tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77226060435746336492024-03-13T13:24:18.090+00:00Crime Fiction Irelandaka #CRIMEIRECrime Fiction Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809215739279071116noreply@blogger.comBlogger534125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7722606043574633649.post-89480343042551239612019-10-30T16:52:00.002+00:002019-10-30T16:52:14.618+00:00Crime authors in Irish Book Awards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Voting closes on 13 November 2019 for the annual An Post Irish Book Awards.<br>
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Murder One, Ireland's International Crime Writing Festival, returns on 1-3 November 2019.<br>
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The Murder One crime fiction festival is back in Dublin from 1-3 November 2019 in the Smock Alley Theatre. As a curtain-raiser, Midsummer Murder One is a series of evenings with three top American writers at the City Hall:<br />
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<li>Jeffery Deaver in conversation with Declan Burke (24 May)</li>
<li>James Ellroy in conversation with Eoin McNamee (30 May)</li>
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Capacity is limited to 200 so booking is advised. More details on the festival website at <a href="http://www.murderone.ie/" target="_blank">MurderOne.ie</a>.Crime Fiction Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809215739279071116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7722606043574633649.post-38477993870227878682018-11-30T12:57:00.000+00:002018-11-30T12:57:50.772+00:00Sports publisher Hayes pens own thriller<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sports biography publisher Liam Hayes has branched out with his first thriller, <b>You Haven't Got All the Time in the World... Heidi Wells</b> (2018).<br />
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<i>What if you were told the date of your own death and how you will die? When young London chef Heidi Wells learns the date on which either she or twin sister Gracie will die, depending on who is the oldest, she decides not to tell Gracie but to find out who was born first.</i><br />
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The book is published under the pen name William Hayes through his Umbrella Publishing company.Crime Fiction Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809215739279071116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7722606043574633649.post-29025394656685526522018-11-06T12:10:00.001+00:002018-11-06T12:10:12.308+00:00'Taken Down' police drama starts on RTÉ<br>
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RTÉ's latest police procedural <b>Taken Down</b> began this week. The six-part series is set in Dublin and involves asylum seekers and a murky underworld of trafficking and prostitution.<br>
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Dervla McTiernan's debut novel The Rúin (2018) is the first in a series of police procedurals set mainly around Galway.<br>
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<b>Irish Crime Fiction</b> (2018) by Brian Cliff includes chapters on Northern Irish crime fiction, novels set in the Republic, women protagonists, and transnational themes. A preview is available on <a href="https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137561879" target="_blank">Palgrave Macmillan's website</a>, where it currently costs €96.29 in hardback or €74.96 for the ebook.<br />
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The author is Assistant Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, and co-organised the Irish Crime Fiction festival in 2013. His other recent publications include essays on John Connolly and Tana French.Crime Fiction Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809215739279071116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7722606043574633649.post-28393406274137004202018-07-20T12:18:00.002+01:002018-07-20T12:18:37.323+01:00Author profile: Laura Elliot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Irish writer Laura Elliot lives in Malahide, which has featured in several of her novels. Her latest psychological thriller is <b>The Wife Before Me</b> (2018).<br>
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Karen Perry’s latest thriller, <b>Your Closest Friend </b>(2018), has been optioned for UK television. It takes place in London on the night of a terror attack:<br>
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The team behind RTÉ's <b>Love/Hate</b> series have started filming <b>Taken Down</b>, a new Irish crime drama set in Dublin.<br />
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Spiral Pictures' Stuart Carolan, <b>Love/Hate </b>director David Caffrey and executive producer Suzanne McAuley have been joined by crime fiction writer <a href="http://crimeire.blogspot.com/2016/03/jo-spain-beneath-the-surface.html">Jo Spain</a>.<br />
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The cast includes Lynn Rafferty (above) who played Nadine in <b>Love/Hate</b>, as well as Brian Gleeson, Orla Fitzgerald and Barry Ward. Rafferty plays a detective investigating the death of a young Nigerian migrant close to a Direct Provision centre.Crime Fiction Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809215739279071116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7722606043574633649.post-42295089363597601932018-03-06T15:19:00.001+00:002018-03-06T15:19:29.437+00:00Olivia Kiernan turns to crime fiction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Olivia Kiernan's latest novel <b>Too Close to Breathe</b> (2018) is a murder mystery.<br>
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"West Cork" is a new 13-part podcast series about one of Ireland's longest-standing murder investigations, the unsolved murder of French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier near her holiday home in County Cork in 1996.<br>
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Murder One is a new international crime writing festival at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin on 2-4 November 2018. Run in association with Dublin Libraries and UNESCO City of Literature, it is the brainchild of <a href="http://www.murderone.ie/about-the-festival-directors/" target="_blank">Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin and Bert Wright</a>.<br />
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Crime Fiction Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809215739279071116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7722606043574633649.post-41866141204385664552017-12-24T10:01:00.000+00:002017-12-24T10:01:27.365+00:00Sherlock Holmes: the Irish connections<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A documentary on Irish radio station Newstalk investigates the numerous Irish connections of Sherlock Holmes - and asks why the detective is as popular as ever.<br>
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<a href="https://crimeire.blogspot.ie/2015/03/julie-parsons.html">Julie Parsons</a> has won the Best Irish Crime Novel of the Year award at this year's Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. Her thriller The Therapy House is her first novel in nine years.<br>
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Voting is under way in the 12th annual Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. <br>
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The BBC has given the green light for an eight-part adaptation of Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series of novels. <a href="http://deadline.com/2017/09/bbc-orders-the-dublin-murders-tv-series-tana-french-books-sarah-phelps-1202177961/" target="_blank">Deadline reports</a> that filming will begin in Dublin and Belfast next year. Euston Films and Veritas Entertainment Group <a href="http://crimeire.blogspot.ie/2015/03/tana-french-dublin-murder-squad.html">optioned the rights</a> in 2015 and have joined up with Irish production company <a href="https://elementpictures.ie/" target="_blank">Element Pictures</a>.Crime Fiction Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809215739279071116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7722606043574633649.post-38344315853142481302017-09-28T18:29:00.000+01:002017-09-28T18:29:04.618+01:00Haughey stars in Peter Cunningham thriller<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Peter Cunningham's latest novel <b>Acts of Allegiance</b> (2017) is an espionage thriller set at the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and includes characters based on real people such as politician Charlie Haughey.<br>
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Crime fiction authors Arlene Hunt, Louise Phillips and Sam Blake will take part in the "Lady Killers" panel discussion at the <a href="https://brayliteraryfestival.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Bray Literary Festival</a> this Sunday, 24 September 2017. The event takes place in the Town Hall at 2 pm.<br>
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John Steele's debut novel <b>Ravenhill </b>is a thriller set in his home town of Belfast. It is the first book in a series featuring Jackie Shaw, and has been described by Tony Parsons as "a taut, intelligent thriller that ranks as the best Belfast thriller since Harry's Game by Gerald Seymour".<br>
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Irish author Liz Nugent explores Celtic and criminal connections with Scottish writer Denise Mina this Sunday as part of the Bloody Scotland festival. It takes place in Stirling from 8-10 September.<br>
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Andrea Mara is a freelance writer and award-winning blogger (<a href="http://officemum.ie/" target="_blank">OfficeMum.ie</a>) who lives with her family in Dun Laoghaire.<br>
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Published by Poolbeg, her debut novel <b>The Other Side of the Wall</b> was partly inspired by the constant night-time waking of her youngest child - though Andrea is quick to point out that unlike her main character she never saw a body in the neighbours' garden!<br>
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Declan Burke, Louise Phillips, Arlene Hunt and Andrea Carter will take part in a <a href="https://www.boylearts.com/event/crimewriters-panel-declan-burke-louise-phillips-arlene-hunt-andrea-carter/" target="_blank">crime writing panel</a> at the Boyle Arts Festival on 22 July, in the Family Resource Centre at 5 pm.Crime Fiction Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00809215739279071116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7722606043574633649.post-19128735637951827602017-06-15T09:15:00.000+01:002017-06-15T09:15:15.796+01:00Jack Holland (1947-2004)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Belfast-born writer Jack Holland was a journalist, novelist, poet and crime fiction author.<br>
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