Women writers

There are many poignant moments, but the main character’s inner monologue is often scathingly funny

Danielle McLaughlin’s new novel is inspired by her friend Siobhán Rea’s ritual of daily drawings

To buy time to write a novel, Caitríona Lally worked in the housekeeping department at Trinity College Dublin, where she had once been a student

A desire to ‘rip into a subject that has sat like a succubus on me’ inspired writer’s first novel since 2014

The writer on literary reputation, emigration and ‘the crushing weight of being the only gay in the village’

The award-winning US author ‘refused to write historically’, but Kin, her new novel, is set in the 1960s. She explains why

Author’s new novel Gone for Good is one of three verse thrillers and is based in the Adirondack mountains

As her latest novel is published, the acclaimed Irish author has turned her attention to non-fiction, still writing ‘what obsesses, consumes and distresses’ her

Author’s new novel, The Woman in the Water, is inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca

Banshee is a new collection of stories by contemporary women authors that retell Ireland’s myths and legends through a feminist lens

The great short-story writer’s female protagonists often do the opposite of what they intend. Being unmoored by loss affects their every thought

Prior to streaming, the trailer for Amazon Prime’s adaptation of Ryan Howard’s novel 56 Days had more than 78m views. It’s a ‘fever dream’ for her

Now three books in, as she says, the author and journalist spent many years as a ‘shadow artist’, circling the thing she loved

The author on new book The Killing Time, writing ‘kick-ass older women’, and her fascination with Victorian times

The Australian author on her piercing coming-of-age novel Chosen family, nonbiological family bonds, and teenage queer identity

The author on her debut novel Lost Lambs, tech billionaires, and the worst things about London

Her dour, unflinching portraits of women doing their level best not to lose any part of themselves reek of real life

Journalist’s debut novel is being pitched as Baby Reindeer from the stalker’s perspective

The author on her new Christmas novel; her hopes of it becoming a Hallmark movie; and her belief in fate

In 1930 the detective novelist was commissioned to set a treasure hunt on the island enticing tourists to visit

Authors Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Colin Barrett and Belinda McKeon reflect on the Irish relationship with the magazine ahead of an Abbey Theatre celebration

Irish studies programme in Mexico has introduced students to writers such as Sally Rooney and Claire Keegan

Irish women writers’ success would be a cause for celebration, were it not for those pesky figures

Jen Herron discovered Irish women ghost writers in anthologies, then another in her own attic

Our series celebrating 50 years of women’s writing surveys the fiction, poetry and nonfiction of the early 1980s

Follow-up to much-admired debut Stay with Me focuses on characters from opposite sides of the track

Our series celebrating 50 years of women’s writing surveys the fiction, poetry and nonfiction of the second half of the 1970s

These are the authors who exposed the patriarchal bias in English literature in the 1970s

Irish Times Blook Club: Novelist has chronicled the family across a century of troubled Irish history

The Irish language poet is famously private, but her work is anything but witholding, full of love and laughter, amazement and hope

Irish women writers: ‘A skilled wordsmith capable of wielding an inked scalpel to delightful and dastardly effect’

Irish Women Writers: ‘Ní Chonchúir doesn’t shrink from tackling life’s pain, compromises and savagery, but her rich, original imagery captures its sensual delights also’

Irish Women Writers: one of the great writers in English, her relationship as a southern Protestant exile with the land of her birth, as explored in both her fiction and personal life, was conflicted but fascinating

The Women Writers’ Club hung out in Robert’s Cafe and Jammet’s, not McDaid’s or the Palace Bar, but this radical group fostered a distinctive, modern and decidedly female literary canon

Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘she conveys a poetic, often elegiac, sense of place and portrays characters with richness and depth’

Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘she challenges stereotypical representations of femininity and interrogates nationalist tropes of Ireland as woman’

Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘she gave voice to the preoccupations of a large section of the Irish-American community’

Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘Rather than constantly dealing with the same material and the same human dilemmas, she seeks out new horizons’

Mary Shine had a pleasant surprise when she opened The Irish Times last Saturday. Our poster brought back happy memories of her own project, which she is delighted to share

Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘Skilled, observant and empathetic, Mary Costello chronicles the specific and telling details of everyday lives in pivotal circumstances, and captures human yearning at its most instructive and affecting’