Brian Dillon and Jane Clarke on £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize shortlistEason named Children’s Bookseller of the Year; Helena Mulkerns launches imprint with book by her aunt Val (91); David Nicholls in Dublin for European Literature NightFri May 13 2016 - 10:37
Gavin McCrea and Lisa McInerney on £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize shortlistMrs Engels and The Glorious Heresies up against The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester for first novel awardFri May 06 2016 - 00:01
The Heart of Everything by Henrietta McKervey is May’s Irish Times Book Club pick‘McKervey is brimming over with promise. She has wit, imagination, and an understanding of human beings, hallmark of the true novelist’ – Éilís Ní DhuibhneSun May 01 2016 - 09:00
Ríona Judge McCormack wins Hennessy New Irish Writer awardChris Connolly wins Emerging Fiction prize, Jane Clarke wins Emerging Poetry award and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne inducted into Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of FameSat Apr 30 2016 - 01:00
Suzanne O’Sullivan wins £30,000 Wellcome Book PrizeAlso, the René Wellek prize, Authors’ Club’s Best First Novel Award and fair pay at writers festivalsFri Apr 29 2016 - 19:00
Ríona Judge McCormack wins Hennessy New Irish Writer 2016 awardChris Connolly wins Emerging Fiction prize, Jane Clarke wins Emerging Poetry award and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne inducted into Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of FameFri Apr 29 2016 - 12:04
Remembering John McGahern and Frank McCourtLate, great writers remembered in Galway, Dublin and New York; Beatlebone shortlisted; more drink for Lisa McInerneySun Apr 24 2016 - 16:32
Karl Geary signs major publishing deal for debut novelDublin-born actor co-founded New York venues Sin-e and ScratcherFri Apr 15 2016 - 13:44
All shall have prizes, or at least be longlistedIrish writers are at the fore of various award lists, including the Desmond Elliott Prize worth £10,000Sat Apr 09 2016 - 01:15
This is the Ritual by Rob Doyle is April’s Irish Times Book Club choiceLost and isolated, the characters in these masterful stories play out their fragmented relationships in a series of European cities, always on the moveFri Apr 01 2016 - 15:50
Lisa McInerney, Gavin McCrea and Sara Baume on Desmond Elliott Prize longlistSeven of the books up for £10,000 award are by women, including the debut novel from former Blue Peter presenter Janet EllisFri Apr 01 2016 - 00:01
Lisa McInerney: the Irish Times Book Club podcastThe Glorious Heresies author discusses Cork, class, blogging, trilogies and religionThu Mar 31 2016 - 14:50
Lisa McInerney Q&A: ‘Junk by Melvin Burgess – that book made me’‘Reading taught me how to think, and how others thought. I very much got my sense of the world through reading – I learned the world went beyond the horizons I could see’Thu Mar 24 2016 - 09:58
Lia Mills’ Fallen: Two Cities One Book; UCC celebrates Frank O’ConnorSabina Coyne Higgins is new Story House Ireland patron; Poets of 1916 talk at TCDWed Mar 09 2016 - 16:27
Irish children’s book awards shortlist revealedEoin Colfer, Oliver Jeffers, John Boyne, Louise O’Neill, Patricia Forde, Sarah Crossan, Mary Webb, Máire Zepf and John and Fatti Burke among writers and illustrators listedTue Mar 08 2016 - 12:08
Lisa McInerney and Anne Enright on Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction longlistLaureate for Irish Fiction’s The Green Road and current Irish Times Book Club selection, The Glorious Heresies, up for £30,000 prizeTue Mar 08 2016 - 00:01
From the archive: how The Irish Times reported the hunger strikeNews reports and an editorial from March 2nd and March 3rd, 1981Tue Mar 01 2016 - 15:30
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney is Irish Times Book Club choice for MarchBiting, moving and darkly funny, The Glorious Heresies explores salvation, shame and the legacy of Ireland’s twentieth-century attitudes to sex and familyTue Mar 01 2016 - 13:09
Irish playwright Abbie Spallen wins $150,000 prizeCo Down woman wins Windham-Campbell Prize, one of world’s richest literary awardsTue Mar 01 2016 - 07:34
Gavin McCrea: ‘when I finished John McGahern’s Memoir, I wept for an entire day’On learning how to deal with good reviews: ‘Because I spend a lot of my (writing) time enacting self-doubt and reproach, it can be difficult to trust praise when it comes’Sun Feb 28 2016 - 11:17
Kevin Curran: ‘writers should be writing against power’‘Not one big name in Irish literature has even attempted to gauge the feelings on the street and engage with contemporary social realism without sentimentalising it’Wed Feb 24 2016 - 10:58
Barney Devlin, blacksmith immortalised by Seamus Heaney, dies aged 96Tributes to man who inspired ‘The Forge’ and ‘Midnight Anvil’Fri Feb 19 2016 - 10:54
Greenbean Novel Fair 2016 finalists announcedJudges Anthony Glavin, Martina Devlin and Margaret Hayes have selected 12 aspiring novelists to meet publishers and agents at an Irish Writers Centre event next monthThu Feb 04 2016 - 15:08
Expecto Patronum! Harry Potter fans summon up their favourite spellTop 10 spells and what they do – your Harry Potter Book Night cut-out-and-keep / copy-and-paste guideThu Feb 04 2016 - 11:11
Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea: The Irish Times Book Club title for FebruaryThis acclaimed debut novel is based on the true but little-known story of an illiterate Irishwoman from a Manchester slum who was Friedrich Engels’ common-law wifeMon Feb 01 2016 - 16:01
Terry Wogan interview: ‘I’m a child of the Pale. I think I was born to succeed here’In this interview first published in 2007, Ireland’s most successful broadcaster, who died today, discusses his career, Ireland, the Troubles and identity: ‘I’m an effete, urban Irishman. I was a West Brit from the start’Sun Jan 31 2016 - 10:47
Soul mining: a brilliant seam of compressed and darkly glittering storiesThomas Morris’s characters scrabble to survive emotionally and spiritually in a post-heroic, soulless world, where cirrhosis is likelier than silicosis to undo themThu Jan 28 2016 - 07:00
Write like Hemingway, a TCD revolution series and Battle of the BookclubsRob Doyle book launch; Penny Dreadful shortlist; London literary evening; and an After Frankenstein competitionTue Jan 19 2016 - 17:25
Improve on Kevin McAleer’s WB Yeats meme: the winnerCongratulations to Claire Dempsey, whose reworking of the first stanza of In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz most impressed our judgesFri Jan 15 2016 - 12:00
David Bowie: Irish writers pay tributeJulian Gough, Joseph O’Connor, Edna O’Brien, Roddy Doyle, Eimear McBride, Hugo Hamilton, John Kelly, John McAuliffe and many others pay tribute to a musical geniusTue Jan 12 2016 - 15:21
2015 sales figures make pleasant reading for Irish booksellers and publishersThe Girl on the Train tops charts, with Anne Enright, Joe Duffy, Jim McGuinness, Colm Tóibín, Irelandopedia in top 10 and Irish market up 10.8% in value and 4.4% in volumeFri Jan 08 2016 - 17:33
In praise of Aidan Higgins: six Irish writers and his publisher pay tributeJohn Banville, Colm Tóibín, Rosita Sweetman, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Rob Doyle, George O’Brien and publisher John O’Brien salute the great Irish writer, who died last weekMon Jan 04 2016 - 10:13
Father Ted gift-wrapped: comedy gold, the frankly incensed and mirthI hear confessions of Father Ted co-creator Arthur Mathews, Fr Jack, Fr Dougal, Fr Damo, Fr Stone, Fr Ziggy, Eoin McLove and Terry McNamee, plus more secret lives, why some people hated Ted and miscellaneous TedfoolerySat Dec 26 2015 - 06:00
Danielle McLaughlin: ‘I think we need different books at different times’Our Book Club author on Eimear McBride, Maud Gonne McBride, Elena Ferrante, Wide Sargasso Sea and why dead people, naturally, are her dream dinner party guestsMon Dec 21 2015 - 11:50
Anne Enright’s The Green Road wins top prize at Irish Book AwardsJoe Duffy, Sara Baume, Jim McGuinness, Louise O’Neill, Donal Ryan, Sinéad Gleeson and Niall Breslin among winners at Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2015Wed Nov 25 2015 - 23:00
Frankie Gaffney’s advice to writers: ‘give up the booze and break some rules’‘My aim in Dublin Seven was to present a character whose very life and death is seen by society at large as not worth caring about: the young, working-class male’Mon Nov 23 2015 - 16:04
Danielle McLaughlin’s Dinosaurs on Other Planets: The Irish Times Book Club‘This is not a debut in the usual sense: a promise of greater things to come. There is no need to ask what Danielle McLaughlin will do next, she has done it already’: Anne EnrightMon Nov 23 2015 - 12:00
Anne Enright and Sara Baume on Costa awards shortlist£30,000 overall prize and £5,000 category prizes to be announced in JanuaryTue Nov 17 2015 - 19:30
Louise Beech: I always write physically at my desk; in my head I write everywhereMy novel was inspired by sharing an incredible true story with my then 10-year-old daughter when she refused her life-saving injections. She taught me about voiceMon Nov 16 2015 - 11:59
An Irishman’s Diary on Martin Doyle, the Victoria Cross winner who joined the IRAA tale of conflicting and overlapping loyaltiesTue Nov 10 2015 - 01:01
Picador acquires two novels from Irish writer Alan McMonagle‘Not since Pat McCabe’s The Butcher Boy have I fallen so in love with such a distinctly unreliable and hilariously imaginative child narrator’ says publisherFri Nov 06 2015 - 16:00
Sara Baume at UL; Neil Hegarty turns to fiction; Patrick Gale in BelfastAdrian McKinty signs on wavy line; Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer; Peter McDonald at TCD; Allingham FestivalThu Nov 05 2015 - 17:00
Big names on Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2015 shortlistBelinda McKeon, Nuala O’Connor, Anne Enright, Paul Murray, Kevin Barry and Edna O’Brien shortlisted for novel of the yearWed Nov 04 2015 - 11:30
Sara Baume awarded Rooney Prize for Irish LiteratureAuthor of Spill Simmer Falter Wither has also won Davy Byrnes Award and Hennessy New Irish Writer Award and been longlisted for Guardian First Book AwardMon Oct 19 2015 - 18:00
Terry Wogan: Out of shot at last?Terry Wogan is officially retired, but there’s no dozing by the wireless for the former BBC radio personality. He has just published his first novel, a semi-autobiographical, semi-satirical look back at his early days as a lowly Dublin bank clerkSat Oct 10 2015 - 05:00
Louise O’Neill: ‘I try and constantly cut back on the excess in my writing’‘Writing is the way in which I can make sense of the world. I always say that I feel like a shadow, a spectre at the feast when I am not writing. I write myself back into existence’Fri Oct 02 2015 - 11:07
IFTA televison awards shortlist revealedChris O’Dowd, Sharon Horgan, Brendan O’Carroll and Imelda May in running for awardsFri Oct 02 2015 - 09:00
Tore Renberg: ‘We will prevail. We will write. People will read. Literature is essential’The Norwegian bestselling author on being inspired by Dostoyevsky and Adrian Mole, and his very strong desire for fiction after five quite autobiographical novelsThu Oct 01 2015 - 14:50
Kati Hiekkapelto: ‘I have visited so many cultures, minds and emotions through reading’‘I don’t particularly like doing background research. I would love just to imagine everything. However, since I write about police work, I have to get the facts straight’Tue Sept 22 2015 - 16:04
