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We thank our artists

We thank our artists

15 June 21
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Irish fiction is currently experiencing a new golden age, one in which new writers are coming forward to ask urgent questions. For this Cois Coiribe issue, we wanted to celebrate the work of three of those writers, bringing previously unpublished stories by them to our readers.

Irish fiction is currently experiencing a new golden age, one in which new writers are coming forward to ask urgent questions. What does it mean to live in Ireland now? How can we learn from (or, if necessary escape) the past? And what forms of writing can we invent to capture what it means to be alive today?  This work is being created across the island, but much of it is being driven by writers who are either from Galway or closely connected with our region. For this special issue, we wanted to celebrate the work of three of those writers, bringing previously unpublished stories by them to our readers.

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Tanya Farrelly, author and current Writer-in-Residence at NUI Galway

Tanya Farrelly is the Arts Council/NUI Galway Writer in Residence for 2021. A festival director and author, she has published short fiction with Arlen House (her latest collection, Nobody Needs to Know, is due from them soon). She has also written the novels The Girl Behind the Lens and When Your Eyes Close, thrillers that give us new ways to see familiar Irish settings and themes.

Read Tanya’s piece here.

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Elaine Feeney is an Irish poet, novelist, and playwright.

Elaine Feeney is a poet and novelist. She teaches Creative Writing here at NUI Galway and in St Jarlath’s College in Tuam. She was also centrally involved in the Tuam Oral History project. Her debut novel As You Were has just been published to great acclaim. The novel has already won the Kate O’Brien Award 2021, and has been shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize for authors first published in their 40s.

Read Elaine’s piece here.

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Deirdre Sullivan is a writer and teacher from Galway.

Deirdre Sullivan is a graduate of the university and is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed writers for children and young adults. Her book Savage Her Reply has just been named the Children’s Books Ireland ‘book of the year’  – and her first collection of stories for adults, I Want to Know that I Will Be Okay, has just been published.

Read Deirdre’s piece here.

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Prof Patrick Lonergan, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, NUI Galway

In their different ways, these are three genuinely inspirational writers, breaking down the boundaries that seek to limit how books are written and what their subjects should be. Some readers will already know these authors’ works well; others will be encountering them for the first time. Either way, we hope you enjoy the opportunity to savour their new stories.

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