Mary McAleese and Fontaines D.C. among beneficiaries of artists’ tax exemption
Scheme allows artists to earn up to € 50,000 a year on creative work free of tax
Gruesome twosome: Bad Sex award won by John Harvey and Didier Decoin
Irish novelist Mary O’Connor dodges ‘Britain’s most dreaded literary prize’
Who is the Irish author up for the 2019 Bad Sex award?
Mary Costello joins Elizabeth Gilbert on shortlist of ‘outstandingly awful’ sex scenes
Michael Noonan pays tearful tribute to sister killed in triple fatal car crash
Mary Noonan described as ‘focal point’ and ‘keystone of family’
Limerick crash victim Mary Noonan recalled as ‘great supporter’ of politician brother
Sister of Michael Noonan and two other women were killed in west Limerick collision
Sight by Jessie Greengrass review – Eyes wide open
A slow burning, beautifully written debut on the art of reflection
Write stuff: How authors are boosting creativity in the classroom
An education scheme is helping children see writers as living, breathing people rather than mythical beats
Shakespeare and me: Irish writers on the Bard's best bits
Some admirers celebrate the playwright’s work on the 400th anniversary of his death
Nothing lost in translation on Man Booker International list
High class shortlist of six shows strength of work published in English translation
International Dublin Literary Award shortlist in review
‘Jenny Erpenbeck should become the prize’s first German winner with ‘The End of Days’’
Caherlistrane, Co Galway: why all things lofty reside in the local
Writing a book about my homeplace and its abundant creativity drew on long-hoarded flotsam and jetsam about the parish, as well as actor Eilish O’Carroll, singer Seán Keane and his family, and US actor Vivian Nesbitt
International Dublin Literary Award longlist announced
Impressive show for German language writers with 11 titles among 160 nominated
The oddball narrators of 21st-century Irish literature
Caitriona Lally on Sara Baume’s Ray, Donal Ryan’s Johnsey and Daniel Seery’s Tom, whose outsider perspectives enable them to comment on mainstream Irish society
Dinosaurs on Other Planets by Danielle McLaughlin: Planet-sized problems of humanity
A stirring debut collection on the loneliness of being alive
Literary listings: Merriman Summer School, Yeats in Dublin, and Rebellion at Stinging Fly
A round-up of upcoming events in the books world
Literary listings: Irish head for Edinburgh, and Library Voices at Dun Laoghaire
Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books
Giving voice to the short story in ‘a sad, twisted melancholy sort of night’
Anne Enright champions short-story writers at Galway International Arts Festival
Ten things we learned at West Cork Literary Festival
Writers can get very angry but they shouldn’t go to the gym: these and other literary nuggets were divulged in Bantry
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
Brain-damaged boy gets apology and €2.8m payment from HSE
High Court told injuries caused by two hour delay in delivery of Tadhg Costello in 2006
A poem for Ireland, poetry for everyone
The countdown is on to find Ireland’s favourite Irish poem, so we’ve asked a selection of writers and readers to tell us their favourite few lines of verse, and to nominate which poem they think is best from RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland shortlist
Colm Tóibín, Mary Costello and Colette Bryce on Costa shortlist
Previous winner, first-time novelist and Derry poet in running for £30,000 prize
A worthy rival to Colm Tóibín and David Mitchell: Academy Street
Mary Costello uses restrained writing and characterisation to paint decades of a migrant life in New York
Mary Costello shortlisted for top prize as first novel is published
Colm Tóibín, Joseph O’Connor and David Mitchell also in running for Eason Novel of the Year
The final word: an agent can get your book over the line
How to Write a Book: In the conclusion to our 12-part series, agents give advice about what they look for in a book and how to attract a publisher. An agent is not the sole route into publishing, but the experience of a good one can be pivotal
Kill your darlings: the importance of editing
No editor has time to look at a novel twice. Leading editors offer advice to help writers make the most of their one shot
Tale with potential loses in its telling
Oona Frawley’s debut novel, Flight, about a Zimbabwean woman who has just arrived in Ireland, and the elderly couple she cares for, is the first book from Tramp Press
Rural stories of isolation and dark humour
Growing up in Co Mayo helped Colin Barrett shape wild visual narratives written in local voices
Brevity is the soul of ereading
How the rise of digital devices has given the short story a shot in the arm
‘Editing is my natural role’
Declan Meade has made it his business to find our finest writers, and his 15 years at The Stinging Fly make for formidable reading
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