Sally Rooney

The city is a soulful playground for the kind of people who have spectacles on their nose and autumn in their hearts

Normal People author’s title sold almost 12,000 copies in first five days on market

Intermezzo author explains how she treats quotation marks in her writing

My comedic, commercial fiction has been described as ‘fluffy’ or ‘an easy read’ more times than my heart and ego can take

Plus, what the writer said in conversation with Fintan O’Toole in the National Concert Hall on Saturday

September 21st-27th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Sally Rooney applies her formidable emotional intelligence to complex human entanglements, dealing deftly with desire and experimenting with form

The Ireland of film-maker and author Neil Jordan’s youth was like ‘living in a fantastical universe that didn’t make any logical sense’

Kamala Harris saw off Donald Trump in a lively debate this week, as Ireland’s soccer woes continue

As Intermezzo is published, here is a quick reminder of Sally Rooney’s previous bestsellers and their screen adaptations

Intermezzo author reflects on Joyce, how Christianity has shaped her thinking, and her dislike of the limelight

Filipino cuisine is taking over in food while romance tropes such as #grumpysunshine dominate BookTok

If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing

Colm Tóibín’s Long Island, Lucy Caldwell’s Openings, Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits and Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments are among the novels with multiple selections

The active fund giant has only 2% per cent of client money invested in companies with business related to fossil fuels, well below market average

The investment firm has met the ire of literary activists amid accusations of greenwashing

The actors rose to prominence after starring in an adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel

The author of One Day on his new novel, You Are Here; the Irish writers he admires; and father-son relationships

The characters of these nine stories operate within a system of self-betterment even if they are incapable of bettering themselves

Leo Varadkar moves Joe Biden to tears when he quotes the president’s late son, Beau Biden

Our Government is basking in the moral glow of condemning the bombers, while preserving a cosy relationship with those supplying the bombs

When the author’s previous novel was released in 2021 it sold 40,000 copies in just five days

The bestselling Irish author’s fourth novel will be published by Faber on September 24th

From cinema and theatre to television, folk music and literature, Ireland is enjoying unprecedented creative boom

Ireland has borne witness to one of the most significant periods in its modern literary history, a winning-streak that shows no sign of abating

It’s okay to gloat about our artistic accomplishments, fruits of a period of social turmoil

Cork actor, now starring alongside Barry Keoghan in Saltburn, on why she’s attracted to radical women

Former hostage John McCarthy and many leading Irish writers, actors and musicians among signatories of London Review of Books open letter

Despite being banned, the Hist is set to celebrate its official status as the world’s oldest college debating society

The author on her new novel, The Wren, The Wren, pretending to be a poet and the ‘male nastiness’ Sally Rooney encountered

Father of Normal People star once considered going pro but didn’t. He is hoping to perform more often when he retires from teaching

Cork actor Éanna Hardwicke on his role in Normal People, male mental health and new film Lakelands

The #MeToo movement has made men in literature more cautious

The Stinging Fly, which is celebrating 25 years, has helped launch the careers of many of Ireland’s most promising writers

Opinion: The nice thing about being a landlord in Ireland today, as the late Margaret Thatcher might observe, is that you never seem to run out of other people’s money

I’m nostalgic for Normal People’s lockdown thrills and still rooting for its central couple

Fremantle acquires majority stake in Element Pictures, co-founded by Ed Guiney

Director Lenny Abrahamson and cast talk about adapting the author’s debut novel

Ciarán Lawler finds himself in a Tokyo bookshop reading Peppa Pig Goes to Ireland

The sitcom writer on her childhood, becoming Jessica Fletcher and her big break