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Libraries reopen for browsing and borrowing Published: Tuesday, 11 May 2021 12:24
As part of the further easing of Covid-19 restrictions, libraries across the region have reopened for browsing and borrowing.
The Call & Collect service operated by the library staff during lockdown will also continue for those who wish to call or email, and collect a bag of books.
Darina Molloy from the Mayo County Library in Castlebar told Midwest Radio that they re delighted to welcome back readers in person...
At the start of the week the queues to secure appointments with hairdressers and beauticians were extensive throughout the region, with these services re-opening to customers for the first time this year, on Monday last. A few days down the line, and many…
Big Girl Small Town with the best synopsis ever – “
Milkman meets Derry Girls. A cracking read’ – which is proudly emblazoned on the Irish version of the cover. Majella is one of those outliers – ignored by most people, and reasonably content to potter on with her life. She lives with her
alcoholic mother, works in the local chipper, and obsesses over the lives of Bobby, Sue Ellen, and Pam in her wall-to-wall Dallas reruns. She keeps herself to herself, has no friends and no boyfriend, and she thinks her life is the better for it. But when her grandmother dies and the will reveals a couple of surprises, Majella soon finds that she is the object of everyone’s curiosity. Initially, she hates the attention, but she soon realises that maybe she can change her life for the better. Reminiscent of Roddy Doyle’s dialogue-driven work, this is a really fantastic debut novel from an author we’ll definitely be watching out for.
Selected by David Wheatley
In the fourth installment of The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, curated by 2008 Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize-winner David Wheatley, five Irish poets – the experimental Trevor Joyce, religious celebrant Aidan Mathews, elegist Peter McDonald, modern poet Ailbhe Darcy, and Irish speaker Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh – receive their official publication debut among North American readers.
In the anthology’s preface, Wheatley notes that despite his chosen poets’ regional variance and differences in age (37 years separate Joyce, the eldest poet in the collection, and Ní Ghearbhuigh, the youngest), his selection takes care to evade “questions of generational groups and territoriality to explore a series of related but distinct issues” in each of the five bodies of work. In this he is successful: the anthology is a latticework of themes, from troubled love, as seen in Joyce’s defiant “I will not die for you” and the raw honesty of Ní Ghearbhuigh