Dublin Literary Award 2025: Seven Irish authors on longlist for €100,000 prize
Irish authors Paul Lynch, Colin Barrett, John Boyne, Sinéad Gleeson and Nuala O’Connor also among 71 nominees for €100,000 fiction prize
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The best books of 2024 so far: writers and critics choose their favourite reads
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
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This list has something for everyone with books covering dystopian realities, historical settings, criminal capers and familiar places
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Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson: There is a lyricism to this magical and otherworldly debut novel
An island, cut off from the mainland, is a perfect setting for a haunting story such as this
Sinéad Gleeson: ‘If I go too long without writing I feel a bit off. I can’t imagine not doing it’
Twelve years ago the critic, memoirist and broadcaster began crafting what would become her debut novel. It’s been a tough process but she has embraced the writing life
Six overlooked women writers to discover on International Women’s Day
From a former hunger striker immersed in the supernatural, to a writer more censored than John McGahern, Sinéad Gleeson selects six women writers who shouldn’t be forgotten any longer
The best books of 2021 so far: Novels, memoirs, short stories and more
Authors and critics choose the books that have moved and impressed them this year
Eimear Ryan: ‘I thought that there was some trick to writing a novel’
‘Writing is in your head. Camogie is spontaneous and physical,’ says debut author and GAA player
The Child: A great book inspired by the pram in the hall
Kjersti A Skomsvold’s compelling account of an artist’s journey to motherhood
The Panic Years: In search of motherhood
Book review: Journalist Nell Frizzell wanted a baby but her bodyclock was a time bomb
Man found with almost €1m in bag of onions returned to jail
Court jails man for additional year over discovery of cash ‘destined for Kinahan gang’
Nudity, teenage sex, porno movies and plain old fornication: Liveline has it all
Joe Duffy can’t believe his luck – er, sorry, ears – when callers splutter about Normal People
The Lexicon of Babies, a short story by Sinéad Gleeson
A parable on parenthood by the author of the award-winning essay collection, Constellations
Coronavirus: ‘Loss of freedom ... quite a shock at the beginning’
In their 70s, Dublin couple Brendan and Breda Butler feel hemmed in by cocooning
Sinéad Gleeson: On My Culture Radar
Author on Agnes Martin’s self-isolation, Elaine Feeney’s new book and comedy of Maeve Higgins
Irish writers on Covid-19: ‘We’re all having a shockin’ dose of the wombles’
‘It’s unexpectedly romantic,’ says John Boyne. ’It shows us our true selves,’ says Patricia Scanlan
Anne Enright: ‘As a writer, your problems are your solutions’
Her new work, Actress, is about a mother-daughter relationship in bohemian Dublin
Irish writers on Election 2020: ‘I want a revolutionary party’
Irish authors assess the outgoing government’s legacy and what the next one needs to do
Nollaig na mBan events to take place across the country
Literature events, art exhibitions and charity fundraisers planned for Little Christmas
Fintan O'Toole: The big question of the last decade is...
The Decade in Culture: t’s up to us to reclaim the private self from Google and Facebook
Keeping it in the family
Some of Ireland’s most successful family-run companies share the secrets of their success
Rick O’Shea: ‘I was never passionate about the idea of being on the radio’
The man born Paul Crossan has gone from pop jock to credible host of RTÉ's Book Show
Sinéad Gleeson: Rediscovering the shared frequency of music and writing
The writer on creating a world for a new album by her husband’s band, Mount Alaska
Minister rejects artists’ call for protection of Joyce’s ‘House of the Dead’
Letter urges Government to ‘save’ 15 Usher’s Island after plans lodged to turn Dublin house into 56-bed hostel
DotMD: bringing kindness back into the medical profession
This year’s conference aimed to reconnect health professionals with their humanity
Visits back home to Ireland will always rekindle grief
This trip was to show my daughter her Irish family, and the land that shaped me
Cathal Coughlan: On My Cultural Radar
The Fatima Mansions and Microdisney singer on Gerhard Richter’s paintings, the cinematic works of Rainer Fassbinder, and Aidan Gillen’s ‘brooding menace’
Skin by EM Reapy: An evocative depiction of the backpacking life
Book review: EM Reapy, from Mayo, has a lot to live up to after her award-winning debut
Why is Irish literature thriving? Because its writers and publishers take risks
Whether from Sally Rooney or Edna O’Brien, experimentalism has never frightened Irish readers
‘I can’t do thrillers or spy novels or genre fiction. I just get bored'
The author Colm Tóibín discusses female Irish novelists, families, and when he wishes he had a TV
Working with a disability: ‘It hurts to be unable to fulfil your own potential’
For a Clontarf woman with a chronic illness joining the working world is filled with setbacks
Elizabeth Day: 'As an English child in Belfast, I thought I was seen as the occupier'
Author and journalist on growing up in Northern Ireland, and learning from her 'failures'
Sinéad Gleeson: As a teenager in hospital, I found hope in Frida Kahlo
Artists showed a parallel creative life was possible, one that overshadows patient life
Anne Enright: How Sinéad Gleeson kicked my reluctant, sad, smouldering feminism
The Booker winner on Constellations, her fellow writer’s powerful, painful new book
Welcome to the Minajerie: This week’s big pop and rock gigs
Viv Albertine, Nick Harper, Bastille, Kelsey Lu and a 90s nu-metal/pop-punk double bill
Dublin film festival highlights and guest stars revealed
Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival includes Alexandra McGuinness thriller
Policing the borderlands of fiction and non-fiction
For serious writers, invention in reportage remains taboo
Guardian’s modern Ireland book recommendations are ‘b*ll*cks’
Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland
The ultimate Irish bucket list: Croagh Patrick, the Gaeltacht, soda bread
What’s the one thing every Irish person should do before they die?
James Kelman: ‘Irish writers get cushy jobs because they never challenge a single damn thing’
The Scottish novelist on being a thorn in the literary establishment’s side
Kenny puts the boot in on misery, as Tubridy gets an early Christmas present
Gleeson reminds book lovers what they’ll be missing when she departs the airwaves
New fiction review: Room Little Darker by June Caldwell
It is fifty shades darker as submissive sex and rubber-clad gimps vie for attention
Sorry to interrupt, but I’m a doctor. That’s what we do
One of the best things doctors could do for patients is to listen to them
Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards winning authors revealed
Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones is novel of the year. Winners include Marian Keyes, Graham Norton, Paul Howard, Paul O’Connell and Tana French
Dublin Book Festival: eight to see this weekend
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
Rosemary Jenkinson interview: ‘Belfast dialect is like Synge on acid’
Rosemary Jenkinson discusses The Glass Shore and her new collection Aphrodite’s Kiss and Further Stories with academic Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado
Ecotherapy: when your prescription is a walk in the woods
Nature-based interventions for mental health involve gardens, animal therapy and more
Maeve Brennan story: The Day We Got Our Own Back
In 1922, when she was five, unfriendly men with revolvers raided the Brennan family home in Ranelagh, Dublin, in search of Maeve’s father, who was on the run
What’s hot and what’s not this week?
Taking a dip in favour of sea swimming, but bags of herbs are less of a winner
Choice Music Prize Shortlist announced
Girl Band, Villagers and Róisín Murphy among the shortlist for the Irish album of the year prize
Radio review: Peter Sutherland’s secular sermon sits uneasily with his high-flying history
With his elite CV, the UN envoy is an unlikely but vocal champion of refugees, while Brian Eno goes high and low in a compelling talk
Anne Enright’s The Green Road wins top prize at Irish Book Awards
Joe Duffy, Sara Baume, Jim McGuinness, Louise O’Neill, Donal Ryan, Sinéad Gleeson and Niall Breslin among winners at Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2015
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