Brendan Barrington

Editor at Sandycove, an imprint of Penguin Random House; editor of The Dublin Review.

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Shouting from a literal rooftop about this wonderful book that we publish today. Huge congratulations to @eimear_ryan on this wise, funny, intense and utterly irresistible novel

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Catriona Crowe has written a forensic and devastating essay for the summer Dublin Review about the Mother and Baby Homes commission's treatment of survivor testimony. This is a timely and essential read, so we've made it available to all on the DR website: https://t.co/hHFuDnNnmZ

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@nathanfiler MIND ON FIRE by @arnoldtfanning. I published it (so may be biased) but it is magnificent (and meets all yr other criteria)

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Applications due Friday!

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A rare opportunity for an Editorial Assistant role in Dublin!

Details here: https://t.co/I9pNM9ioXt

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Coming in June! HOLDING HER BREATH is a brilliant and surprising novel, and it's a joy to be working with @eimear_ryan

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This was wonderful -- huge thanks to Anne, Colm, @DoireannNiG, @sarahgbooks and @RTEArena -- and above all to @artscouncil_ie for twenty years of essential support, without which none of it could have happened

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An Arena special tonight @TheDublinReview celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the literary journal. We have some very special guests! Editor @BrendanBarring1 @TheDublinReview Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, @DoireannNiG & Sarah Gilmartin @sarahgbooks
7pm Tonight on @RTERadio1

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Featuring @RobGMacfarlane, @fotoole, Moya Cannon and Nicolas Fève: a celebration of Tim Robinson @ILFDublin https://t.co/IqLYBLalvp

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On now!

[BBC Woman's Hour @BBCWomansHour]

Mary AcAleese, twice President of Ireland, talks to us about living through the Troubles in the North, building bridges, and taking on the Catholic Church: https://t.co/4Awh9SUPeB

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HERE’S THE STORY, published by Sandycove tomorrow, is a powerful memoir of family, chaos and trauma; it is also an eye-opening chronicle of a public life well lived. A truly great autobiography. A book for everyone. 3/3

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In other words, I knew the book would be powerful and important. But it was only later that I realized that Mary McAleese is not merely a good writer but a truly brilliant one: a natural storyteller with an uncanny ability to connect the dots between the personal & political. 2/

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When I commissioned Mary McAleese’s autobiography, I knew what we all know about her political skills, eloquence and truth-telling. I knew something of her upbringing in Ardoyne and the sufferings of her family and neighbours during the Troubles. 1/

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CHAMPAGNE FOOTBALL is an amazing feat of reporting, dot-connecting and storytelling by @marktigheST and @paulrowantree. In kitchens everywhere we should be raising our glasses to them.

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To be as smart and funny as @PatrickFreyne normally involves a transaction with the devil. But Patrick has also got a huge heart & a big bountiful soul, and it’s all on display in this magical book. A pity the glass has to be empty. We’ll celebrate properly one day, Patrick.

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Publication day for TWO amazing books I had the privilege to edit: @PatrickFreyne1’s OK, LET’S DO YOUR STUPID IDEA, and CHAMPAGNE FOOTBALL by @marktigheST and @paulrowantree. The parties will have to wait, but these are books worth celebrating.

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'Overwhelmingly'. It was an honour to publish @CampbellNiamh's beautifully observed and tonally perfect 'Love Many' in @TheDublinReview and now it's a joy to learn she's won this

[The Sunday Times Short Story Award @ShortStoryAward]

Niamh Campbell wins the 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award with Love Many 👏👏👏

https://t.co/NKhfN6zyeN

@CampbellNiamh @audibleuk #IheartShortStories

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Tim Robinson was one of the truly great cultural figures of our time, and working with him as his editor across six books has been an enormous privilege. We will miss him so much.

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We would like to extend our deepest sympathy to the family of Tim Robinson who died earlier today https://t.co/cfpMDjw7Zf

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love this

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'At least in The Handmaid's Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so in the true stories here.'—@MargaretAtwood on Republic of Shame by @CaelainnH

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Until alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert with the Irish state, operated https://t.co/Y9sBsRB4Ap via @PenguinUKBooks At least in The Handmaid’s Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so in the true stories here.

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Tomorrow evening: @PatrickFreyne1, @sineadgleeson and @SelinaGuinness talk to me (and, I hope, to you) about 'Ireland's English Question' (or, as I've started to think of it, 'What we talk about when we talk about England') https://t.co/I0iBtmsKTZ

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And next Wednesday we'll be discussing 'Ireland's English Question' at the second annual Dublin Review Conversations, with @PatrickFreyne1, @sineadgleeson and @SelinaGuinness: please join us! https://t.co/yjfNSrsqvt