Donal Ryan
In brief: Harlem Shuffle; Two Brothers; The Queen of Dirt Island – reviews
Colson Whitehead on a heist gone wrong; a revisionary study of the footballing Charltons; and Donal Wilson’s latest fictional vignette of small-town Ireland
Ben East
21, Aug, 2022 @4:00 PM
From a Low and Quiet Sea review – lyrical staging of Donal Ryan’s novel
In a series of monologues, four characters in a small Irish town try to make their peace with painful pasts
Helen Meany
18, Jul, 2022 @11:00 AM
Take risks and tell the truth: how to write a great short story
Drawing on writers from Anton Chekhov to Kit de Waal, Donal Ryan explores the art of writing short fiction. Plus Chris Power on the best books for budding short story writers
Donal Ryan
14, Aug, 2021 @8:00 AM
The Art of the Glimpse edited by Sinead Gleeson review – 100 Irish short stories
A gloriously varied collection that gives voice to the forgotten and overlooked as well as the famous and familiar
Eithne Farry
13, Nov, 2020 @9:00 AM
Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan review – a compassionate tale of homecoming
Five years after she went missing, a woman returns to rural Tipperary in a novel that explores all forms of love
Beejay Silcox
02, Sep, 2020 @8:00 AM
In brief: Strange Flowers; The Shadow King; The System – review
An explosive Tipperary-set thriller, a Booker-longlisted tale of women at war in Ethiopia, and a fascinating ‘biography’ of the internet
Ben East
16, Aug, 2020 @9:30 AM
Donal Ryan on County Tipperary: 'My childhood was filled with vampires and ghosts'
The Costa-nominated novelist remembers his sheltered childhood in Newtown, among a family that valued books – even the dangerous ones
Donal Ryan
22, Dec, 2018 @11:00 AM
From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan review – waves of compassion and anger
The lives of a Syrian refugee, a heartbroken carer and a crooked moneyman cross with poignant results
John Boyne
30, Mar, 2018 @6:30 AM
From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan – review
The nature of empathy connects the stories of three men in this hard-hitting, uplifting novel
Alice O'Keeffe
11, Mar, 2018 @9:00 AM
Donal Ryan: ‘Writing is like being gloriously drunk, and it’s always followed by a hangover of guilt’
The books interview: The award-winning author made headlines when he went back to his day job in the civil service. He talks about seeing ghosts and almost giving up writing
Justine Jordan
09, Mar, 2018 @12:00 PM
Book reviews roundup: Beryl Bainbridge; All We Shall Know; The Wonder
What the critics thought of Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means by Brendan King; Donal Ryan’s All We Shall Know and The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
30, Sep, 2016 @5:00 PM
All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan review – a modern-day Irish tragedy
This is an extraordinary portrait of adultery, loneliness and betrayal in a closed small town community
John Burnside
22, Sep, 2016 @8:00 AM
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