*As You Were by Elaine Feeney has been shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize for authors first published in their 40s alongside Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart for Shuggie Bain among others. A psychologist in Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital, she was a finalist in the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2019. It’s a joyous pairing.”*Adults and children alike can get creative and enter a poem or poems into this year’s Trócaire Poetry Ireland Poetry Competition, the deadline for which has been extended to May 27th. *The British Association of Irish Studies Book Prize winner is Erika Hanna for Snapshot Stories: Visuality, Photography, and the Social History of Ireland, 1922-2000 (OUP, 2020). Essay Prize winner was Dexter Govan (Edinburgh) fopr Towards a Religious Understanding of the Orange Order: Belfast 1910 to 1914.

Source: The Irish Times May 20, 2021 12:11 UTC