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A Good Enough Mother... In Belfast. This year’s Belfast Book Festival was bigger and better than ever | Catherine Dunne Author

In her latest collection, entitled Ghostgirl, the poet Annemarie Ní Chuirreáin breathes life into the lived experiences of those women and girls incarcerated in Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes, [...]

‘We’d meet the first train [at Euston Station] in the morning, the mail train. I used to know if they were pregnant just by looking at them. Even at six weeks, I could tell by the shape of the [...]

A Good Enough Mother: Driving in the Fog | Novel | Catherine Dunne Author | Writing is like driving at night in the fog...

Huge thanks to Shauna Gilligan for her invitation to take part in her series of interviews with writers called WRITERS CHAT. In April 2022, Arlen House – Literature from Ireland for the [...]

This interview marks the publication of a new edition of Lia Mills’ first novel, Another Alice (first published in 1996), as part of the Arlen Classic Literature series. The new edition features [...]

I love lists.

Early in 2021, I received a lovely – and most unexpected – piece of correspondence. It came from His Excellency, the Italian Ambassador to Ireland, Paolo Serpi. He wanted to tell me that I had [...]

I had the pleasure of interviewing Evelyn Conlon on the publication of her latest collection of short stories, MOVING ABOUT THE PLACE, published by The Blackstaff Press.