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GET READY TO clear some space on your bookshelves and dust off those book tokens, because we now know what the best Irish books of 2017 are.
This evening, the literary world gathered for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017, where new and established faces were there to hear the winners named from a slew of categories.
Here’s who came out on top:
Atlas of the Irish Revolution – John Crowley, Donál Ó Drisceoil, Mike Murphy and John Borgonovo (Cork University Press)
A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea – Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood – Sarah Webb illustrated by Steve Mc Carthy (The O’ Brien Press)
Stand by Me – Judi Curtin (The O’ Brien Press)
Tangleweed and Brine – Deirdre Sullivan illustrated by Karen Vaughan (Little Island)
Midwinter Break – Bernard MacLaverty (Jonathan Cape)
The Break – Marian Keyes (Michael Joseph)
The Therapy House – Julie Parsons (New Island Books)
I Found my Tribe – Ruth Fitzmaurice (Chatto & Windus)
Wounds: A Memoir of War & Love – Fergal Keane (Williams Collins)
Motherfoclóir – Darach Ó Séaghdha (Head of Zeus)
Cook Well, Eat Well – Rory O’ Connell (Gill Books)
The Choice – Philly McMahon with Niall Kelly (Gill Books)
he: A novel – John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)
Seven Sugar Cubes – Clodagh Beresford Dunne (From the Irish Times)
Back to Bones – Christine Dwyer Hickey (Longlisted for Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award)
WOW, all the pro-Chinese t-ro-lls already on here……..
I just read an utterly insane comment that HK protestors should be thankful they’re not facing the NYPD?!!
Just how blind to China’s, literal, decades long abuses of human rights do they think we are?
@Tricia G: the 50 cent army is always around for these articles to spout their muck.
It’s both Full Moon
@Seriousnojoke: You mean all those people being kettled in Causeway bay by Police right now?
@Seriousnojoke: You think people in HK should consider themselves lucky because they are not dealing with NYPD. I disagree, Hong Kongers are lucky because the CCP have been kind not send them to concentration camps like the have for the Uyghurs in mainland China.
@Seriousnojoke: Pro-PRC troll.
@Seriousnojoke: LMFAO
@Seriousnojoke: You are a CCP pansy. The police harrassed a senior citizen for carry a yellow balloon ffs and charge groups of people who gather to cross the street at crossings, then arrest minors for baseless charges. Reading an Apple daily publication gains you the attention of police, like the guy alone in the MTR surround by 12 or more police while he read the paper.
@Seriousnojoke: propaganda troll for the CCP.
@Little Pudding: “the CCP have been kind not send them to concentration camps like the have for the Uyghurs”
Give them time!
Move to Taiwan and report from there instead. That will really pi*s off the CCP.
25 years ago, I was worried about China for all of us…. kept saying that in several debates… here we are….
Apple Daily, full lies, bias views or opinions, we call it as poison Apple, just like Fox News, other media debunks their lies and nobody’s cares.
In hk, the journalist was cheap, just pay €25 that is all. The most time they have tons of “journalists” standing between police and riots, literally standing between them. The police couldn’t do their job, just like mosquitos, so annoying. One of the photo i’ve see is one police hold smoke grenade gun standing at the corner and aim, that is all on hk media, but the full photo is about 50 journalists around him and taking photo of him, who cares about that?
Denzel Washington said if you read the newspaper, if you don’t read it, you’re misinformed, What is the long-term effect of too much information? One of the effects is the need to be first, not even to be true anymore.”
So what a responsibility you all have; to tell the truth, not to just be first, but to tell the truth.
“We live in a society now where it’s just first. Who cares? Get it out there. We don’t care who it hurts, we don’t care who we destroy, we don’t care if it’s true. Just say it, sell it.”
Harrow
I had a comment deleted because I was critical of journalists and their of of the tv licence scam
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