Joseph O’Connor’s novel The Ghosts of Rome won Book of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2025. As well as being very well received by the Irish music press, Achieving Vagueness was nominated for the Choice Music Prize for album of the year. Not only was Lord Dunsany, aka Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Mary Lavin’s mentor; he was also an actual lord, the 18th baron Dunsany, and the author of more than 90 books. He was going by the name Lord Dunsany, after all, and when he tried to help during the Easter Rising it was for the wrong side. Still, it feels about time we remember Lord Dunsany.

Source: The Irish Times March 17, 2026 17:11 UTC