Martin Doyle
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Books Editor, The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen (Merrion Press); ex-extra, Father Ted
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Why I wrote Dirty Linen: recording the toll the Troubles took on my parish, the long tail of trauma. How faint a trace our commonplace atrocities leave on the historical record and national consciousness, yet how indelibly they mark the lives left behind.
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God, Craig David and The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Timetable
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Hunter S Thompson to Anthony Burgess- I love this so much I use it as a model for all my correspondence with contributors
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I just took a phone call from a British writer plugging his book. His opening gambit was: "I'm ringing from the mainland." I just checked the time and it's 2019.
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Dirty Linen: What’s that? What was it like growing up in the North during the Troubles? How long have you got? A 25-minute read teasing out threads of class, sectarianism and violence, with some light relief too, because who wants to read all that, right?
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So I asked Kevin McAleer and Brian Behan in 96 what St Patrick's Day meant to them Kevin's answer still cracks me up
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Three of my neighbours, Barry, Declan and Joe O’Dowd, were murdered by the UVF on January 4th, 1976. This is their story and that of their traumatised family. One timeline shows how the Troubles hit my own parish, Tullylish; another the toll one gun took.
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I’ve always been conscious of a couple of contronyms without knowing the actual term. Turns out there are lots
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What shocking and sickening news to wake up to. Rest In Peace, Lyra. A brilliant journalist murdered by dissident republican terrorists in Derry last night just doing her job. And a hugely promising writer
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Colin Davidson completed his portrait of Seamus Heaney in May 2013. In June, ahead of September’s official unveiling, and on a whim, he put the painting in his car and drove it to the poet’s home in Dublin. Otherwise, this treasured photograph would never have been taken....
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Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP
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Harpo Marx and Brendan Behan, in a Harpo wig, at a party. Photo: Getty
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THREAD: An ad hoc anthology of Irish short stories by Kevin Barry, Danielle McLaughlin, Colin Barrett, Sara Baume, Paul McVeigh, Lucy Caldwell, Donal Ryan, Anakana Schofield, Thomas Morris*, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Philip McCann, Sally Rooney, David Park, Jess Kidd, Kit de Waal & more
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“You’re not worth the full of your arse of boiled snow.” A Q&A with Adrian Dunbar from 1996
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Hours after this photo was taken, 28 years ago today, Gerard (22) and Rory 18) Cairns were murdered by the UVF at their home in Bleary in front of their sister Róisín on her 11th birthday. I watched my cousin Lisa’s harrowing interviews with the surviving family yesterday. 1/2
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On 21st anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, at a time when so many British politicians show contemptuous disregard for peace & people in the North, it’s well to remember one of the good ones, Mo Mowlam. Public interview, Hammersmith Irish Centre 2002. Photo: Malcolm McNally
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Samuel Beckett down in the dumps. Can’t find a photo credit
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I’m writing a book, building on the essays Dirty Linen & A Ghost Estate and an Empty Grave, both linked to here. Thanks to everyone who has spoken to me already. I hope I can do justice to their stories and tell some truths about the Troubles
@MerrionPress
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Kevin Barry on the winter solstice - You should find a high place to mark the solstice today. We all deserve to put ourselves at a lofty remove from the drone of the everyday and the screeching of the commerce and the dim white noise of the electronica.
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John Hume has died - the greatest Irish politician of my lifetime. May he rest in peace
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Exceptional writing: do read it -“I had to sacrifice everything to keep this body ticking over – giving up things I didn’t even know I wanted...My uterus still decorates for an inhabitant every month, and still tears down the walls when none ever comes”
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Laurel and Hardy, Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire 1953. Source: Fintan Tandy on FB, curator of a great stream of Dublin images
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Weather in north Antrim today reminds me of this gem: Dublin editor stopped by PSNI for speeding. Cop: What if there was Mr Fog? Ed: I'd have put on Mr Brakes. Cop [gruffly]: I said mist or fog 😬
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This one is personal for all the writers who contributed to it, and for me pulling it together. Some were lucky enough to know John Hume but we all know how much we owe him
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The late Eavan Boland has posthumously won the Costa Poetry Award for her final collection, The Historians, described by the judges as having “some of the finest lines of poetry written this century”.
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Genuinely laughed out loud
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“Nothing is as serious as funny. And no achievement is higher than innocent laughter.” Frank Cottrell-Boyce on the under-appreciation of humour in fiction, eg Richmal Crompton’s Just William
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Shocking news. A terrible tragedy. My heart goes out to Eileen’s daughter Nadia. Eileen was a fearless and forthright critic and a great champion of literature, particularly in translation
via
@IrishTimes
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Claire Keegan wins the Irish Novel of the Year Award for the excellent Small Things Like These at Listowel Writers Week. Congratulations
@CKeeganFiction
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Actor turned journalist
@caitrionambalfe
interviews author Paul Lynch about his award winning Irish Famine novel
Outlander star Caitriona Balfe talks with Paul Lynch about ‘Grace’
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Jealous of colleague's out of office message: I am on annual leave. I will read one email from each sender when I return. If you send me multiple emails, I will randomly delete them until only one remains. Choose wisely. Please note that you have already sent me one email. ;-)
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There truly is a festival for everything these days. The West Cork Literary Festival will surely have its hands full topping this cultural highlight. “This popular undertaking of endurance" may also be the euphemism we have all been waiting for.
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Booker Prize 2023: Four Irish writers make longlist - congratulations to Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray, who join nine other authors in the running for the award. Surprised not to see Claire Kilroy, Michael Magee & Anne Enright
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If you only read one thing today, read this. My colleague
@wattersonjohnny
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Congratulations to Kevin Barry, whose Night Boat to Tangier has been longlisted for
#BookerPrize2019
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@TheBookerPrizes
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Congratulations
@KennedyLoulou
on John McGahern Prize for debut Irish fiction – Colm Tóibín judges short story collection The End of the World is a Cul de Sac best 2021 debut. Read what he had to say and Louise’s interview with Prof Frank Shovlin
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Dirty Linen is either the bestselling book in Hodges Figgis or one of the kids has been rearranging the shelves
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Congratulations to Maggie O’Farrell, who has won this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for Hamnet
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@IrishTimes
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Dirty Linen, with this fabulous cover designed by Fiachra McCarthy, is published on October 19th and is available to pre-order now from and booksellers. Very grateful for the endorsements from these writers whose own works have meant such a lot to me.
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“We terrified the whole population. It was wrong." The troops even had a sweepstake of £200 for the "first kill". One soldier shot a rioting youth in the back then constantly rang hospital where the boy was treated. He was desperate for him to die so he could claim his money
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"We went into Ballymurphy,..and saw the whole area as being against us. We were at war. We terrified the whole population. It was wrong. But it seemed right at the time." The troops even had a sweepstake of 200 pounds for the "first kill"
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Proud to succeed figures such as Terence de Vere White, Brian Fallon, John Banville, Caroline Walsh and
@fotoole
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@IrishTimes
Books Editor
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James Connolly addresses a
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Congratulations to Anna Burns, who has won the €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award 2020 for Milkman via
@IrishTimesBooks
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#UnquietGraves
was a powerful reminder of how British security forces collaborated with loyalist paramilitaries to kill Catholics in the 70s. Here, British journalist Ian Cobain spells out in great detail how that continued in the 80s and 90s
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Dublin editor stopped by PSNI for speeding. Cop: What if there was Mr Fog? Ed: I'd have put on Mr Brakes. Cop [gruffly]: I said mist or fog🤣
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That feeling when you fork out over €300 for your kid’s school books and call a week later to be told half are still not in stock and there is no guarantee they will be by the start of term. What an overpriced, inefficient shambles of a system. An unnecessary burden on parents.
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RIP Ivan Cooper: “A working class Protestant who saw a common injustice & inequality that had taken root in Protestant & Catholic communities, he dedicated his life to fighting it.
few have contributed as much to peace and equality on this island than Ivan
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Vegetable roll for breakfast. A Northern delicacy. Which as the name suggests is 99% beef, 1% leek, onion and herbs.
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Acclaimed Connemara writer Tim Robinson dies at 85 from coronavirus, a fortnight after his wife Mairead. RIP via
@IrishTimesBooks
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