SOURCE: IRISH TIMES
In Saturday’s Irish Times, Jane Coyle talks to Liam Browne and Seán Doran, the creators of Ulysses: A European Odyssey, which will take place across 18 cities, one for each of Joyce’s book’s 18 episodes. Deirdre Falvey taks to playwright Elaine Murphy about her adaptation of Maeve Binchy’s Circle of Friends. Micheál Smith, author of UDR Declassified, on the stunning level of collusion between the regiment and loyalists revealed by declassified files.
Reviews are Oliver Farry on The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and China by Kevin Rudd; Mia Levitin on None of This Is Serious by Catherine Prasifka; Rick O’Shea on All Along the Echo by Danny Denton; Wendy Erskine on This Woman’s Work by Kim Gordon & Sinead Gleeson; Julia Kelly on The Passenger: Ireland; Éilís Ní Dhuibhn on In Love by Amy Bloom ; Sally Hayden on Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin; Una Mannion on Memphis by Tara M Stringfellow; John Self on Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary by John Walsh and The Lives of the Saints by Sebastian Barry; Sarah Gilmartin on Drift by Caryl Lewis; and Rónán Hession on the best new fiction in translation.
This weekend’s Irish Times Eason book offer is Snowflake by Louise Nealon, just €4.99 when you buy the newspaper, a saving of €6.