – Mad Hatter Q&A: Biggest thrill? "A private lunch last year with Kate Bush"

Richard Balls on his Shane MacGowan biography: "I really did feel that weight of responsibility"
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  • 04 Apr 24

Richard Balls on his Shane MacGowan biography: "I really did feel that weight of responsibility"

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