Sally Rooney: ‘I enjoy writing about men ... the dangerous charisma of the oppressor class’
Fans are drawn like moths to the author’s flame during her two appearances Cúirt festival
The Big Fight by Dave Hannigan: Account of Muhammad Ali in Croke Park a strange time capsule of 1970s Ireland
Naoise Dolan’s verdict on One Boat by Jonathan Buckley: An experiment that doesn’t entirely hold water
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett: Into the abyss, again
John Boyne on Fair Play by Louise Hegarty: A witty debut that celebrates the golden age of crime novels
Memoirs of Dan Mulvihill: Fulfilling the dream of a veteran of the old IRA
38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands: The parallel stories of mass murderers
Cúirt literature festival at 40: ‘There is a sense of an Irish writing culture exploding around the world’
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The Forest is the Path by Gary Lightbody: Moving, lyrical and more than just a companion book to Snow Patrol’s album
By Adam Wyeth
Author Oisín Fagan: ‘The Irish have gone everywhere and been among the best and the worst’
By Martin Doyle
Children of Radium by Joe Dunthorne: An excellent and unsettling excavation of family secrets
By Ruby Eastwood
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner review – ‘small, random stabs of extreme interestingness’ captured on the page
By Mia Levitin
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025: Miranda July, Elizabeth Strout and four debuts make shortlist
By Martin Doyle
The Bureau by Eoin McNamee: If you’re interested in what the Border truly means, read this exceptional novel
By Conor O’Callaghan
A Dictionary of Irish Saints by Pádraig Ó Riain: Wonderfully written and incredibly valuable
By Chris Doyle
Author Shane Hegarty: ‘I’m lucky to see the work done by teachers. They are undervalued’
By Martin Doyle
‘The city is always changing but this is the Dublin of now’: Declan Meade on capturing the capital in words and prose
By Róisín Ingle
Abundance; The Care Economy; The Measure of Progress: ‘The old is dying and the new cannot be born’
By Vic Duggan
Putting Wales First by Richard Wyn Jones: Thinking for Wales - An exciting read with global relevance
By Angela Graham
Francis of Assisi: The Life of a Restless Saint – An empathetic and evenly paced treatment of the medieval saint
By Andrew Roycroft
Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts: A climate-change novel weighed down by a deluge of soupy prose
By Huda Awan
