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THE SHORTLIST HAS been unveiled for the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021, with a wealth of writers across the fiction, non-fiction and short story categories nominated.
This year, authors on the shortlist include Sarah Gilmartin, Fintan O’Toole, Sally Rooney, Catherine Ryan Howard, Séamas O’Reilly, Donal Skehan, Sinéad Moriarty, Rosaleen McDonagh, Paul Howard, Oliver Jeffers, and Dónal Ryan.
There were also four new categories unveiled for 2021: An Post Bookshop of the Year, Dubray Biography of the Year, Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year and Bookstation Lifestyle Book of the Year
While last year’s awards ceremony was online due to the pandemic, this year an in-person awards ceremony to celebrate 2021 winners will take place in Dublin on 23 November. The event will be livestreamed.
The An Post Irish Book Awards 2021 Shortlist is as follows:
Eason Novel of the Year
Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year
Eason Sports Book of the Year In Association with Ireland AM
Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
Odgers Berndtson Ireland Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Dubray Biography of the Year
Bookselling Ireland Cookbook of the Year
National Book Tokens Popular Fiction Book of the Year
Bookstation Lifestyle Book of the Year
TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year (Senior)
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year (Junior)
Teen / Young Adult Book of the Year
RTÉ Audience Choice Award
Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year
Writing.ie Short Story of the Year
Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year
The Love Leabhar Gaeilge Irish Language Book of the Year
The An Post Bookshop of the Year
A one-hour book awards special will be broadcast on RTÉ One television on Wednesday 8 December which will celebrate the six books and authors shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Book of the Year 2021. The overall winner will be revealed on the show.
The public are now being asked to cast their votes online for the best books of the year on the An Post Irish Book Awards website anpostirishbookawards.ie. Voters will be entered into a prize draw to win one of five €100 National Book Tokens vouchers and voting closes at 5pm on 15 November.
John Treacy, Chairperson of the An Post Irish Book Awards, said today that like most other sectors, the book industry faced severe challenges this year. “Bookshops were closed; publication dates postponed; events and festivals moved online. The personal touch which we all value so much was sadly missed. But then something wonderful happened. We discovered that books were saving the sanity of thousands of readers during lockdown.”
Now, thank goodness, the bookshops are open once again and The An Post Irish Book Awards season is upon us. Congratulations to all of the authors who have been shortlisted and we look forward to finding out the winners on November 23rd.
David McRedmond, CEO of An Post, described books as “our best companions through the pandemic”, and said that “as we emerge, they will be our close companions too”.
Find out more on the An Post IBAs website and Twitter.
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I wonder would it Pass an NCT
Why it won’t be comming here….?might as well ask if its taxed
Would you really want the guys in NCT test centres putting it up on ramp
The test does not harm a car.the worst is the engine been reved highly for the emissions apart from that the test is a doddle a bit of a shake while they test the links/joints/bushes/shocks etc.
Doubt it would have to do a NCT it would be a vintage by now.
@henry,that’s right anything pre 1980 is test exempt and 52e to tax.I bring in the odd classic from the UK.easy to find a decent one and they require all vehicles to have a mot so road worthy and peace of mind its good.its a very very cheap way of having a second vehicle
Funny how it looks like the car Homer Simpsons designed.
The Homer!
It was going for only 2 million til they found a pair of Catwoman’s knickers under the passenger seat.
Holy handbags that’s alot of wonga ..poow dang wallop
I hear some joker bought it
Yeah he was two faced though
Speed bumps will be the bane of his existence now…
I see what u did there :p
Who didn’t love this car as a kid?! In fairness my favourite batmobile was the one Michael Keaton drove.
He bought it for a dollar and spent 9k dollars doing it up. Tidy profit.
According to the Independent George Barris had a mere 15 days and $15,000 to transform the vehicle into what it was. Also peculiarly the indpendent originally today said that the buyer was a 56 year old Mr Champagne revealed through Reuters, but later say that the winning bidder had not been disclosed! Odd
That’s not the original car! The original car was black with a kinda greyish whietish pinstripe. I saw it on tv when I was about 6 or 7.
That must be the one they used in the movie. That one had the orange stripe ok.
I read up about this a few years ago – apparently it was the same car but the paint job was originally a lot less dramatic, more matt-black, they repainted it the glossy block and red early on so as to look more impressive. Or so I read then…
Nikolas , I bow to your knowledge but I was really alluding to the fact that we only had monochrome TV when I was seven! But seriously though when I went to see Batman the movie I couldn’t get over the colours of things that I knew so well from the TV series. The orange stripe, the blue tinge to the batcape (which meant that the one my gran made for me wasn’t as authentic as I thought :( )
Well Bruce Wayne was stuck for a few bob seeing as Catwoman got his prints who then gave them to your man who gave them to Bane who made a mess in the stock exchange. I saw it in a movie so it must be true…
Holy nama batman
Holy God Robin!
Hold on one sec,so a car ten years old needs an annual nct but a car 30 years old cause its “vintage” doesnt?have I understood that correctly?
Yes
That can’t be right,so I can buy a banger from 1970 or so that’s falling to bits without an nct but my 99 bora needs an nct to be roadworthy?ah here leaaaavvvee irrrrrr ouhhhhh,that nct is a scam pure and simple
You’ll probably find it’s cheaper to run a 99 car than one from 1970, even with the NCT, when you consider the cost and rarity of replacement parts and how unreliable such an old car would be. But you’d have the satisfaction of laughing at the rest if us who fell for the scam.
There were eight of them I think, and three still survive. This must be one of the three.
That the first one nikolas
Is it? They made the body of the car by adapting the Futura, then made a mold of the body and created eight fibre-glass bodies, and then cars. They tended to get wrecked during filming. They all can be justifiably called original. It’s a lovely idea that there was “one” batmobile, but it’d be almost impossible to prove that this is the “original” original, given that all 8 were made from and repaired with stock parts and empty paint cans that were lying around the workshop.
Holy utility belt
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