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Emerging authors in Northern Ireland

10/3/2017

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Libraries NI and Women Aloud NI are both at the fore of an effort to amplify female voices in fiction in Northern Ireland.

I have spent a year reading works from Northern Ireland authors, both male and female. The quality of literature in this country is high, yet local authors, particularly women, struggle to get their work published. The feedback from mainland Britain is often that the books are too Irish. The feedback from the Republic of Ireland is often that the books are too northern.

Once published, accessing shelf space among bestselling authors in bookshops is also problematic.

Libraries NI has gone the extra mile to ensure that local books can be seen by the public.

Why not pop into your local library this weekend and ask for something local. The three books that were selected for the Emerging authors events are available in 
Newtonbreda, Banbridge and Larne libraries. They can also be ordered from any other library in Northern Ireland. Here's a little bit more about each of the books for those who missed the Emerging author events.


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    Prose

    Scene from Snugville Street
    ​The Wedding Wisp 

    82 Waterloo Road
    Ballysnod
    The Teacher Voice
    ​The Children of Latharna
    The Band Stick

    The Bully up the Brae

    History & folklore

    Language Blog I
    Language Blog II
    Language Blog III
    Language Blog IV
    ​The linguist behind Ulster Scots.
    ​Kailyard & Dusty Bluebells
    Jean Park of Ballygally 
    Fiddles and Melodeons
    Martha Taylor's diary
    Jean McCullagh at 104
    Ballymena & the McConnells
    Arms in Irish Dancing
    Catholics & Protestants in Irish dancing

    Essays

    Irish Times:
    Irish Dancing: The Festival Story
    ​The Protestant in Irish Fiction.
    ​The Protestant in Irish fiction II
    ​Ulster-Scots in Irish Fiction
    ​An author in Wonderland


    Belfast Telegraph:
    Irish Dancing
    ​

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    The Kailyard
    Dancing in Victorian Ulster

    Learning the Irish Language.
    John Hewitt Summer School

    Book reviews

    Shuggie Bain
    Wigtown Ploughman

    Jo Zebedee
    Lesley Allen & Helen Nicholl
    ​
    Orla McAlinden
    Du Maurier
    Anne Doughty

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