Elaine Feeney

Dec 20, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Elaine Feeney

Ever since my aunt took me to a Joan Miró exhibition at Dublin’s National Gallery of Ireland when I was sixteen, I’ve been a regular visitor. On my last trip, the day’s drizzle had prompted a sea of umbrellas as I walked through Trinity College, past the cricket pavilion, towards the back gate. There, a boy lay in a sleeping bag by a damp wall, tracking a novel with his index finger. I exited the grounds and crossed Clare Street to the Gallery’s entrance.

Jan 22, 2024 | rte.ie | Elaine Feeney |Harvill Secker

How To Build A Boat by Elaine Feeney (2023), published by Harvill SeckerWhat it's about? Neurodivergent thirteen-year-old Jamie O'Neill wants to build a perpetual motion machine so that he can reconnect with his mother who died giving birth to him. His mission ends up transforming the lives of his teachers and, in the process, that of a community too. Feeney's own son provided the genesis for the novel. Why you should read it?

Dec 22, 2023 | hazlitt.net | Elaine Feeney |Amos Barshad |Georg Barkas |Anne T. Donahue

Drinking with my sister, and after she was gone. Relearning to walk—and, more importantly, to see. What we learn from a scientific intimacy is more than just another way of looking at the term “intimacy” itself but to look away from that obscure, meaningless construct of intimacy as merely being close to one another. We know the orcas are right to sink yachts but we can’t help but betray our infatuation with a certain lifestyle. What were we obsessed with, invested in and plagued by in 2023?

Dec 21, 2023 | independent.ie | Elaine Feeney

As she prepares to spend her first Christmas without her young son, the startling sight of McCarthy’s runaway mare sends Aoife hurtling out into the snow in search of the troubled creatureA fall of snow dusted McCarthy’s field, until only darkened scraws of thistle tops disrupted the covering. On it went, a white eddying moving eastwards and capping the black silage bales by the red gate.

Nov 27, 2023 | rte.ie | Elaine Feeney

Published • 14:04 • Monday, 27 Nov 2023 Rick O'Shea, RTÉ Gold presenter and curator of the Rick O’Shea Book Club ‘Old God’s Time’ by Sebastian Barry ‘Strange Sally Diamond’ by Liz Nugent 'Prophet Song' by Paul Lynch 'Close To Home' by Michael Magee ‘This Plague Of Souls’ by Mike McCormack ‘Juno Loves Legs’ by Karl Geary ‘In Ascension’ by ‘Martin MacInnes Edel Coffey, author and books editor with The Gloss 'Prophet Song' by Paul Lynch 'Strange Sally Diamond' by Liz Nugent 'How To Build A Boat'...