Review: The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow, a debut novel by Cork author Danny Denton

Seán Doran and Liam Browne want people in the Border counties to celebrate their shared literary heritge

Radio Review: The RTÉ presenter gets fully into character for an Easter special, before showing his strengths on more familiar ground

Joseph O’Connor’s ‘Star of the Sea’ is the first Irish novel since ‘Ulysses’ published in Cuba

Human rights, LGBT rights and civil society discussed between two leaders

Georgian mansion Orlagh on 100 acres to be used as medical centre or hospitality facility

The 10th annual Dublin Book Festival takes place this weekend, hosting workshops, walks, talks and readings by some of Ireland’s prominent writers. Here are some of the must-sees

Galway author’s debut won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and Desmond Elliott Prize earlier this year. Sequel is to be published next April

One west Cork writing group has had 108 publications. So why is group think so successful when it comes to literature?

Paul McVeigh describes the strange sensation of rereading his first adult short story and recalls how it evolved into his novel ‘The Good Son’, July’s ‘Irish Times’ Book Club choice

Author hailed as ‘major literary figure’ as debut novel The Glorious Heresies wins major award a fortnight after it won £30,000 Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction

We’re are loving the Dublin Pizza Company this week, but not so keen on invasive wearables

Irish author claims prestigious award for her debut novel ‘The Glorious Heresies’

Georgian mansion on about 100 acres has potential as a hotel or conference centre

Some admirers celebrate the playwright’s work on the 400th anniversary of his death

High class shortlist of six shows strength of work published in English translation

‘Jenny Erpenbeck should become the prize’s first German winner with ‘The End of Days’’

Dublin Shakespeare Society; Kevin Curran reading; All-Ireland Poetry Day; Trinity talk on Derry authors; hunger strike talk at UCD

The Irish novel may be at a crossroads, says Bert Wright, but Irish fiction is as vibrant and multifarious now as fiction has ever been in any culture in literary history

Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books

Who is David Gilmour’s favourite lyricist? Why are film adaptations inferior to the books? Can poetry replace liturgy? All these questions and more were answered in Co Carlow

‘One might assume that a novel set in contemporary Ireland called The Glorious Heresies would feature a cast of blasphemers clashing with the faithful fraternity, but Catholic Ireland just isn’t Catholic enough to support such an Atwoodesque theme’

After a career with Reuters, the Dubliner set up his own literary agency in London

The winner of the 2014 Davy Byrnes Short Story Award gave herself two years to write her debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither. But she remains torn between fiction and visual art

Portfolio producing rent roll of €142,500

Sale prompted by the appointment of receivers to Foundwell Investments

The facility is located just off the M6 motorway

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