Kevin Barry

The sun is shining (occasionally), the beer gardens are open, and language students and tourists alike are still bewildered by the idea of not getting their change back when paying their bus fare. Welcome to the Irish summer! Because we are…

“It is a tremendously Hibernian dilemma—a broken family, lost love, all the melancholy rest of it—and a Hibernian easement for it is suggested: fuck it, we’ll go for an old drink.” There is perhaps no better conspectus or cure for the…

Dark Lies the Island marks a first-time pairing of director Ian Fitzgibbon (Death of a Superhero, Moone Boy) and writer Kevin Barry (City of Bohane, Beatlebone) resulting in a pitch-black and utterly unique 90 minutes. The film’s focus…

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control. Joan Didion News Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold If you haven't watched it yet be sure to check out the recently released documentary about the life of…

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future... And all the lastest scoops are present in the Lit Review Events The IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival starts this Thursday (6th October) with events,…

Here, where decades of diggers' tracks fill with murky puddles, here, your phone fails to find a signal. So be sure to check the Lit Review before you go. Events Alicia Byrne Keane, Sian Conway and Ailish Kerr will be performing…

Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. When weren't getting together of a Sunday…

This dry night, nothing unusual About the clip,clop, casual Iron of his shoes as he stamps death Like a mint on the innocent coinage of the earth. It must be Lit Review time again. Events This Sunday marks the beginning of the…

In his latest novel, Man Booker winner Julian Barnes charts the creative life and inner turmoil of Dimitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich's career polarises opinion, partially due to his association with the Communist Party in Russia. The…

Kevin Barry is one of my favourite writers, so I was suitably excited about this episode. Meet your heroes, that's what I say. He's a lovely, brilliant and funny man and I genuinely would have happily sat talking to him for many more hours.…