Rob Doyle

‘For me, the most exciting things are happening in that liminal space between memoir and fiction’

There is no reason why fiction should be segregated according to emotional / intellectual or readable / innovative. Great writing soars above such distinctions

There are trace elements of Laurence Sterne’s irascibility, James Joyce at his bawdiest, and also the scandalous eroticism of Georges Bataille, says gorse editor Susan Tomaselli

Rather than free the spirit from the agony of individual consciousness, reading can lock you deeper in the skull-chamber from which you sought escape or offer glimpses of transcendence, of liberation

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

Depictions of sex, drugs and alcohol no longer take us aback, according to the Irish author. The power of his new book, ‘This Is the Ritual’, comes from its ability to unnerve

If this standard is kept up, writes Kevin Gildea, then Winter Pages will become as essential as a warm fire on the wet miserable nights of our Irish winter lives

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

An evening of readings by emerging authors in Dublin last night saw local publishers team up to have fun and create a platform

Rob Doyle’s book is a rough but powerful debut, maybe the first novel since Kevin Power’s ‘Bad Day in Blackrock’ to interrogate the dark side of the young Irish male’s psyche

Irish crime and thriller writers have made quite a mark in recent years. Now it’s the turn of a new wave of Irish literary novelists. Five debut writers introduce their books