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Former New Yorker photographer Steve Pyke has compiled a striking book of portraits beginning with Neil Jordan in 1985 and including Marian Keyes, Edna O’Brien, Sebastian Barry
The author on new novel City Girls Forever, a key difference between men and women and dealing with a cancer diagnosis
John Boyne, Edel Coffey, Ferdia Lennon, Sarah Gilmartin and a dozen other authors and critics on books that had a profound emotional effect on them
Publication in plain English marks 40 years of the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA)
Among the nominees are Ryan Tubridy, Cecelia Ahern, John Banville, Molly McCloskey, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
What will the capital look like years, centuries, even millenniums from now? Dublin in the Coming Times invites the people of the city to imagine how their home will change. Christine Dwyer Hickey continues the series with a short story imagining a future Dublin
The long-standing Duck restaurant in Gorey has a confidence about its food and service
‘What starts out as an adventure becomes a habit, and a well-fed habit can only go one way’
‘In the hotel bar, late in the evening, four middle-aged men cautiously crossed the floor’
‘As a teenager I went on the gur many times. But then a friend helped me to realise that an unhappy home is better than no home at all’
Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books
Writers can get very angry but they shouldn’t go to the gym: these and other literary nuggets were divulged in Bantry
‘There is no better way to appreciate another culture or to begin to understand the lives of others than through a well-written novel’
One of Ireland’s finest poets reviews the career of our Book Club author, from Tatty to The Lives of Women: 'her work sustains a voice, and evokes a place, with exceptional control'
Doughnuts and cigarettes or blindfold, earmuffs and earplugs? Writers can have odd ways of getting ready for their working day – or night. Gavin Corbett, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Henrietta McKervey, Thomas Morris and Paul Murray take us into their creative worlds
Irish Women Writers: ‘Novelist, short-story writer and playwright, as diverse and original a talent as one could hope to find’
Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction
Seamus Heaney, John Banville and others are inspired by the National Gallery’s art in a new anthology
Deciding on a shape for your book can give you confidence and freedom
Review: Sophia Hillan’s first novel has its flaws, but it is also moving and memorable
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
