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Denny Murphy sat firmly into his spot on the bench-seating that lined the Luas carriage and curled his head towards the glass of the window. He didn’t care that the tram was packed and that there were probably older people and women…
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HeadStuff Picks | Books of the Year 2017
We have asked some of Ireland's top literary types to give us their top picks for Books of the Year 2017. Did we miss any of your favourites? Let us know in the comments.
Let's get stuck in:
Here are the HeadStuff Books of the Year 2017…
My Thing About December…
They tell you that Christmas phobia is like a holiday phobia that stems from ‘some early childhood Christmas related trauma’ but your early childhood Christmases were fine. They were better than fine, they were idyllic, magical, wondrous…
The HeadStuff Best Books of 2016
Every year I view this list as some kind of challenge – it would be so easy just to pick my ten best writing friends and cajole them into contributing but I really don’t think that that would represent the huge HUGE array of fantastic books…
Best Books 2015: Some of Ireland’s Best Writers Pick Their Favourite Books of the Year
2015 was indeed a bumper year for books, so when asked to compile a list of the best books of 2015 I went with the lovely tradition we started last year on HeadStuff and asked a broad selection of Ireland's top writers and ‘bookish folk’…
Was Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, a feminist writer?
I first read Gone with the Wind when I was ten years of age. It was a Christmas present from my mother, which may have seemed bizarre at the time given that I wasn’t allowed stay up to watch Dallas on a Saturday night until some years…
Why I’m Still Nostalgic for Roseanne
I watched a lot more TV when I was younger.
Mostly because I was constantly grounded over something or other, but also because back then I’d no children to distract me and no book to be writing. Probably the biggest reason though, was…
The Best Books of 2014 as Chosen by Some of Your Favourite Writers
When given the task of picking the best books of 2014 I didn’t realise how vast and daunting a task it would turn out to be… So I scratched my head for a minute and then decided to enlist the help of some experts… So with huge gratitude to…
Electric Picnic 2014 | 10 | Sinead O’Connor
No one’s woman…
I was going to call this piece ‘Nothing Compares…' but after a bit of thought I knocked that idea on the head. Not because it’s the most obvious title in the world, but well, it depends on what your comparison is…
Electric Picnic 2014 | 1 | Outkast
What’s cooler than being cool?
My dad was very proud of the fact that he had the inside track on what the 2000 Creamfields festival was all about. 'I’m telling you,' he said gravely, ‘they’re not bands, they’re guys with big radios... no…