Joanne Hayden |
4 years ago
Literary fiction; Dermot Healy: TheCollected Short Stories; Edited by Keith Hopper and Neil Murphy; Dalkey Archive Press, €15
Literary fiction; Dermot Healy: TheCollected Short Stories; Edited by Keith Hopper and Neil Murphy; Dalkey Archive Press, €15
Visually arresting, Shibboleth revolves around the contentious building of a ‘peace wall’
Fiction: The Dust that Falls From Dreams. By Louis de Bernières. Harvill Secker, €19. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden
fiction: Up Against the Night. By Justin Cartwright. Bloomsbury, €17.25.
Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest. By Oscar Wilde. Directed by Kate Canning. Smock Alley Theatre until August 22. Rating: ***.
American author Emily Lockhart says that young adults embrace the experimentation in her bestselling family saga, We Were Liars
Theatre: The Importance of Being Honest. By Billie Traynor. Directed by Liam Halligan. Bewley’s Café Theatre @ Powerscourt until July 25. Rating 3/5
biography: Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of an Irish Whore. By Julie Peakman. Quercus, €19. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden.
Non-fiction: The House of Hidden Mothers. By Meera Syal. Doubleday, €25.50. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden.
Theatre: The Shadow of a Gunman. By Sean O’Casey. Directed by Wayne Jordan. Abbey Theatre until August 1. Rating ****. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden
Memoir: Dancing In The DarkMy Struggle: Book FourBy Karl Ove Knausgård. Harvill Secker, €19.
Theatre: In On It. Written by Daniel MacIvor. Smock Alley, Dublin. Until April 25th. Rating ***.
Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Directed by Gavin Quinn. Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Runs until March 28. Rating: ***. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden.
Munich Airport. By Greg Baxter. Penguin, €17. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden.