Sturgeon and O’Hagan to pick 2026 Irish Novel of the Year
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Nicola Pierce: ‘I started to write Great Irish Wives without any idea I would be a widow by the time it went to print’
The author on losing her husband, writing two books about the Titanic, and her love of Jo March
German author researching climate change wins Moth Nature Writing Prize 2025
Guardian country diarist Mark Cocker judges novel excerpt winner of prize worth €1,000 and a week at Moth’s Irish writing retreat
Joseph O’Connor wins Irish Book of the Year 2025 with The Ghosts of Rome
Sequel to My Father's House is the second in the Escape Line trilogy, inspired by the true story of Fr Hugh O’Flaherty
Mary Beard to chair Booker Prize jury
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Gráinne O’Brien: ‘I was anxious about things most authors wouldn’t even dream could happen’
Debut author and bookseller on her award-winning novel, Solo, which is written in verse
Irish Writers Centre novel winners revealed
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Tom Paulin wins PEN Heaney Prize for Namanlagh
Poet honoured for his 10th collection, his firs tin more than 10 years
Caroline Grace-Cassidy on fate: ‘Let’s all believe that our World Cup place is meant to be’
The author on her new Christmas novel; her hopes of it becoming a Hallmark movie; and her belief in fate
Books of the year 2025: Authors and critics pick their favourites
Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices
Kate O’Brien Award now worth £5,000
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Irish Book Awards 2025: Roisín O’Donnell, Claire Gleeson and Manchán Magan among winners
Jacqueline Connolly, Andrew Porter, Cecelia Ahern, Andrea Mara, Elaine Feeney, Joseph O’Connor and Michael D Higgins also honoured
Annemarie Ní Churreáin: ‘There’s a deep respect embedded in Gaeltacht culture for troublemakers’
Poet reflects on how here upbringing has shaped her works, including her latest collection Hymn to All the Restless Girls
Claire Power is new Poetry Ireland head
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Hugo Hamilton: ‘I love speaking Irish. It places me in a less aggressive country full of musical links to an ancient past’
The author on his new novel, Conversation with the Sea; his German heritage; and how Germany is in denial about Gaza