Martin Doyle
@martindoyle.bsky.social
Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
@paulduane.bsky.social's Barbaric Genius, a film about John Healy - the vagrant turned memoirist turned international chess whizz - is one of my favourite documentaries of all time. It's having a rare full screening at the IFI in Dublin on Monday 17th August. You should go!! ifi.ie/film/from-th...
FROM THE VAULTS: BARBARIC GENIUS + Q&A - Irish Film Institute
SCREENING MONDAY 17th AUGUST Paul Duane’s intimate portrait charts the unpredictable life of John Healy – award-winning author, internationally distinguished chess player and erstwhile alcoholic vagra...
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Glen Hansard was Ireland’s band leader, something Bono or Geldof couldn’t be www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
Glen Hansard was Ireland’s band leader, something Bono or Geldof couldn’t be
The Frames’ frontman was the still-yet-chaotic centre of an indie-folk storm, whose job was to hold it all together
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Booker Prize 2026: Irish debutant features on longlist alongside Marlon James, Douglas Stuart and more. Djamel White’s gangland novel All Them Dogs is up against former winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart as well as Elizabeth Strout and nine others www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Booker Prize 2026: Irish debutant features on longlist alongside Marlon James, Douglas Stuart and more
Djamel White’s gangland novel All Them Dogs is up against former winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart as well as Elizabeth Strout and nine others
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I have a new short story published in today's Irish Times. I hope you enjoy it – I'll share the link when it's online. Writing it was the purest creative experience I've ever had. Huge thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social for publishing it.
My review of 'Enough About Angels', László Krasznahorkai's Nobel Prize in Literature lecture, translated by @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social is online at @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Books in brief: Fascinating works by László Krasznahorkai, Kate Briggs and Liz McManus
From Krasznahorkai’s extraordinary Nobel-prize acceptance speech to McManus’s astute chronicles of tumultuous times
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Books set in summer: Sun, sea and... 10 of the best reads From the French Riviera to Sag Harbor via faded English seaside resorts, fiction shows how long, hot days can be glorious but complicated, writes Laura Slattery www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Books set in summer: Sun, sea and... 10 of the best reads
From the French Riviera to Sag Harbor via faded English seaside resorts, fiction shows how long, hot days can be glorious but complicated
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‘I’ve been very lucky in life but leaving Ireland broke my heart’ Irish author Jane Casey on growing up in Dublin and realising living there as an adult with her family wasn’t working www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
‘I’ve been very lucky in life but leaving Ireland broke my heart’
Irish author Jane Casey on growing up in Dublin and realising living there as an adult with her family wasn’t working
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Books newsletter: International Booker Prize fund doubles Plus details of our summer fiction series - great original stories from Rónán Hession, Elaine Garvey, Alice Ryan, Abbie Spallen, Neil Tully, Caragh Maxwell and the winner of €3,000 Moth Short Story Prize www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Claire Connolly wins Robert Rhodes Prize
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages
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My reviews of the books listed below are now online. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Translated fiction: Tie Ning’s The Passage of Roses is a deeply impressive accomplishment
Plus works by Sara Mesa; Inès Cagnati; Eugenia Ladra; Eva Vezhnavets; and Alejandra Kamiya
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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝@jacqbetula.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy reviews of these books will be in next weekend's Irish Times: The Family by Sara Mesa, tr. by Katie Whittemore (Peirene) Crazy Genie by Inès Cagnati, tr. by Liesl Schillinger @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social Bait by Eugenia Ladra, tr. by Miriam Tobin @dauntbookspub.bsky.social 1/2 cont. below...
On Bloomsday, if you take just one message from Ulysses then it should be this one www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Opinion: On Bloomsday, if you take just one message from Ulysses then it should be this one
James Joyce didn’t trade in false hope, but he reminds us how political optimism, even if foolish, is never wasted
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Death at the bridge: The Troubles murder of Terence McKeever, 40 years on. Powerful article by Mark Hennessy based on an interview with the sister of a building contractor murdered by the IRA in 1986 www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Death at the bridge: The Troubles murder of Terence McKeever, 40 years on
The newly wed businessman was killed by the IRA, but key evidence has since gone missing on both sides of Border
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My Q&A with Chris Haughton: ‘Children’s books are underappreciated in general. It’s short-sighted’ The new Laureate na nÓg on inspiring hope, combating injustice, and his upcoming court appearance www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Chris Haughton: ‘Children’s books are underappreciated in general. It’s short-sighted’
The new Laureate na nÓg on inspiring hope, combating injustice, and his upcoming court appearance
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Author Keith Ridgway: ‘Dooneen is the most beautiful place on Earth, as far as I’m concerned’ The celebrated Irish author writes about the ‘wonky Dublin’ he has written about in Dooneen, his latest novel www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Author Keith Ridgway: ‘Dooneen is the most beautiful place on Earth, as far as I’m concerned’
The celebrated Irish author writes about the ‘wonky Dublin’ he has written about in Dooneen, his latest novel
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Brexit Britain now: Patrick Freyne revisits Leave voter heartlands 10 years on www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Brexit Britain now: Patrick Freyne revisits Leave voter heartlands 10 years on
A decade after the UK decided to leave the EU, many in Britain regret the outcome – but not the vote
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I interviewed Keith Ridgway for @irishtimes.com about his outstanding new novel ‘Dooneen’. Published @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and @ndbooks.bsky.social. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Kieran Connell: How did an attack in a nationalist part of Belfast lead to rioting in loyalist areas?
Kieran Connell: How did an attack in a nationalist part of Belfast lead to rioting in loyalist areas?
AI-generated images with the Union Jack and Irish Tricolour displayed side by side circulated on social media before this week’s riots, but loyalists were at the centre of the disturbances
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Author Nathan Whitlock considers Anakana Schofield’s first three books to be among the best Canadian novels of this century. He expected something daring after 2019’s Bina; Schofield’s latest, Library of Brothel, is even more surprising than anticipated. https://ow.ly/wjlC50ZaXKV
Many women have been horrifically killed here in the past 5 years, including at least 7 who were stabbed multiple times, and their deaths did not receive statements from the PM, debates in the commons, or global news coverage. Nor were there any riots, or condemnations of cultures by politicians.
A picture of violence: The 30 women killed in more than four years
In at least 21 of the 30 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.
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I lived in London when people were killed by IRA bomb attacks. I didn't think that entitled anyone to physically attack Irish people, portray us as uniformly sinister or suggest hatred towards us was understandable. I still don't think that's acceptable. In London, Belfast or anywhere else.
The first translation of Dirty Linen, into Polish by Maciej Studencki, is published in August by Luneta. eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Summer reading hitlist: New novels, classics and nonfiction books recommended by writers www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Summer reading hitlist: New novels, classics and nonfiction books recommended by writers
Gripping thrillers, sport memoirs and the best recent fiction to pack in your holiday suitcase
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