It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway through Reading Ireland Month 2024!
A horrendous cough and chest infection have meant that I am falling behind slightly on posts, but I’m hoping to pick things up again next week with a few reviews and a post for Dewithon ’24.
Support for this years Reading Ireland Month has been great so far, with almost 50 posts since we kicked off a few weeks ago. Thanks to everyone who has joined in. You can see links to all the reviews on my pinned post here, and if your post hasn’t been included, please do let me know in the comments.
it’s been a great week for Irish literature and culture with Anne Enright winning the Writer’s Prize (formerly the Rathbones Prize) for The Wren, The Wren while Paul Murray won the £30,000 Nero Gold prize for The Bee Sting, a comic family saga set in rural Ireland.
And of course, it would be remiss not to mention Cillian Murphy’s fantastic Oscar win for his role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
It has also just been announced that his next project will be Steve, adapted from Max Porter’s 2023 novel Shy. The storyline will focus on the life of its eponymous headteacher (Murphy) over a span of 24 hours. This will be the second time he has collaborated with Porter, having starred in the stage adaptation of Grief is the Thing With Feathers.
Looking forward to the final two weeks of Reading Ireland Month. I hope you all have a great St Patrick’s Day and raise a glass to health and happiness!