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Marian Keyes finds a new way to blend reality and fiction in the most urgent and funny “Mystery of Mercy Close” (IrishCentral)

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:06:14 PDT

By: CAHIR O'DOHERTY

Marian Keyes has made a career of writing about brilliant young Irish women who pass through fire on their way to a richer life. In The Mystery of Mercy Close, her long awaited fifth chapter in the Walsh sisters’ series, Keyes has found a new way to blend reality and fiction, resulting in the most urgent and funny novel of her career. She talks to Cahir O'Doherty about her ridiculously entertaining new book.

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

Quentin Tarantino amazed by ‘Pulp Fiction Kerry Shtyle’ dubbed skit by Irish students - VIDEO (IrishCentral)

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:15:49 PST

Quentin TarantinoWhile chatting with late night host Graham Norton, ‘Django Unchained’ director Quentin Tarantino got a taste of his classic flick ‘Pulp Fiction’ with an Irish slantFilm students from Co Kerry dubbed over a scene from the film with thick Kerry accents, leaving director Tarantino quite impressedCheck out the video below 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

A looks at books - Irish food and fiction (IrishCentral)

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:17:34 PDT

Call of the LarkBy Maura MulliganMaura Mulligan is perhaps best known to the Irish community in New York for her works as a dancer and actor at the Irish Arts Center, and as the founder of the Irish language school An Scoil GaeligeIn Call of the Lark, her atmospheric and heartfelt new memoir, she conjures an Ireland and a way of life that may be as irretrievably lost to us now as AtlantisStarting life as a servant girl in a big house in Ireland, Mulligan sailed to America at the tender age of 17 where she soon answered a higher calling, entering a Franciscan convent to become a nunIn the 1960s the reforms of Vatican II were only very slowly being implemented, and the preeminence of the Church in the life of the Irish was still paramount READ MORE

A look at books - Irish fiction and non-fiction literature to get your teeth in to (IrishCentral)

Fri, 18 May 2012 06:46:01 PDT

The ReckoningBy Jane CaseyJane Casey’s life looks like an audition for the role of first-rate crime writer Born and raised in Dublin, she graduated from Oxford University and Trinity College Dublin, and then worked in London for a time as a book editor until the urge to write her own works eventually became too strongMarrying a criminal barrister in London who specializes in prosecution, her husband’s day to day life is filled with police officers, criminals, reluctant witnesses, judges and juries – basically the entire stock and trade of a crime writers lifeSo if The Reckoning, her second thrilling tour of London’s back streets, is filled with the kind of illuminating details that ground it in reality you’ll know why READ MORE

A look at books- Irish food and fiction (IrishCentral)

Fri, 04 May 2012 06:45:10 PDT

Painted With WordsBy Lara MarloweLara Marlowe is best known as a distinguished foreign correspondent for The Irish Times, but she is equally well known in Ireland for her writings on French art Painted With Words is her luminous new collection of essays on some of the world’s greatest painters“Painting is not done to decorate apartments,” wrote Pablo Picasso “It is an instrument of war against brutality and darkness READ MORE

A look at books - Irish cooking, history and fiction (IrishCentral)

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:15:08 PDT

Irish Traditional CookingBy Darina AllenCan you call yourself Irish if you don’t own at least two Irish cookery books by Darina Allen? Simply put no one else has ever assembled the classic Irish dishes with the range and scope and appreciation for Irish tradition that she hasIn Irish Traditional Cooking Allen has assembled over 300 recipes that are as wholesome and unpretentious and the books title Allen is a seasonal cook, which means she lists dishes that are in tune with the produce on offer year round, which makes this book an especially worthwhile purchase for discerning cooksThis is magical food, prepared and presented in simple step-by-step measures that won’t intimidate READ MORE

Glenn Beck builds his own White House Oval Office -- Still blurring the line between fiction and reality after Fox News (IrishCentral)

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:15:52 PDT

Glenn Beck Oval OfficeFor conservative pundit Glenn Beck blurring the line between reality and fiction has often been an irresistible compulsion That's why some eyebrows were raised when he posted surprising pictures of himself sitting at what appeared to be the presidents desk in the Oval Office this weekendFew doubt that Beck would like to inhabit that office for real, but the just released photos which appear on glennbeckcom actually remind you that it will always be a pipe dream for the pint sized pundit 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

A look at books - top Irish new releases in fiction and history (IrishCentral)

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:33:48 PDT

By: CAHIR O'DOHERTY

First Communion: A Collection Of Modern Irish Stories
By Jack Scoltock

‘Little Miss Sunshine’ Abigail Breslin to star in non-fiction movie ‘The Class Project: How To Kill A Mother’ (IrishCentral)

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:21:06 PDT

By: KARLA RODRIGUEZ

In an attempt to wean herself from roles such as the adorable unconventional pageant girl in “Little Miss Sunshine,” Abigail Breslin will take audiences through her transformation into adult roles in the new film, "The Class Project: How To Kill A Mother: The True Story of Canada's Infamous Bathtub Girls."

When Ireland Fell Silent by Harolyn Enis (IrishCentral)

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:50:10 PDT

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‘Pulp Fiction’ duo Uma Thurman and John Travolta to reunite in ‘The Savages’ (IrishCentral)

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:27:55 PDT

By: EVELYN TIERNAN

1641 massacre of Protestants by Catholics a fiction says experts (IrishCentral)

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:14:43 PST

By: PATRICK O'BRIEN

Oliver Cromwell used it as his excuse to rape and pillage Ireland, but the 1641 ‘massacre’ of Protestants by Catholics during the Irish rebellion likely never happened.

Right decision to cancel Kennedy miniseries -- proves you can't make fiction out of historical fact (IrishCentral)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:55:06 PST

The decision to cancel the Kennedy miniseries comes as no great surprise given that there were fundamental questions about the accuracy of the portrait of the famous familyA few years back CBS were forced to do the same thing with a Ronald Reagan series which greatly traduced his legacy tooThe reality is that you can't really do historical fiction about something that is historical factYou can invent a Ronald Reagan type figure or a Kennedy type family and fictionalize all you want READ MORE

Colum McCann wins 2009 National Book Award for fiction (IrishCentral)

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:38:02 PST

By: Anne Thompson & Kara Rota

Colum McCann’s newest novel, 'Let the Great World Spin,' was announced November 18 as the winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction during a black-tie ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

British press in vicious, fictional story about Susan Boyle 'breakdown' (IrishCentral)

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:59:30 PST

By: NIALL O'DOWD

Story / Susan Boyle's debut album becomes Amazon's largest global pre-order in history / Click here

Roundup of the latest and greatest Irish books (IrishCentral)

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:13:32 PDT

By: TOM DEIGNAN

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Thu, 28 May 2009 09:27:09 PDT

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