Do writers make bad parents? Few agree with John BanvilleHis comment in an Irish Times interview that writers are bad fathers provoked a social media storm. Fellow writers reactMon Oct 24 2016 - 17:31
Ian Duhig and Bernard O’Donoghue on TS Eliot Prize shortlistBookmarks: Lingo Spoken Word Festival; Dara Ó Briain’s science for kids; independent publishing workshop; top titles from French and NevilleFri Oct 21 2016 - 10:30
Publisher Liberties Press admits owing money to authorsPublisher Seán O’Keeffe says he is sorry and vows to address the situation on paymentsSat Oct 15 2016 - 01:00
Paul McVeigh’s Polari prize win a triumph over very strong shortlistBookmarks: an Armagh arts event, a Shackleton festival and murder comes to MalahideThu Oct 13 2016 - 06:00
Graeme Macrae Burnet Q&A: ‘Like most writers I’m a dreadful procrastinator’‘I think the success of His Bloody Project shows that readers are willing to engage with something a little bit out of the ordinary,’ says Man Booker Prize shortlisted authorFri Oct 07 2016 - 10:54
Publisher takes Liberties by charging writers €100 per manuscriptBookmarks: Red Line Book Festival; Carousel Aware Prize; Irish Writers Centre hits the road; 50 years of free educationThu Oct 06 2016 - 17:00
Irish comedians' favourite funny novelsLooking for an amusing read? Ask comic geniuses Kevin McAleer, Tara Flynn, Maeve Higgins, Arthur Mathews, Kevin and Anne Gildea, Owen O’Neill and Ian McPhersonThu Oct 06 2016 - 12:39
How Bloom and Gerty’s activities in Ulysses shocked the US censorAccount relates lesbian couple’s legal battle for the publication of Joyce’s masterpieceSat Oct 01 2016 - 05:00
Three Irish authors on £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize shortlistBookmarks: Books are my Bag; An Evening for Book Lovers; Echoland is Dublin: One City One Book choice; IMRAM Irish language literature festivalWed Sept 28 2016 - 21:00
Arts for arts sake? Writers on the value of an arts degreeIs an arts degree still worth doing? A host of writers explain what they got out of itWed Sept 28 2016 - 10:53
Poem: There We Were, by Enda WyleyWe could have stayed forever there but then the bells rang . . . and we were savedSat Sept 24 2016 - 04:00
First-edition Beckett bio with Lucia Joyce autograph on saleBookmarks: Speaking on the Rising, Anne Enright in Limerick, and Mercier novel competitionFri Sept 23 2016 - 09:00
Ryan Tubridy and PJ Lynch offer sneak preview of their JFK bookChildren’s Books Ireland conference: Patrick and the President draws on Tubridy’s fascination with John F Kennedy’s Irish ties, the subject of his first book, JFK In IrelandWed Sept 21 2016 - 06:54
Ebooks: these books were made for walking‘Flâneuse: Women Walk the City’; ‘An Abbreviated Life’; ‘The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir’Sat Sept 17 2016 - 05:00
Claire-Louise Bennett shortlisted for BBC National Short Story AwardHilary Mantel, Lavinia Greenlaw, K J Orr shortlisted for second time along with Tahmima Anam for £15,000 prizeFri Sept 16 2016 - 19:45
Sally Rooney and Liz Nugent sign big book dealsBookmarks: major Irish debut; US deal for ex-Fair City writer; Stalin the bookworm; Dromineer literary festival; women writers for Icon Walk; Haughey novel for TVThu Sept 15 2016 - 11:00
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney to be made into TV seriesGalway author’s debut won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and Desmond Elliott Prize earlier this year. Sequel is to be published next AprilThu Sept 08 2016 - 11:23
Writers unite to stop Heaney’s birthplace being paved overBookmarks: The poet himself protested the Derry moterway route nine years agoThu Sept 08 2016 - 06:00
Australian Nikki McWatters wins €3,000 Moth Short Story Prize‘The language and descriptive powers of the author suggest a great talent,’ says judge John BoyneWed Sept 07 2016 - 12:53
Poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa awarded €10,000 Rooney Prize for Irish LiteratureA video featuring former award winners including many of Ireland’s leading writers has been made to celebrate 40 years of the Rooney PrizeMon Sept 05 2016 - 18:00
Tributes to Jeremy Addis and The Level Crossing launchesBookmarks: Books Ireland publisher dies; Dedalus Press produces a new poetry journalFri Sept 02 2016 - 16:00
Multitudes by Lucy Caldwell: September’s Irish Times Book Club choiceThe award-winning author’s bittersweet debut short story collection traces the highs and lows of young women’s lives in her native BelfastFri Sept 02 2016 - 13:28
Are you a literary lightweight or big hitter? Quiz answers and winner revealedScroll down for the answers. Congratulations to Mary McCauley, who has won 24 titles from the Macmillan Collector’s LibraryMon Aug 29 2016 - 13:00
Michael Grothaus Q&A: ‘Don’t worry about the first draft. It’s always going to be shit’The author of Epiphany Jones, a novel about Hollywood sex trafficking, on his life as a reader and writer and the many books that inspired himMon Aug 29 2016 - 12:39
Dublin Ghost Story Festival launches and Ulysses Centre gets green lightBookmarks: A ghostly revival and birth of a literary landmarkFri Aug 19 2016 - 13:39
Dorothy Molloy remembered in BallinaTwo events on August 4th will celebrate the work of the late Mayo scholar and teacher, painter and poetSat Jul 30 2016 - 01:00
Robert Dunbar: the Father (Christmas) of Irish children’s literatureOliver Jeffers, Derek Landy, Eoin Colfer, Marita Conlon-McKenna, Kate Thompson, Patrick Ness and many more pay tribute to champion of Irish children’s literatureFri Jul 22 2016 - 09:13
Tributes paid to Robert Dunbar, champion of children’s literaturePJ Lynch, Eoin Colfer, Patrick Ness and others honour critic and lecturer, who reviewed children’s literature for The Irish Times for more than 27 yearsThu Jul 21 2016 - 17:46
‘I write anywhere and everywhere except where and when I’m supposed to’RB Kelly on her literary life and loves: Mark Anthony, Anne of Green Gables, Terry Pratchett, Ben Elton, observing everything, and the right kind of feedbackMon Jul 18 2016 - 12:32
Irish Times Africa Day competition winnersStephanie Iwuala and Wasekera Chiphazi-Banda receive book prizesFri Jul 01 2016 - 17:42
‘UK was groomed’: Irish writers throw book at BrexitArchive: A cross-section of Irish poets and authors add their voices to alarm over Britain’s vote to leave the EUMon Jun 27 2016 - 12:00
Terry Pratchett: seriously funny and endlessly quotableLisa McInerney and Colin Smythe pick their favourites to add to the best of a new bookSun Jun 26 2016 - 08:00
Lisa McInerney wins second major prizeBookmarks: US publishing deal for Caitriona Lally; awards for Sarah Crossan and Thomas Morris; Dalkey literary walk; star in an Eoin Colfer musical; Hay Kells eventThu Jun 23 2016 - 15:02
Lisa McInerney wins £10,000 Desmond Elliott PrizeAuthor hailed as ‘major literary figure’ as debut novel The Glorious Heresies wins major award a fortnight after it won £30,000 Baileys Prize for Women’s FictionWed Jun 22 2016 - 19:15
First collection by 67-year-old Ron Carey shortlisted for Forward prizeBookmarks: Irish poet’s debut; ‘Mrs Engels’ in the frame; literary magazines for pre-teens; a Business to Arts opportunity; and adult colouring booksSat Jun 18 2016 - 07:25
A Baileys & Tanora cocktail for Lisa McInerneyBookmarks: Akhil Sharma’s Irish love; Irish author wins Canadian thriller prize; NLI programme; Kathleen Watkins' debut; Hennessy in Borris; Bloomsday biblesThu Jun 09 2016 - 16:25
Akhil Sharma on his debt to Hemingway and Robinson CrusoeA Q&A with 2016 International Dublin Literary Award winner: Reading taught me you will regret being cruel, not being kindThu Jun 09 2016 - 11:50
Rags to riches: Cinderella poem wins €1,000 Caterpillar poetry prizeRead the winning poem, Dear Ugly Sisters, by Laura Mucha. Last year’s winner Louise Greig secured a publishing deal after her poem was read on irishtimes.comMon Jun 06 2016 - 09:00
Sarah Crossan wins Bookseller’s YA Book Prize for OneAward won by an Irish author for second year in a row; Crossan also won CBI Book of the Year Award last week for her novel about conjoined twinsThu Jun 02 2016 - 16:27
At Swim, Two Boys: from page to stageBookmarks: John McGahern adaptations; WexFour quartet; Katie and Beth; Listowel prizes; sibling scribblers; Michael McLaverty story award deadline; Mils & Boon heroineThu Jun 02 2016 - 15:00
Anne Enright’s The Green Road wins Kerry Group Novel of the Year AwardLaureate for Irish Fiction also shortlisted for Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction. Eamonn Grennan wins €5,000 Pigott Poetry PrizeThu Jun 02 2016 - 11:14
The Irish Times Africa Day Writing Competition 2016: the winnersShannon Coady, Stephanie Iwuala, Miriam Onwule and Wasekera Chiphazi-Banda named as winners in second annual contestSun May 29 2016 - 06:00
A bittersweet memorial to Brian FrielBookmarks: Gallery to publish Friel’s Collected Plays; prizes for Paul Murray and Sarah Crossan; Belinda McKeon shortlistedFri May 27 2016 - 15:42
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is new Ireland Professor of PoetryPresident Higgins announces poet will succeed Paula Meehan in prestigious role for three-year termFri May 27 2016 - 14:30
Irish author wins Florida Keys Flash Fiction Contest and stay in Hemingway’s homeWallpaper, published here, by Denyse Woods, ex-director of West Cork Literary Festival and whose first success came in The Irish Times, defeated more than 2,100 entriesFri May 27 2016 - 14:17
Peter Fallon launches new poetry collection by Tom French in NavanBlackbird Books hosts celebration of poet’s fourth collection, The Way to WorkThu May 26 2016 - 12:24
Paul Murray and Hannah Rothschild win Wodehouse Prize for Comic FictionWinners to receive pigs named after their novels, a jeroboam of Champagne Bollinger and the complete Everyman Wodehouse collection at Hay FestivalWed May 25 2016 - 00:01
Novel about conjoined twins named best new Irish children's bookSarah Crossan’s One, a novel in verse about conjoined twins, is the CBI book of the year. Louise O’Neill, John and Fatti Burke and Lauren O’Neill also win prizesMon May 23 2016 - 13:00
Inish marks start of the Irish summerDarran Anderson’s Derry memoir; new Laureate na nÓg; Arts & Letters DailyFri May 20 2016 - 13:29
PJ Lynch announced as Laureate na nÓg by President Michael D HigginsAward-winning author and illustrator from Belfast succeeds Eoin Colfer as champion of children’s literatureTue May 17 2016 - 12:00
