Welcome to the very special St Patrick’s Day edition of the IrishCentral book club! This month, we decided to look back to a classic Irish book you may not yet have had the chance to read, picking up ...

Marianne Faithfull once described her career as "a triumph of style over substance abuse". Notorious Strumpet and Dangerous Girl brings the wisecrack irresistibly to mind. Jess Love performs Notorious ...

Strumpet City is the impossible Irish novel. The great master of the short story, Frank O'Connor, writing in 1942, claimed that it was simply not possible to write a social novel in Ireland. In Russia ...

British director Danny Boyle returns to his roots with sparky results in "Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise" and "Strumpet," two low-budget, DV mini-features set among the underclasses of Northern ...

Strayman, a spontaneous poet, is landlord to a pack of stray dogs. Unable to resist another of life's strays, he hooks up with Strumpet, a shy, homeless girl with an extraordinary gift for music.

In an interview for 'Writer in Profile' from 1970 James Plunkett talks to Niall Sheridan about what he sees as the function of literature and says that he cannot explain the success of 'Strumpet City' ...

I was sitting in the champagne bar of the hotel when I finally caught the baffling spirit of Kiev. Not that I had had much to drink. I was just thinking about the city and looking forward to a small ...

If you’re a young filmmaker clinging to the idea that your script or short film could be the path to that elusive first movie, take heart from the experience of actor/director Matthew Butler, who is ...

IF ULYSSESIS Dublin's odyssey, Strumpet Cityis Dublin's epic. James Plunkett's panoramic masterpiece is shaped by the Joyce of Dublinersbut also by the social realism of Dickens and above all, Zola.

Strumpet City by James Plunkett returned to No 1 on the Irish bestsellers’ last April after being chosen by Dublin City Libraries as its ‘One City One Book’ title for 2013. Dublin is a ...