Phil McDaragh is a great Irish poet; he was also a lousy husband and father, abandoning his family to pursue his writing. In Anne Enright's new novel, The Wren, The Wren, three generations of women in ...

When Anne Enright won the prestigious 2007 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering, she spent a fair amount of time explaining that the book wasn't as bleak as most critics found it to be. True, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of an escaped slave and her murdered daughter, this novel contains wrenching truths. Beloved is not just a work of ...

Anne Enright won the won the Booker Prize for her book “The Gathering” in 2007. She read this year at the Gerson Irish Literature Reading. Photo by Rikka Ameboshi/Pexels. The Irish Studies Alliance ...

ALA celebrated a first tonight in Anaheim when Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz and Robert K. Massie’s Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman were named the respective winners of the inaugural ...

"The Gathering” by Anne Enright is the October 2024 selection for the IrishCentral Book Club. Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ...

You have not experienced Irish theatre until you have seen a show that involves a ferry, rain, stone-walled fields and the keen, mild interest of the Aran Islanders, who have great good manners and no ...

Your story “Solstice,” in this week’s issue, is set on December 21, 2016. Did you write it on that day? I put together a short-story event in Dublin on December 21st, with music by the ...

In Anne Enright's Booker Prize-winning novel about a family wake, the narrator remembers, lies, invents and imagines with equal ardor. Here, fictions have as much weight as facts. In this conversation ...