The Irish Times

Eoin McNamee: On My Culture Radar

The writer on Bob Kelly in Tintown, actor Amybeth McNulty and Eily O’Connell’s jewellery

Sat Jul 13 2019 - 05:00

Furious Hours review: A mannerly account of Harper Lee’s trial run

Casey Cep’s book on author’s true crime project is bogged down by fact-checked stasis

Sat May 25 2019 - 06:00

Last Stories by William Trevor is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages

Thu May 23 2019 - 16:00

Anna Burns: From relative unknown to Man Booker prize winner

‘Milkman’ author has been praised for her ‘dazzingly inventive’ writing approach

Tue Oct 16 2018 - 22:30

Man Booker Prize: Belfast writer Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’

First Irish writer to win prestigious £50,000 award since Anne Enright in 2007

Tue Oct 16 2018 - 21:50

Canadian ambassador Kevin Vickers launches Arctic novel

Attempt to find Northwest Passage setting for Ed O’Loughlin’s new book Minds of Winter

Wed Aug 31 2016 - 01:00

Ireland’s other Law Library

The professions of writer and lawyer share lots of similarities so it is perhaps no surprise that so many Irish lawyers venture into fiction. Sarah Gilmartin hears the evidence

Mon Oct 12 2015 - 09:53

Ten great Northern Irish novels you might have missed

Authors are using new ways of writing to reflect a changed political environment

Wed Aug 12 2015 - 11:30

Eoin McNamee: a capital crime writer

A decade after writing The Blue Tango about a real-life murder, the author revisited another crime scene in Orchid Blue. Martin Doyle interviews a true great of true crime

Fri Jun 26 2015 - 10:45

Northern Irish noir – the crime of Cain and the cult of Calvin

The Patricia Curran case has all the attributes of classic noir, says Eoin McNamee. It is easy to imagine the whole affair transposed from Belfast to 1950s Los Angeles, Black Dahlia territory

Fri Jun 12 2015 - 08:33