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Maggie O’Farrell and Elaine Feeney win 2021 Dalkey Literary Awards

The Irish Times 19 Jun 2021

The award is a sort of homecoming for O’Farrell, whose father is from Dalkey ... about family, love and grief, it is a totally immersive novel ... Feeney said ... The other books shortlisted for Novel of the Year were Actress by Anne Enright; Apeirogon by Colum McCann; Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan; The Weight of Love by Hilary Fannin; and Love by Roddy Doyle.

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Staff who refuse the Covid jab cannot be kept out of workplace

Irish Independent 12 Jun 2021

Staff will be able to return to the workplace even if they refuse the Covid vaccine – and won’t have to tell their employer or colleagues whether they’ve received the jab, according to legal experts ... Donal Hamilton, senior associate at McCann FitzGerald, points to government guidance on vaccination and the return to work ... Daily Update Newsletter.

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Bruising, nosebleeds and heavy periods in women – the symptoms of an underdiagnosed inherited disease that affects one in every 1000 Irish people

Irish Independent 24 May 2021

So imagine how Donal McCann’s parents must have felt, when shortly after his birth in 1991, he began bleeding from his mouth and nose and was taken to the neonatal unit where he spent the first week of his life ... Donal, who is dad to 18-month-old daughter Darcy, says there is a ...

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James Joyce’s House of the Dead is dying

Irish Independent 09 May 2021

We have disgraced ourselves once again ... It recreated in precise detail the culinary delights the spinster sisters, the Misses Morkans, provided for their guests on the eve of the Epiphany in The Dead, also captured most famously by John Huston’s magical film of the same name, starring Donal McCann and Anjelica Huston among its superlative cast ... .

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Shortlists for Dalkey Literary Awards 2021 revealed

The Irish Times 16 Apr 2021

The field for the €20,000 Novel of the Year award includes Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, and Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan, winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year ... Apeirogon by Colum McCann. Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan.

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The great Irish books you may never heard of

The Irish Times 20 Mar 2021

Anakana Schofield’s latest novel is Bina Donal Ryan . ... Donal Ryan’s latest novel is Strange Flowers Elaine Feeney .. Marina by Aoibheann McCann (2018). Marina by Aoibheann McCann (2018). “The first time I met him was at the bottom of the sea,” opens chapter one of Aoibheann McCann’s original short novel, Marina.

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The great Irish books you may never have heard of

The Irish Times 20 Mar 2021

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Antrim withstand Kerry fightback to claim first Joe McDonagh Cup win

RTE 13 Dec 2020

... Michael Bradley (0-01); Daniel McCloskey, Conor McCann (0-01), Ciaran Clarke (0-11, 0-08f) ... Conal Cunning (0-02) for McCloskey h/t, Neil McManus (0-04, 0-02f, 0-01 65) for Molloy 45, Donal Nugent for McCann 45, Conor Johnston for Bradley 64, Aodhan O'Brien for McKenna 70.

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Abbey initiative is a welcome voice in the dark during this winter of the pandemic

Irish Independent 10 Dec 2020

I just happened upon it the other day – my Penguin Modern Classics edition of James Joyce’s Dubliners ... I love Dubliners ... could you ever forget the brilliance of a young Donal McCann in the role of Gabriel Conroy? ... A personal performance? Yes, that’s right, and it comes courtesy of the latest brilliant initiative from the Abbey Theatre ... Read More ... .

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My disinclination to write came from the need to recover from one single atrocious event. The murder of my sister Siobhan

Irish Independent 29 Nov 2020

It has been 14 years since I've written for this newspaper ... From Michael Hartnett, the Limerick poet, to the wonderful actor Donal McCann, I met quite a few. If there was light, there was dark too ... Expand. Close ... /. Facebook Twitter Email Whatsapp. .

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Antrim safely through to Joe McDonagh Cup final after beating Meath

RTE 28 Nov 2020

... Bradley (0-08); Ciaran Clarke (0-12, 0-10f), Conor McCann (0-02), Daniel McCloskey (1-00) ... Damon McMullan (0-01) for Walsh (45), Donal Nugent (0-01) for McCann (45), Nicky McKeague (0-02) for McKenna (50), Eoin O'Neill for McCloskey (60), Conor Johnston for McGarry (64).

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Classical reviews: Bruckner, Beethoven and Chopin

The Independent 11 Nov 2020

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Academy of St ...

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Gatekeeper turns poacher as critic Sarah Gilmartin’s debut novel is announced

The Irish Times 30 Oct 2020

Gatekeeper turns poacher next year when Sarah Gilmartin, who has been reviewing debut fiction for The Irish Times since 2013, publishes her own debut novel, Dinner Party ... Macaulay said ... * ... Taking part are John Banville; Dermot Bolger; Emma Donoghue ; Roddy Doyle; Michelle Gallen; Carlo Gébler; Sinéad Gleeson; Colum McCann; Liz Nugent; and Donal Ryan ... .

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Writers dead against hostel decision for James Joyce house at Usher's Island

The Times/The Sunday Times 18 Oct 2020

It was the location for a 1987 film based on the story, directed by John Huston and starring his daughter Anjelica Huston alongside Donal McCann ... .

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Screen revival: '70s Troubles play selected for DVD showcase

Belfast Telegraph 16 Oct 2020

Written by actor and screenwriter Colin Welland, who later won an Academy Award for Chariots of Fire, the drama starred Donal McCann in the leading role. In a review of the BFI collection, Robert Hanks said. "The acting is wonderful, especially by Donal McCann and Brenda Fricker as Danny." ... .