The story of my tattoo: ‘It sounds ridiculous, but it holds me to account’
Hope, love, trauma: Patrick Freyne hears the stories behind people’s body art
The ultimate parents’ survival guide to summer 2020
Activities are curbed due to Covid-19, but there’s plenty of ways to keep kids occupied
Missed milestone: How will schools mark their pupils’ final days?
Schools are planning virtual graduation celebrations for their sixth class students
Covid-19: Calls to let sixth class students say their goodbyes
Celebrities join campaign to send messages to pupils missing out on the end of primary school
The book I want for Christmas: Paschal Donohoe, Alison Spittle, Joseph O’Connor and more
Seven well known readers and writers share the books they'll be giving and getting this Christmas
Tomorrowland: ‘I can’t believe my life’
Sarah Maria Griffin's festival book focuses on two young people and a journey they may be unprepared for
Won’t somebody please think of the children?
YA Fiction: Yasmin Rahman’s All The Things We Never Said, Meredith Russo’s Birthday and more
Shortlists announced for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017
Among the nominees are Ryan Tubridy, Cecelia Ahern, John Banville, Molly McCloskey, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
Bringing theatre alive for children with disabilities
Belfast theatre group has devised new ways of opening access for excluded kids
Children’s books: imaginary friends and real-life enemies
Nicola Colton’s ‘A Dublin Fairytale’; Eoin Colfer and Oliver Jeffers’s ‘Imaginary Fred’ ; Michael Morpurgo’s ‘An Eagle in the Snow’; Rainbow Rowell’s ‘Carry On’
Who’s reading YA? Everyone at DeptCon1, that’s who
Claire Hennessy reports on last weekend’s inaugural Irish YA convention, a fan event but one rich in debate and author insights
Speaking up: a brief history of rape culture in young adult fiction
Asking For It engages the media and popular culture but also its own field, YA, which since the 1950s has pushed boundaries and explored adolescence in edgy, realistic ways
Donal Ryan among winners of EU literature prize for ‘The Spinning Heart’
Irish Heritage Trust wins Cultural Heritage prize for work on Fota House project
Independent Irish publishers get in party spirit with Bring Your Own Stories event
An evening of readings by emerging authors in Dublin last night saw local publishers team up to have fun and create a platform
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