Joe O’Connor: ‘The music of a novel is as important as the plot’Author’s new novel Shadowplay is a complicated love affair featuring Dracula creator Bram Stoker, the first Irish writer he fell forSat May 25 2019 - 06:05
Books podcast: Sarah Crossan on her new YA novel Toffee and on being Laureate na nÓgCarnegie Medal winner discusses her books and her identity as an Irish person in BritainSat May 25 2019 - 05:46
Last Stories by William Trevor is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offerA sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pagesThu May 23 2019 - 16:00
Jan Carson wins EU Prize for Literature Ireland 2019 for The FirestartersNovel set in working-class Protestant Belfast explores seductiveness of lust and violenceWed May 22 2019 - 19:30
Unprecedented hat-trick of awards for debut author Kelly McCaughrainFlying Tips for Flightless Birds wins CBI Book of the Year, Eilís Dillon and Children’s Choice awardsWed May 22 2019 - 12:45
Celestial Bodies author Jokha Alharthi wins Man Booker International PrizeOmani becomes first Arabic author to win award and shares £50,000 prize with translator Marilyn BoothTue May 21 2019 - 21:45
The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen is Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu May 16 2019 - 10:48
81-year-old Irish debut novelist shortlisted for Society of Authors awardChurch of Ireland minister Norma MacMaster, Sheila Llewellyn and Niall Bourke in running for prizesWed May 15 2019 - 00:01
Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist revealedClaire Adam, Michael Donkor and Anna Mackmin in running for £10,000 awardFri May 10 2019 - 00:01
The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen is latest Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu May 09 2019 - 15:06
Saturday’s Irish Times offer at Eason is Connect by Julian GoughA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu May 02 2019 - 15:16
Connect by Julian Gough is this week’s Irish Times offer at EasonA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Apr 25 2019 - 11:35
Lyra McKee: Lost Girl of the TroublesShe made her name as a journalist covering the Troubles’ legacy and was set to win fame as an authorFri Apr 19 2019 - 14:32
Lyra McKee a ‘fearless seeker of truth’: fellow writers pay tribute‘The people who took Lyra’s life are part of the past and will never be allowed to determine our future’Fri Apr 19 2019 - 12:20
Puffin says it is ‘proud’ to publish John Boyne’s trans YA novelA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Apr 18 2019 - 14:39
Roddy Doyle shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic FictionNina Stibbe makes the shortlist for the third time with Reasons to be CheerfulWed Apr 17 2019 - 00:01
The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Apr 11 2019 - 15:00
Northern women dominate Irish €5,000 EU Prize for Literature shortlistA sneak preview of tomorrow’s books pagesFri Apr 05 2019 - 10:11
Dublin Literary Award: Two Irish authors shortlisted for world’s most valuable books prizeSally Rooney and Bernard MacLaverty shortlisted for the €100,000 prizeThu Apr 04 2019 - 00:01
‘Brexit is aggressive and dangerously nostalgic. The UK is in for a brutal chastening’Eimear McBride, David Park, Sinéad Morrissey, Nick Laird and a host of Irish writers share their viewsFri Mar 29 2019 - 00:01
Novels about Lucia Joyce and Alan Turing win Republic of Consciousness PrizeWill Eaves and Alex Pheby share prize as founder rejects single winner conventionThu Mar 28 2019 - 21:00
Colin Walsh is named Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year 2019Mike McCormack joins Hall of Fame as Hennessy ends sponsorship after 48 yearsThu Mar 28 2019 - 20:45
Donal Ryan’s From A Low and Quiet Sea, this week’s Eason offer, up for RSL Ondaatje PrizeA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Mar 28 2019 - 17:39
DCU confers poet Paula Meehan with honorary doctorateA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Mar 21 2019 - 15:24
The Irish Times Books Podcast: with Kevin Breathnach and New Irish Writing’s Ciaran CartyListen to the author of ‘Tunnel Vision’ and the man behind the Hennessy Literary AwardsSat Mar 16 2019 - 06:00
Best of Irish: 10 rising stars of Irish writingIn advance of St Patrick’s Day, we celebrate leading lights of our creative industriesFri Mar 15 2019 - 06:01
€15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year shortlist revealedA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Mar 14 2019 - 16:07
Irish writer wins $165,000 Windham-Campbell PrizeDanielle McLaughlin gives her reaction to her huge success and reveals her next projectWed Mar 13 2019 - 19:30
Man Booker International Prize 2019 longlist dominated by womenWomen make up eight of 13 longlisted authors, with all but two of the books published by independent housesWed Mar 13 2019 - 00:01
The best books by women of the 21st centuryOn International Women’s Day, writers and critics pick the best works by women since 2000Fri Mar 08 2019 - 05:31
Norma McMaster longlisted for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award in her 80sA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Mar 07 2019 - 12:29
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne is this weekend’s Irish Times offer at EasonA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Feb 28 2019 - 15:31
Nicole Flattery on what inspired her debut, Show Them A Good TimeA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Feb 21 2019 - 17:52
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton: this week’s Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of tomorrow’s books pagesFri Feb 15 2019 - 11:42
Valentine’s Day: Impress them with these love poemsMichael Longley, Elaine Feeney and eight other Irish poets choose their favourite romantic verseThu Feb 14 2019 - 06:00
Too Close to Breathe by Olivia Kiernan is this week’s Irish Times book offer at EasonA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest literary newsThu Feb 07 2019 - 16:27
Too Close to Breathe is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Jan 31 2019 - 15:07
Costa Book of the Year: The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es wins £30,000 prizeNormal People by Sally Rooney had been favourite to win £30,000 prizeTue Jan 29 2019 - 19:30
An Post Irish Book of the Year 2018 winner revealedPublic voted overall winner from list of individual awards announced in NovemberTue Jan 29 2019 - 08:30
Catherine Ryan Howard’s The Liar’s Girl shortlisted for Edgar Award for Best NovelA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages and details of a great Eason offerThu Jan 24 2019 - 14:44
Buy Fire and Fury by Michael Woolf for just €4.99 with The Irish Times at EasonA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Jan 17 2019 - 17:43
Browser reviews: Napoleon, vampires and the girl who smiled beadsHarold Evans on concise and meaningful word, and a new insight into Cathal BrughaSat Jan 05 2019 - 00:00
The true story behind The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Ireland’s bestselling book of 2018A sneak preview of tomorrow’s books pagesFri Dec 21 2018 - 11:33
Ireland’s bestselling books of 2018 revealedAisling novels by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen are biggest Irish success storyWed Dec 19 2018 - 16:24
A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesBuy The Wife Between Us for €4.99 with The Irish Times in Eason this weekendThu Dec 13 2018 - 13:00
A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesCrime author Anthony J Quinn on finding refuge in books growing up near the BorderThu Dec 06 2018 - 05:33
Breandán Mac Suibhne wins €10,000 Michel Déon Prize for Non-Fiction‘The End of Outrage’ is about aftermath of Famine in historian’s Donegal communityMon Dec 03 2018 - 18:45
Books of 2018: writers pick their favourite novels and non-fictionFrom Anna Burns’s Milkman to Diarmaid Ferriter's On the Edge, it’s been a strong yearSat Dec 01 2018 - 06:00
Sally Rooney conquers all as boxers and gamblers bounce back in sports awardsA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Nov 29 2018 - 15:34
