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Jan 10, 2025 | 
independent.ie | Aingeala Flannery
The winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year on why Heart, Be At Peace is the novel his late mother wanted him to write and why his focus is ‘the huge mass of people that make up the bulk of this country’ Donal Ryan is locked out of his house. Several minutes after our Zoom interview was scheduled to start, he appears suddenly on my computer screen, standing in his back garden, dressed in a black beanie and winter coat. His nose and cheeks are pink from the cold.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
independent.ie | Aingeala Flannery
From her days as a teen goth to hanging out with the late Mic Christopher and partying with Teddy Boys in dive bars, writer Aingeala Flannery looks back on her teenage soundtrackKenny Rogers is the best singer in the world. Better than Kris Kristofferson and Glen Campbell put together. There’s a cassette player in our Ford Cortina and this is the stuff we listen to on our summer holiday, driving up the west coast from Kerry to Donegal.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
independent.ie | Aingeala Flannery
From her days as a teen goth to hanging out with the late Mic Christopher and partying with Teddy Boys in dive bars, writer Aingeala Flannery looks back on her teenage soundtrackKenny Rogers is the best singer in the world. Better than Kris Kristofferson and Glen Campbell put together. There’s a cassette player in our Ford Cortina and this is the stuff we listen to on our summer holiday, driving up the west coast from Kerry to Donegal.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
jaunenglish.com | Aingeala Flannery
I loved Flora and Son with Eve Hewson and Jack Raynor. Eve Hewson is a revelation. The director John Carney makes Dublin look fantastic in it. A great movie. I've just discovered Cian Ducrot from Cork. He is intelligent, mesmeric, melodic, meaningful. He's playing his first big, open-air gig in Dublin's St Anne's Park - beside where I live - next year. If I've anything to do with it, it will be sold out. Aonghus McAnally doing Christy Hennessy was the best gig I've been to in a long time.
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Dec 25, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Sunday Miscellany |Aingeala Flannery |John Toal |Paul Howard
To listen to RTÉ.ie's radio and podcast services, you will need to disable any ad blocking extensions or whitelist this site. Use the arrow keys to skip the audio ahead or backwards by 15 seconds00:00Use the arrow keys to increase and decrease the volumeChoose an option below to share‘Christmas Miscellany’ Leaving this page will stop playback.
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Dec 24, 2023 | 
irishtimes.com | Aingeala Flannery
Fagan’s car park was full. Jan circled twice, around the twinkling Christmas tree and past the inflatable Santa spancelled to the trolley bay, before she mounted the kerb, engaged the handbrake and waited for a free space. A fringe of blue LEDs ran the length of the supermarket and every glass surface; all the windows and doors were covered in a pox of fake snow. Christmas was getting more American by the year. At the entrance, she’d passed a hoarding that said Happy Holidays.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Sunday Miscellany |Aingeala Flannery |John Toal |Paul Howard
To listen to RTÉ.ie's radio and podcast services, you will need to disable any ad blocking extensions or whitelist this site. Use the arrow keys to skip the audio ahead or backwards by 15 seconds45:36Use the arrow keys to increase and decrease the volumeChoose an option below to share‘Sunday Miscellany’ Leaving this page will stop playback.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Sunday Miscellany |Aingeala Flannery |John Toal |Paul Howard
To listen to RTÉ.ie's radio and podcast services, you will need to disable any ad blocking extensions or whitelist this site. Use the arrow keys to skip the audio ahead or backwards by 15 seconds07:54Use the arrow keys to increase and decrease the volumeChoose an option below to share‘Night Divine, by Paul Howard’ Leaving this page will stop playback. Would you like to: Your browser does not support HTML5 VideoYour video will start in
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
rte.ie | Sunday Miscellany |Aingeala Flannery |John Toal |Paul Howard
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Jul 29, 2023 | 
independent.ie | Aingeala Flannery
Cancelled decades before cancel culture became a thing, she never gave up fighting injustice and calling out bullshit the rest of us just turned a blind eye toThe first time I saw Sinéad O’Connor in the flesh was in 1989, on a day heavy and grey as concrete. I was bunking off college with my friends in a booth by the fire in Bewley’s on Westmoreland Street, smoking Old Holborn and making a mug of milky coffee last the afternoon. And suddenly, there she was. Sinéad.
