Irish Literature Archives - Words To That Effect

June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 Conor19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, 21st Century Literature, Irish Literature, Short Stories

Ep 34: The Art of the Short Story

There are the celebrated authors: Checkov, Joyce, Mansfield, Munro. There are the big questions: “what makes a truly great short story?”. “Where does the form originate?” “What can short stories do that other forms of literature can’t?” But before any of this, there’s a question that’s not that easy to read more…

Ep23 Literary Adaptation Words To That Effect

July 30, 2018February 17, 2019 Conor21st Century Literature, Film, Irish Literature, Popular Culture, Television

Ep 23: Adaptation (How does a book become a film?)

Literary Adaptation The book is always better than the film. Or so they say. But there are obviously quite a few problems with this, as there tends to be with any sweeping generalisation. For some, the book is always better than the film, because books are just better than films, read more…

June 4, 2018February 17, 2019 Conor21st Century Literature, American Literature, British Literature, Crime, Irish Literature

Episode 20: Domestic Noir

Why Are There So Many Crime Thrillers With ‘Girl’ in the Title? Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, Luckiest Girl Alive, Final Girls… There’s no shortage of crime novels with ‘girl’ in the title since the huge success of Gillian Flynn’s 2012 thriller Gone Girl. But what do these read more…

July 20, 2017January 25, 2018 Conor19th Century Literature, 21st Century Literature, Irish Literature, Science Fiction

Episode 3: Irish Science Fiction

What is Irish Science Fiction? Ireland is not, it is fair to say, the first country that springs to mind when you think “science fiction”. When aliens land on Earth, we tend to assume they’ll land in New York, or London, or Tokyo. Definitely not Dublin or Cork. But then, read more…

July 13, 2017January 9, 2018 ConorAmerican Literature, British Literature, Horror, Irish Literature, Supernatural

“He’s always going to be the guy who wrote Sherlock Holmes” [Article]

When Authors are Overshadowed by their Creations: A Frankenstein Tale When Dr Victor Frankenstein brings his famous creature to life in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), it is not long before he has lost control of his creation. The creature is bigger, faster, and stronger than his creator and so, when read more…

July 6, 2017January 9, 2018 Conor19th Century Literature, Horror, Irish Literature, Supernatural, Victorian, World War I

Dracula and Invasion Fiction [Article]

Invasion Literature: Armies to Aliens to Vampires “This was the being I was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps for centuries to come, he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the helpless” read more…