In fiction, Irish ... male writers who manage to create credible female characters, here's a female writer who has created a great male character – I adored it. As for the novel of the century ...

Mindful of this and the knowledge that any verdict is only as trustworthy as the calibre of the jurors, I invited more than 60 experts (authors ... Irish novels or short story collections of the ...

Not as easily recognized are intriguing women ... Irish women writers. This list names writers who are all contemporaries of one another, born in the last decade or so of the 19th century.

The same happened in Boston, where minority voters saw in Marty Walsh not a typical Irish pol but a union guy who helped women and minorities ... By the early 20th century, the Irish pol became ...

It insightfully depicts the 21st-century phenomenon of becoming ... Her work gives migrant writers a voice in an otherwise white-dominated Irish literary scene, and is full of warm, human tenderness.

Word for Word, the inventive company that stages stories exactly as written, aptly turns its literary-theatrical lens on two true stories about historical female writers, both Irish. And the ...

It is tempting to review this anthology of short stories by Irish ... women writers by trotting out the well-worn argument about whether there is any need for such a thing. After all, this is the ...