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Author: James Lawless

Irish novelist, poet and short story writer.
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Christmas Eve

  • Posted on December 24, 2020
  • by James Lawless

Christmas Eve The birds make fake bird songs that I heard in the Christmas shops, the fake moon is spotted before dark, the navyblue sky is waiting for its absence to be filled, houses stand like sentries, men in windows…

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Book Review: Dominicana

  • Posted on November 30, 2020November 30, 2020
  • by James Lawless

Dominicana Angie Cruz John Murray Publishers €19.35 This novel is based on the experiences of Angie Cruz’s mother when she immigrated to New York from the Dominican Republic as a young girl in the nineteen sixties. The fictionalised protagonist Ana…

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Acclaimed Dublin Story: The Corpseman of the Liberties

  • Posted on November 24, 2020
  • by James Lawless

I am delighted to announce that my story The Corpseman of the Liberties has just been published in Portuguese as O Livreiro do Liberties, translated beautifully by Rafael Matias. A young boy in the Liberties of Dublin learns about growing…

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Read the story of Halloween in The Avenue

  • Posted on October 31, 2020
  • by James Lawless

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THE WEIGHT OF LOVE: BOOK REVIEW

  • Posted on September 14, 2020September 14, 2020
  • by James Lawless

The Weight of Love Hilary Fannin Doubleday €15.99 When Robin Wolfe, an Irishman teaching in a comprehensive school in Clerkenwell in London in 1995, meets Special Needs Assistant Ruth Lennon, he becomes immediately infatuated with her. Ruth however is more…

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The Butchers: Book Review

  • Posted on August 10, 2020
  • by James Lawless

The Butchers Ruth Gilligan Atlantic Books €15.13 The happenings in this novel occur in an Ireland of 1996 with a rather disjointed fast forward towards the end to a photographic exhibition in New York in 2018 which exhibits a gruesome…

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Two Short Plays

  • Posted on August 4, 2020
  • by James Lawless

What are Neighbours for? Winner of the Cecil-Day Lewis Award. Tom and his wife, Joan are neighbours to Michael and his invalid wife, Dorothy. As Tom, a busy executive, is rushing off to work, Joan tells him that her frilly…

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Redhead by the Side of the Road: Book Review

  • Posted on August 3, 2020
  • by James Lawless

Redhead by the Side of the Road Anne Tyler Chatto & Windus £14.99 Micah Mortimer is an oddball. In his mid-forties with a poor posture he lives alone in a basement flat which offers him free rent in return for…

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Colm Tóibín Short Story Award 2020: Prizewinner

  • Posted on July 22, 2020
  • by James Lawless

My story A Touch of Affection won third prize in the Wexford Literary Festival Colm Tóibín Short Story Award 2020. The story is topical in its reference to the extreme effects social distancing can have on a vulnerable person. You…

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THE OUTLAW CHRIST: BOOK REVIEW

  • Posted on July 13, 2020July 13, 2020
  • by James Lawless

The Outlaw Christ John F. Deane Columba Books €12.99 This work is based on a series of talks and lectures which John F. Deane delivered as Teilhard de Chardin Fellow in Catholic Studies at Loyola University, Chicago in 2006. It…

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