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Irish Hospice Foundation appeals to the public for photos for The Gathering book (IrishCentral)

Thu, 16 May 2013 05:21:46 PDT

By: JANE WALSH

The Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) is offering the public a unique opportunity to be part of an exciting book it is producing to mark The Gathering.

A look at books - the Magdalene Laundries, Reverend Ian Paisley and the Irish Diaspora (IrishCentral)

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:48:17 PDT

It Doesn’t Ring a BellBy Racer LynchIt hasn’t been two decades since the last Magdalene Laundry in Ireland closed in 1996 That’s well within the living memory of young adults The question is, what to do with all that suffering now that its come to light?Even now most would prefer to look the other way, exactly the way they used to when these unpaid gulags were in operation The Irish government had to be browbeaten for years by a group of committed former inmates and their offspring before finally offering a full apology READ MORE

Former Irish prostitute calls on men who buy sex to be named and shamed in new book (IrishCentral)

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:00:02 PDT

By: KERRY O'SHEA

Rachel Moran was only 15 years old and homeless in Dublin when she first turned to prostitution.

A look at books - Irish history, fiction and biography to get your teeth in to (IrishCentral)

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:47:45 PDT

Vengeance By Benjamin BlackBenjamin Black is the pen name of award winning Irish novelist and Booker Prize winner John Banville, which means that the prose stylings of this impressively literary whodunit (and the focus on fully realized characters) are much finer than the genre usually affordsBlack/Banville assembles a cast of upscale but sulphurous Dubliners, including one of Ireland’s most successful – and, it turns out, suicidal -- businessmen, then he exposes the corrupt and corrupting world they live in where money and sex trump all other considerations Detective Inspector Hackett and his pinstriped consultant pathologist sidekick Quirke find themselves pulled ever deeper into the mysterious case and into dangerous the orbit of Dublin’s elite What Black/Banville does with particular facility is to create a climate of suspicion and dread that turns this surprisingly sordid tale into a page-turner of the highest order READ MORE

A look at Irish books for St. Patrick’s Day - heroes, villains and other characters (IrishCentral)

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:32:21 PDT

The Origins of the IrishBy JP MalloryAbout 80 million people trace their origins to Ireland The question that hasn’t really been asked in nearly 80 years is how did the Irish people come into being themselves?Employing the varied disciplines of archeology, genetics, geology, linguistics and mythology, the author traces the disparate influences that shaped the Irish people and their language READ MORE

Irish Arts Center donates thousands of books in NYC for St. Patrick's Day (IrishCentral)

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:04:26 PDT

By: AMANDA DRISCOLL

New York will receive a free windfall of Irish and Irish American literature as a staggering 7,500 books are due to be given away as part of the third annual Irish Arts Center Book Day at eight locations across the five boroughs. The Give Away will begin at 7.30am this Friday, March 15, 2013.

Chase Away the February Blues with Luscious Cooking, Engaging Book Discussion and Mary McSweeney’s Artistry (IrishCentral)

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 03:16:51 PST

- ICC Celebrity Chef Series: Monday, February 25th, 7:30 pm Master Irish Chef Brendan Cronin from Co Mayo and author ofCheffin’: from Potatoes to Caviar prepares his delicious “Irish Coffee Cake READ MORE

Top Irish chef Rachel Allen’s new book shows that easy-to-follow recipes can bring the taste of Ireland to your table (IrishCentral)

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:31:56 PST

The Queen of the Kitchen, Rachel AllenYour Irish mother was right There are two things you need to turn a house into a home -- love and decent cooking Get those two things right and you’re well on your way to enduring happiness But you don’t just become a good cook, do you? If it was easy we’d all be Julia Child, I suppose READ MORE

Irish priests thought Elvis was 'agent of Satan' new book claims (IrishCentral)

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:22:05 PST

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

To the Catholic Church in Ireland Elvis Presley once represented more than blue suede shoes. Could he, they wondered, be a front man for Satan?

Author John Kelly to discuss his latest book, ‘The Graves are Walking’ (IrishCentral)

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 03:46:22 PST

Author John Kelly will discuss his latest book, “The Graves are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People” at Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, 3011 Whitney Avenue, from 5:30-6 pm on Thursday, Feb 7 READ MORE

Irish priest disciplined after claims Jesus never existed in controversial book (IrishCentral)

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:55:11 PST

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

A top priest has been forced to quit a bible teaching job thanks to his work of pulpit fiction which denies the existence of Jesus Christ.

Irish author Eoin Colfer pens one of 11 “Doctor Who” books to honor 50th anniversary of cult classic (IrishCentral)

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:26:17 PST

By: CATHY HAYES

Wexford born author Eoin Colfer has penned one of the 11 new “Doctor Who” books to mark the 50th anniversary of the TV series.

Irish women spent $4 million on ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ books in 2012 (IrishCentral)

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:56:43 PST

By: KERRY O'SHEA

E.L. James, whose own husband is Irish, was the queen of the Irish book market in 2012. Her worldwide smash hit sexy trilogy ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ sold an approximate $4 million in Ireland, making her the highest earning writer in the Irish market for the year.

Irish Cultural Centre Partners with the Donegal County Council’s One Book One Community Reading Event This Winter (IrishCentral)

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:15:55 PST

Author Paula de Fougerolles The ICC’s 2013 Author Series kicks off on Thursday, January 17th at 7:30 pm as the Centre welcomes author Paula de Fougerolles for her media presentation on the Irish history, Celtic landscape, and Ionian archeology which inspired her to write her historical fiction series The Chronicles of Iona (Careswell Press, 2012) The first book in her series is called Exile and tells the story of how the exiled Irish abbot Columba makes his journey to Iona with a Scottish warlord READ MORE

Book with links to President Obama’s relatives to go to auction in Dublin (IrishCentral)

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:12:52 PST

By: PATRICK COUNIHAN

A book written in Latin that once belonged to Barack Obama’s Irish ancestor is to go on sale in Dublin for a thousand dollars.

Looks at Books - Joseph P Kennedy, Notre Dame and Irish recipes (IrishCentral)

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:16:52 PST

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P KennedyBy David Nasaw You can’t understand the American 20th century without contemplating the Irish American family whose epic rise in many ways defined it In David Nasaw’s magisterial study of Joe Kennedy, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P Kennedy, he explores the hardheaded pragmatism that was Kennedy’s central characteristic READ MORE

A look at Irish books - from comedy and Typhoid Mary to history and more (IrishCentral)

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:31:16 PST

Wacky EireBy Geraldine ComiskeyIreland is the acknowledged home of surrealism and Geraldine Comiskey (a roving reporter for the Sunday World) often has occasion to encounter it at its source Having a journalistic resume that includes getting set on fire by stuntmen, dancing on the wings of a World War II bi-plane (well, who hasn’t?) and joining a circus trapeze troupe, she’s clearly ready for anythingIreland in Comiskey’s book is a magical place where all manner of weirdness awaits you down almost very boreen, so in a way her job is an ideal one, scouring the nation in search of funHer book is an eye-popping procession of dodgy faith healers, rural swingers, ghost hunters, GAA players, all of Irish life really READ MORE

Look at books - Irish artists, fiction and history (IrishCentral)

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 06:32:36 PDT

Prodigals And GeniusesBy Brendan LynchThe Irish love a good pub within walking reach and Ireland’s most gifted artists and thinkers have been no exception As Paris has it’s Left Bank and New York has its Upper West Side, for decades Dublin’s bohemian quarter has been centered around Baggot Street and Leeson Street, fringed by the Grand Canal Among it’s familiars were four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature and nearly every major Irish writer of the 19 century, including Oscar Wilde, WB READ MORE

Look at books - Oscar Wilde, Irish history, and savage NYC fiction (IrishCentral)

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:15:20 PDT

More Lives Than One: The Remarkable Wilde Family Through the GenerationsBy Gerard HanberrySometimes your fate arrives in the form of a lover When Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1890 his wife Constance noticed that many of their friends stopped speaking to them after it was publishedThen one day a young man turned up at the invitation of a friend, and Wilde discovered he had read the book nine times Flattered by his attentions, Wilde fell hard for Lord Alfred Douglas, the blond haired son of the Marquis of Queensbury READ MORE

The learned Irish tradition was first written in the trees (IrishCentral)

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:25:13 PDT

The Irish have a learned tradition that is unique to Europe and which helped flip the continent from barbaric illiteracy in Dark Ages, to the illumination and bookishness that would become western civilization Important European universities began as Irish monasteries, built by literati that left Ireland with the education to teach the chaotic post-Roman world to read Old Irish books are tortured creatures, made from skinned calves, and often fated to the bonfires of Europe's philistine streak In the bonfires of conquerors the independent scholarly tradition of Ireland's proto-universities was almost destroyed, as with the round towers and sanctuaries along the Shannon READ MORE