Apr 28, 2021
At the age of 20, three months after meeting James Joyce, Nora Barnacle left everything she knew behind to share the adventure of a lifetime with him.
She was a maid in a Dublin hotel when they met, and he was a clever and ambitious young man who wanted to be a writer.
In 1904, they shipped out for mainland Europe, at...
Apr 15, 2021
“One of the brilliant things about books is that you can buy a book by the very best writers and if it still costs a tenner – it doesn’t cost any more than bad writing,” says Rónán Hession.
He's author of the 2021 One Dublin One Book choice Leonard and Hungry Paul. It's a quirky, thoughtful novel which makes...