two years later. In 2012, she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Book Awards and was one of the writers nominated in 2014 for the position of first Irish Laureate for Fiction.

Coronet Books Her fellow Irish writers cherished her. At a memorial service for her in Dublin’s Trinity Theater, the novelist Roddy Doyle called her “Ireland’s greatest writer.” ...

two years later. In 2012, she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Book Awards and was one of the writers nominated in 2014 for the position of first Irish Laureate for Fiction. She ...