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This year
2024
Handling heartbreak: 'Rejection does not make you a reject, it just means they weren't for you'
Mark Fennell
19 Feb
8.0k
10
Extract: 'I felt a kind of bereavement for the Mayo of my youth and my stories'
Colin Barrett
12 Feb
12.5k
1
Ellen Keane: I used to want to be like everyone else but now I know my arm is my superpower
Ellen Keane
3 Feb
13.2k
6
Last year
2023
Gill Perdue: From Cagney and Lacey to Bad Sisters, strong female characters are a joy to watch
Gill Perdue
Updated 22 Jun 2023
12.8k
21
US literary icon Cormac McCarthy has died aged 89
Updated 13 Jun 2023
12.8k
21
Extract: 'My teacher gave me power with that small bundle of towel, flannel, and pants'
Dr Katriona O'Sullivan
3 Jun 2023
39.3k
10
Author: Building young adult fiction requires a set of strong characters
Sam Blake
21 May 2023
6.0k
1
'That is an urban myth': John Boyne claims he never had a spat with Auschwitz memorial museum
11 Mar 2023
19.7k
All time
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2022 Booker Prize
17 Oct 2022
8.8k
1
'It felt like it was whispered to me every day': Donal Ryan on the unexpected genesis of his latest novel
21 Aug 2022
21.9k
5
Author: 'I knew those neo-Nazi classmates were living in a sort of oblivion of meaninglessness'
Conner Habib
20 Aug 2022
20.9k
8
Salman Rushdie's family say he has 'life-changing injuries' but his sense of humour is 'intact'
Updated 14 Aug 2022
28.8k
'How to murder your husband' writer found guilty of killing husband
26 May 2022
28.6k
Opinion: I look back at the surgery and trauma and ask myself - how did I get through it all?
Marguerite Penrose
12 May 2022
44.6k
Opinion: We don’t grant girls autonomy, but when we do, it’s because something is their fault
Catherine Prasifka
9 Apr 2022
32.0k
19
Opinion: 'There are few intergenerational battles as charged as the quest for the mobile phone'
Eithne Shortall
11 Feb 2022
17.0k
0
Tributes paid to author and journalist Colm Keane, who has died aged 70
Updated 22 Jan 2022
75.1k
13
Author Alice Sebold apologises to man wrongly jailed for raping her
1 Dec 2021
45.5k
Neflix acquires the whole works of Roald Dahl
22 Sep 2021
28.9k
14
The Worst Witch author Jill Murphy dies aged 72
20 Aug 2021
21.8k
4
The Irish Read: A short story from Philip Ó Ceallaigh's new collection, Trouble
6 Jun 2021
6.8k
1
Opinion: I had fun jobs, crap jobs, redundancies, got fired - and then I wrote my first book
Lizzy Dent
24 Apr 2021
13.9k
4
Roddy Doyle: 'My books stop being about me the minute I start writing'
13 Oct 2020
13.6k
6
Donal Ryan: 'When I became aware of the darkness in the world, I was so shocked'
20 Aug 2020
34.7k
10
What if Hillary Rodham had never married Bill Clinton? A new novel imagines the results
25 Jul 2020
20.3k
39
Writing in the #MeToo era: 'It was intimidating taking on something in fiction that was happening in real time'
31 Mar 2020
12.0k
6
Eimear McBride: 'The amount of 'she's not a genius, she's a very naughty girl' I've got is just ridiculous'
8 Mar 2020
40.4k
1
Anne Enright: 'Pre-Trump, if you had a problem it was your problem. That's another head-wreck'
19 Feb 2020
18.6k
10
These are the Irish novels to look out for in early 2020
29 Dec 2019
25.2k
4
Best-selling author Lee Child is applying for Irish passport because of Brexit
25 Nov 2019
44.6k
57
A short story before bedtime: Bluebell Meadow by Benedict Kiely
Benedict Kiely
31 Aug 2019
13.1k
2
Jared Diamond: 'It would be imprudent for Ireland to give itself over to self-pity and hatred from the past'
8 Jun 2019
33.7k
40
Opinion: 'Children need to learn about LGBT issues in school - it will reassure them and combat fear'
Robin Stevens
14 May 2019
17.5k
143
The Rebellion against Modern Football: Conifa, unrecognised nations and celebrating the grassroots
5 May 2019
14.5k
14
Opinion: 'Why do we like reading about crime so much in Ireland? Because it offers escapism'
Sam Blake
30 Oct 2018
7.3k
3
Author John Boyne on the night he took 'too many pills' after break-up
11 Aug 2018
32.5k
9
This epic novel explores Ireland's history during a century of hurt and shame
8 Jul 2018
24.1k
55
Children's book award drops Laura Ingalls Wilder's name over racist content
25 Jun 2018
41.1k
115
By day, John Shevlin makes hats, but once a year he transforms into James Joyce
16 Jun 2018
7.8k
3
Patrick McCabe: 'There's a danger there's a tolerance of worthiness and political correctness in fiction that I find unattractive'
10 Apr 2018
14.1k
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