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Nov 8, 2024 | 
image.ie | Lucy Byrne |Sarah Gill
As the month stretches out in front of us, the IMAGE staffers share their entertainment agenda. From cinema trips to see the new Paul Mescal film and nail appointments to get Business of Beauty Awards ready, to weekends away, Irish gigs, and long awaited dinner reservations — here’s what we’re getting up to this November. Amber O’Shea, Social Media Manager This month, I just finished Intermezzo by Sally Rooney and Bodies by Christine Anne Foley.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
booksirelandmagazine.com | Let’s Dance |Lucy Byrne
It’s Irish Book Week and all around the country bookshops are hosting events, readings, signings and more. Below you can find some of the new releases this month—but you can also search our database First Flush all the way back to 2021 where you can see all Irish-authored, Irish-interest and Irish-published books. Find your book at your local bookshop and support the work of our fantastic booksellers around Ireland—who offer a personal and online service to rival the commercial juggernauts.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
booksirelandmagazine.com | Let’s Dance |Lucy Byrne |Ruby Eastwood
by Ruby EastwoodLet’s Dance is a study of claustrophobia. Each of the stories in the collection enters the feeling from a different angle. The kind of entrapment Lucy Sweeney Byrne so unflinchingly describes is specifically feminine and modern.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Lucy Byrne
Before I got into writing, I never thought of myself as a particularly resilient person. Rather, I considered myself to be shy, over-sensitive. I’d always been the type of person to take the thread of some throwaway comment, made in jest, and to weave it, slowly over weeks and years, into a shroud, within which I could wrap my humiliating personality, along with all of my many, obsessed-over social and professional faux pas.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.co.nz | Lucy Byrne
Source: City of LiverpoolA project which helps bring a Liverpool community together, is set to bloom again. The Flower Streets project is a celebration of Kirkdale and its residents, and has already resulted in nine, large-scale murals on the gable end of houses – each one representing the namesake flowers of each street. The artworks are a celebration of the community and aim to rejuvenate the area, as well as addressing the issue of anti-social behaviour.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
theguideliverpool.com | Lucy Byrne |Chris Grundy
The Flower Streets project has already transformed the neighbourhood with nine large-scale murals on the gable end of houses, each illustrating the flower after which the street is named. The artworks are a celebration of the community and aim to rejuvenate the area, as well as addressing the issue of anti-social behaviour. And now two more incredible pieces of work are to be added to the collection.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
evoke.ie | Emma Costigan |Jordan Larmour |Lucy Byrne
Here we go again! The Irish rugby squad are currently preparing to face their first test against South Africa for their 2024 Summer Tour. The boys in green smashed their opponents in the Six Nations earlier this year, so no doubt they'll do us proud once more. Here's what you need to know about the WAGs rooting for Ireland:Garry is married to his childhood sweetheart Ellen Beirne. The couple said 'I do' at Virginia Park Lodge in Cavan in June 2023.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
evoke.ie | Emma Costigan |Jordan Larmour |Lucy Byrne
Here we go again! The Irish rugby squad are currently preparing to fly to South Africa for their 2024 Summer Tour. The boys in green smashed their opponents in the Six Nations earlier this year, so no doubt they'll do is proud once more. Here's what you need to know about the WAGs rooting for Ireland:Garry is married to his childhood sweetheart Ellen Beirne. The couple said 'I do' at Virginia Park Lodge in Cavan in June 2023. The Irish rugby star previously gushed to EVOKE: 'Ellen is the best.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
evoke.ie | Emma Costigan |Jordan Larmour |Lucy Byrne
Here we go again! The Irish rugby squad are currently preparing to fly to South Africa for their 2024 Summer Tour. The boys in green smashed their opponents in the Six Nations earlier this year, so no doubt they'll do is proud once more. Here's what you need to know about the WAGs rooting for Ireland:Garry is married to his childhood sweetheart Ellen Beirne. The couple said 'I do' at Virginia Park Lodge in Cavan in June 2023. The Irish rugby star previously gushed to EVOKE: 'Ellen is the best.
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May 31, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Lucy Byrne
All Thing Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess Author: Becca RothfeldISBN-13: 9781250849915Publisher: ViragoGuideline Price: £15Towards the end of All Things Are Too Small, Becca’s Rothfeld’s defence of maximalism, she reproduces a quotation that she has “so thoroughly digested and metabolised” that it is now an essential fixture of her “mental repertoire”. “I love a demystified thing inordinately.”Yes, I thought, that’s it.
