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The Irish Literature Festival
From the sweeping, green coastlines to the historic, literary pubs of Dublin, Ireland has long held an astonishing influence over the world of words. The Embassy of Ireland in Thailand is presenting the Irish Literature Festival 2026 at the Jim Thompson Art Center on June 20–21.
To celebrate the festival, we have curated a special collection highlighting the very best of Irish writing—from the revolutionary modernism of James Joyce to the razor-sharp contemporary brilliance of Sally Rooney and the quiet, emotional mastery of Anne Enright.
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
“But it is a pleasure, isn’t it, on a crisp September night in Dublin to walk with long free strides along a quiet street. In the prime of his life. Incumbent on him now to enjoy such fleeting pleasures. Next minute might die. Happens every day to someone.”
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Skippy Dies
Paul Murray
“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.”y pen scuttles across the page.”
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Nothing Special
Nicole Flattery
“She read novels and underlined passages that felt special to her in big streaks of red pen. These novels were about civilised women who holidayed in Europe, women whose lives weren’t rotten or shameful. Someday, she thought, someday. She would burn her face off to become one of these women.”
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Room
Emma Donoghue
“Outside has everything. Whenever I think of a thing now like skis or fireworks or islands or elevators or yo-yos, I have to remember they’re real, they’re actually happening in Outside all together. It makes my head tired. And people too, firefighters teachers burglars babies saints soccer players and all sorts, they’re all really in Outside. I’m not there, though, me and Ma, we’re the only ones not there. Are we still real?”
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Hostages
Oisin Fagan
“The problem with the Gaels is that they are too free, and this freedom, he realises, is their only reaction to the devastating losses they have sustained for almost two centuries, but all these displays of wild freedom are flailing attempts to hide an enormous and smothering anxiety; and anxiety, he believes, is the root of all manmade things.”
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The Likeness
Tana French
“Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor, their clothes, everything – taking it for granted that that’s the whole point of life. Never to be satisfied. If you are perfectly happy with what you got, especially if what you got isn’t even all that spectacular then you’re dangerous. You’re breaking all the rules. You’re undermining the sacred economy. You’re challenging every assumption that society is built on.”
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Netherland
Joseph O’Neill
“We were trying, as I irrelevantly analyzed it, to avoid what might be termed a historic mistake. We were trying to understand, that is, whether we were in a preapocalyptic situation, like the European Jews in the thirties or the last citizens of Pompeii, or whether our situation was merely near-apocalyptic, like that of the Cold War inhabitants of New York, London, Washington”ndered if she was alone in having nothing in between the dullness of her own days and the sheer brilliance of this imagined life.”
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