Naoise Dolan

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“Anyone trying to claim a ­"gotcha” from a starving child has lost not only the moral high ground, but all ground.”
~Naoise Dolan

Sunday Independent

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Naoise Dolan | Take these yokes An Anglo-American audience is a mixed blessing for an Irish artist. Pro: you get their money. Con: their opinions, too....

‘Native speakers never needed to be shown that Irish is a living language. But for the English-speaking majority, Kneecap have made many not only admire Irish but actually want to use it.’

@naoisedolan.bsky.social on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Naoise Dolan | Take these yokes An Anglo-American audience is a mixed blessing for an Irish artist. Pro: you get their money. Con: their opinions, too....

‘Kneecap’s lyrics illustrate the reality that a cloying approach to the language would have us forget: in the Gaeltacht and for tens of thousands elsewhere in the country, Irish is not a museum piece but a normal means of daily communication.’

@naoisedolan.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Naoise Dolan | Take these yokes An Anglo-American audience is a mixed blessing for an Irish artist. Pro: you get their money. Con: their opinions, too....

‘Many of Kneecap’s international fans, before listening to them, hadn’t realised that the Irish language exists at all – and that far from a dialect of English, it has roughly the same lexical distance from it as Russian.’

@naoisedolan.bsky.social on the blog:

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

A one-stop summer reading list, via a trio of top Irish authors Speaking to Brendan O'Connor, acclaimed Irish authors authors Naoise Dolan, John Banville and Emer McLysaght bring us an eclectic list of book recommendations for your suitcase this summer

Tune into @rteradio1.bsky.social to hear Irish authors @emerthescreamer.bsky.social @naoisedolan.bsky.social and John Banville telling us what they are reading this summer
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Join us on Saturday @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social for a Mrs Dalloway Conference. 11am to 3pm, lots to enjoy, see the IWC site.

At 1.30pm I'm with #ClaireLouiseBennett & @naoisedolan.bsky.social to consider the way Mrs Dalloway is made, and how we made our own novels. Moderated by Belinda McKeon.

🎉 Celebrate Bloomsday at MoLI! 🎉

Writer Naoise Dolan will deliver our Dedalus Lecture at 5.30pm on 16 June, and later the annual MoLI Bloomsday Party takes over the entire museum and gardens. We are also offering free admission to our exhibitions all day (10.30am-4.30pm)!

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Maeve Higgins comedian, writer, Catherine Connolly TD, Donna Cooney, Dublin Deputy Lord Mayor, Eman Mohammed, Palestinian journalist, Naoise Dolan, writer, and Des Derwin, Dublin Council of Trade Unions will speak at the protest to call on the Central Bank to #StopFundingGenocide

Naoise Dolan: Genocide is happening in Gaza, so why condemn Kneecap for stating the facts? As Irish people, we are collectively falling for the media ruse that Kneecap warned us not to swallow.

Column on why we can’t let the Kneecap media circus distract us from the real issue: genocide m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

Cé i mo mhuintir a thréig an Ghaeilge? Nó: who was the snake?

Píosa nua i nGaeilge faoi cé i mo mhuintir a thréig an teanga

L’Irlande est l’une des terres les plus fertiles en jeunes écrivains très doués. Dernière découverte: Naoise Dolan, dont « The Happy Couple », ce roman du mariage à la sauce contemporaine paraît chez @editionsdelolivier.bsky.social

Our last event of the term sees our brilliant Writer-in-Residence Catherine Prasifka in conversation with novelist Naoise Dolan this Thursday 8 May. 🤩
@maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @mulibrary.bsky.social

I now have TWO Substacks, one in English and an evil twin in Irish. You can subscribe to either for free, or both if you are insane enough

Gaeilge: naoise2.substack.com
English: naoise.substack.com

Naoise Dolan: Grace case highlights once again the heartless indifference of the State towards women My generation of Irish women came of age through inquiries and scandals. Many of these bore an individual’s name: Savita Halappanavar, Ann Lovett, Miss X, Miss Y, Miss D. We learned that our general r...

This week's Sunday Independent opinion column on how my generation grew up amid a litany of Irish governmental scandals named after women, and the betrayal of seeing it still happening www.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

How Naoise Dolan returned to Gaeilge Acclaimed writer Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple, enjoys learning and writing in many languages and decided recently to return to the language of her homeland. Here's what ...

Agallamh i nGaeilge @rte.ie with some advice in English for learners www.rte.ie/gaeilge/2025...

Naoise Dolan on Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic Girlhood As a portrait of an intellectual awakening – this memoir stands as a classic

Naoise Dolan on Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic Girlhood www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Naoise Dolan: The shame still rises in me whenever I speak Irish. But I’m determined to keep talking through it – as Gaeilge Irish is useless and badly taught. Gaeilgeoirí are snobs. The modh coinníollach owes me money. Peig Sayers punched me in the face.

Column about why speaking Irish again since returning home this year has been complicated for me, but the shame and guilt aren't a random side effect but a necessary historical reckoning www.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

Naoise Dolan on The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue: Journeying into the past Historical novel based on one day in 1895 features anarchists, artists and aristocrats

Naoise Dolan on The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue: Journeying into the past
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Piece for RTÉ on returning to Dublin, and why it took learning German and Italian in Berlin to start actually using the Irish I’d always had amp.rte.ie/amp/1503754/

Ba mhór an pléisiúr!

BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, Declan Lawn, Naoise Dolan, John Meagher, Emer Maguire, Ryan McMullan, Chubby Cat Stuart Maconie and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.

Also, just a little plug because I can’t feature any programmes I’ve been involved with on PotW even though they may be Very Good™️ IMHO, I was behind the very NI Loose Ends last week from Lisburn, including @naoisedolan.bsky.social and @declanlawn.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The strange divide Irish literature versus literature in Irish

Seo m'iarracht-sa cur leis an gcomhrá láithreach – is leanúnach – faoi stádas na scríbhneoireachta Gaeilge sna réimsí liteartha Béarla // my attempt to add to the current – and continuous – conversation about Irish-language writing in anglophone literary spaces naoise.substack.com/p/the-strang...

Naoise Dolan on Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic Girlhood As a portrait of an intellectual awakening – this memoir stands as a classic

'This memoir stands as a classic.' Naoise Dolan on Mary McCarthy's MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...?

Author Torrey Peters: ‘Admitting to any sexual aspect to a trans identity can be politically dangerous. But I refuse to be silenced by bigots’ The writer on her self-publishing beginnings, ‘felicitous’ versus ‘infelicitous’ transitioning, and writing characters outside ‘modern trans politics’

ICYMI: check out @naoisedolan.bsky.social's interview with @torreypeters.bsky.social for the @irishtimes.com.

#StagDance is out this week 🦌💗

Now to get you back to Dublin!!!

A delight to talk to the charming novelist Naoise Dolan for the Irish Times!

Author Torrey Peters: ‘Admitting to any sexual aspect to a trans identity can be politically dangerous. But I refuse to be silenced by bigots’ The writer on her self-publishing beginnings, ‘felicitous’ versus ‘infelicitous’ transitioning, and writing characters outside ‘modern trans politics’

Still pinching myself that I got to interview THE Torrey Peters www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis: A comedy about a rehabilitation programme for Islamic State brides This smart, punchy book is destined to spark conversation, says Naoise Dolan. It deserves to be a massive hit

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis: A comedy about a rehabilitation programme for Islamic State brides. This smart, punchy book is destined to spark conversation, says Naoise Dolan. It deserves to be a massive hit

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...