Sue Leonard
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Aug 15, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Irish Examiner
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- Jul 17, 2026
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Ripe for change as older narrator yearns for belonging (opens the original)
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Back in 2020, anxious to escape from post-Brexit Britain, Sarah Moss left Coventry, where she was teaching, and brought her family to live in Dún Laoghaire. The novelist had accepted a post to teach creative writing at University College Dublin, and, despite the lingering covid restrictions, the family felt happy and settled at once. You have reached your article limit. Already a subscriber? Sign in Six months of digital access for â¬18.50
Dermot Bolger reverses plan to retire and sticks to his words (opens the original)
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Last year, playwright and novelist Dermot Bolger decided it was time to retire. At 65, heâd been writing for half a century â his first story was published when he was 14 â and he wanted to enjoy what he calls the writerâs best accolade: The free travel pass. âI was going to become an old codger, wandering around the golf course,â Bolger says when we meet in the Gresham Hotel. You have reached your article limit. Already a subscriber? Sign in Six months of digital access for â¬18.50
Author interview: Exploring the complicated reality of female friendship (opens the original)
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âItâs a universal fact that womenâs lives conformed to other peopleâs needs, while the lives of men ploughed straight through them, like a motorway tunnel.â This sentence, appearing in the middle of a paragraph on page 40 of Kathleen MacMahonâs fifth novel, simply jumped out at me. Meeting the writer in the Avoca cafe in Mount Usher Gardens, Co Wicklow, I asked her was this a main theme, and she agreed that it was. âThat to me was the central part of the novel,â she says. âBec
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