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LOVE READING? OR just picked up one book this year – and couldn’t put it down?
The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards has just released its shortlist, featuring a really wide range of authors from popular names such as Cecilia Ahern and Cathy Kelly to literary figures including Colm Tóibín and Joseph O’Connor.
The awards, in their ninth year, are an unusually democratic process as the winners are decided by not just a panel of around 300 ‘experts’ (librarians, critics, non-shortlisted authors, booksellers and so on) but also given equal weight is a public vote on each category.
So if you want a say on who receives an award this year, get your votes in before midnight on 21 November.
This is the whole list of categories. TheJournal.ie is sponsoring the Best Irish-Published Book of the Year.
Eason Novel of the Year:
Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year:
National Book Tokens Non-Fiction Book of the Year:
Bord Gáis Energy Sports Book of the Year:
TheJournal.ie Best Irish-Published Book of the Year
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year: (Junior)
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year: (Senior)
Avonmore Cookbook of the Year:
Ireland AM Crime Fiction Book of the Year:
Popular Fiction Book of the Year:
RTE Radio One John Murray Show Listeners’ Choice:
Writing.ie Short Story of the Year:
Last year, over 40,000 Irish readers cast a vote in the awards, highlights of which will be broadcast on RTÉ One on Saturday, 29 November.
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But will it be like the great snow of 1947 which my mother told me about as a child. Seemingly, it started snowing on the last Friday in February and continued into March,paralysing the country and closing roads and rail. Lakes froze over and they held dances and skating on the lakes, Snow drifts buried towns and villages and poor farm animals succumbed to the weather,schools closed and the snow stayed on the ground until May, I just remembered about ‘the great snow’ when I read the article above this morning,RIP mam.
Where did this come from??
@Tommy C: Well it didn’t come up from the Azores.
@Tommy C: The Sky ;)
@Tommy C: Don’t stand around asking questions just run and get the bread.
@Tommy C: sky.
@Tommy C: was forecast since early during the week! Not a surprise!
Now that’s more like it.
Proper feckin March weather.
@Skipper Mac: I’ll take sunshine and dryness over cold and wet any day. Bring back last week’s weather!
Come on Liverpool
@Rodger 5: is the weather shite there to?
@Rodger 5: any Irish men on that team
@Rodger 5: Up the Dubs
@Fergus O’Connor: up the dubs.
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But what about Global warming???
Cold weather with heavy snow in 1947??. Imagine!!. If we actually look back at weather fore asts over the years we most likely had all kinds of weather around this time. Governments will always try to fi d ways to take our hard earned cash through taxation. Ha
@Catherine Winston: How did you manage to shoehorn a gripe about taxes into the weather?
@Catherine Winston: Is your keyboard working .You’re firing a few blanks there Catherine.
@Catherine Winston: You should probably google climate change
@Catherine Winston: You should probably google climate change
@Catherine Winston: Did you not know that it was 21°c in the UK last week? In February. That’s summertime temperatures in February! And now it’s going to snow a week later and that seems normal to you!? In January in Australia, you could eat baked apples directly from the trees. And “when you look back at weather forecasts over the years”, you see a trend of global warming. “Most likely” isn’t a term scientists like to use.
Heavy snow falling in Kerry
@Darcy: ah shite heading 4 Kerry tommorow mon
@liam ward60: good luck with that
@liam ward60: Buy a few sliced pans and a pound of butter an stay under the covers.
Just started snowing in Clare!
@Sam Harms: oh feck sake Clare playing Limerick today
@John Waters: it’s raining too so not sticking
Glorious summer weather for two days, then back to the pits.
Global warming already working it’s charm I see!
@IrishFreeThinking: I can see the daffodils in my garden looking hopeless today.
@PC Principal:
Fair daffodils we weep to see
You haste away so soon
Your comment gives new meaning to this poetry.
@Honeybee: As a honeybee, your word is gospel in this regard.
It was already snowing before they issued the warning!
Global Warming, Climate Change ???????? Gibberish
Perfect all weather March weather.
March of many weathers,as the old saying goes.
Heavy snow in Tralee. Absolutely no warning of this in the last 24 hours. Yeah, climate change is nonsense!
FAKE weather reports from the journal again.very warm Sunday here in castlebar windows opened and @ 12 16 PM while its overcast here we have absolutely no rain or snow or sleet Yet
@liam ward60: Ah yeah. It’s not raining in your village therefore it’s all a lie.
@liam ward60: 2pm till 8am tomorrow. Starting in the south and working northwards.
@liam ward60: it’s bucketing down sleet and rain in the Burren
@An bhearna: Haha my village?
@David Walters: was also forecast yesterday sat turned out to be blue skys here till around six pm
But definitely not RED.
That’s mad. It’s warmer in Rome.
it’s so warm for the time of year.
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