This is a beautifully observed portrait of five young men growing up on the edge of Dublin’s underworld Estelle Birdy’s debut is a sprawling social novel that aims squarely at capturing the lives of a ...

George Raveling, the iconic college basketball coach and former Nike executive, has passed away at 88 after battling cancer. Inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015, Raveling broke ...

We present an extract from Estelle Birdy's debut novel Ravelling, published by Lilliput Press. Ravelling centres around the lives of five teenage boys in the Liberties area of Dublin. As the novel ...

At the age of 88, George Ravelling, a Hall of Fame basketball coach who helped Michael Jordan grab a historic sponsorship agreement with Nike, passed away. He used to be an executive at Nike as well.

Estelle Birdy’s debut Ravelling opens with a bang at a funeral of a homeless man in Dublin’s south inner city. Teenagers Deano, Hamza, Oisín, Benit and Karl mitch off school to attend. There are ...

Tell me about your debut novel, Ravelling. What are you most proud of in it? What does the title mean? Ravelling’s about friendship, language, place and having the craic. I’m most proud of the fact ...

'Ravelling' follows five friends from the Liberties as, in Leaving Cert year they negotiate life, facing racism, poverty, danger from drug gangs, and garda harassment Estelle Birdy: 'In 2017, ...