Sally Rooney and Cecelia Ahern set for TV stardomA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Aug 23 2018 - 17:14
Edith Eger book offer with The Irish Times this SaturdayA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Aug 16 2018 - 05:32
How Growth Really Happens: Reflecting on the making of economic miraclesInsightful and expansive study of economic growth is a little heavy on academic languageSat Aug 4 2018 - 06:00
Three Irish longlisted for Man Booker PrizeA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Jul 26 2018 - 16:07
Secret Nation review: insight into the invisible Armenians in TurkeyAvedis Hadjian presents a genocide-scarred culture where Armenians deny their identitySat Jul 21 2018 - 05:46
Books for the beach – and the brain – this summerJohn Banville, Kathleen MacMahon, John Boyne, Joseph O’Connor and more on what they’ll be readingSat Jul 7 2018 - 06:00
Irish Times Africa Day writing competition winning entriesRead the work of winners Lara El-Kadi, Natasha Sutton and Oluwasegun SerikiFri Jul 6 2018 - 13:28
Children of the Rising author Joe Duffy to co-author book on Troubles’ child victimsDuffy and co-writer Freya McClements appeal for families’ help to make book completeFri Jul 6 2018 - 05:11
Hubert Butler Essay Prize launchedPrize commemorates great Irish writer and humanitarian and promotes essay-writingFri Jun 29 2018 - 12:08
Preti Taneja wins Desmond Elliott PrizeA sneak preview of Saturday's books pagesFri Jun 22 2018 - 00:28
Mike McCormack wins International Dublin Literary AwardValerie O’Riordan, Chris Connolly and Anne Patterson on Society of Authors award shortlistsFri Jun 15 2018 - 10:33
Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire wins Women’s Prize for FictionWhat’s coming up in Saturday’s books pagesThu Jun 7 2018 - 12:37
Paul Lynch’s ‘Grace’ wins Irish Novel of the Year AwardA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu May 31 2018 - 16:19
‘Grace’ by Paul Lynch wins Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year AwardColette Bryce’s ‘Selected Poems’ wins Pigott Poetry Prize at Listowel Writers’ WeekWed May 30 2018 - 21:30
Man Booker International Prize 2018: Olga Tokarczuk wins £50,000 awardAuthor of the ‘beguilingly experimental’ Flights becomes first Pole to take prizeTue May 22 2018 - 21:45
Sinéad Gleeson on The Long Gaze Back: The Irish Times Book Club podcastOur conversation ranged over literary archaeology to her championing of new voices and the cultural and social context surrounding the anthologyMon Apr 30 2018 - 16:00
Women’s Prize shortlist and Trinity’s translatorsWhat’s coming up in Saturday’s books pagesThu Apr 26 2018 - 16:14
One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century review – highly original, hypnotic workReaders seeking striking European voices should embrace this novelSat Apr 21 2018 - 06:00
Fergal Keane wins Christopher Ewart-Biggs memorial prize for ‘Wounds’Marianne Elliott awarded special £5,000 prize for advancing understanding of Irish history in BritainWed Apr 11 2018 - 17:00
Arise, Dame Edna: Irish author Edna O’Brien is made a DBEAuthor, 88, from Co Clare has enjoyed a long and distinguished career since making her name with The Country Girls in 1962Tue Apr 10 2018 - 11:02
Bernard MacLaverty and Sally Rooney on shortlist for Irish Novel of the Year'Midwinter Break' and 'Conversations With Friends' are two of five books on Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award shortlistFri Mar 23 2018 - 09:00
Manus Boyle Tobin is named Hennessy New Irish Writer of the YearAaron Finnegan and Louise G Cole win awards and Bernard MacLaverty inducted into Hall of FameWed Mar 21 2018 - 21:00
Mark O’Connell on £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize shortlistRivals include Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing and Nigerian novelist Ayobami AdebayoTue Mar 20 2018 - 00:01
YA fiction reviews: from suffragettes to spiesNew releases make the most of International Women’s Day with plenty of female storiesSat Mar 17 2018 - 00:00
Want to know about Ireland now? Here are the books to readA Minister, a historian and 13 Irish writers select the modern works - from Ross O'Carroll-Kelly to Donal Ryan - that capture for them the state of the countryFri Mar 16 2018 - 12:00
Man Booker International: Irish translator has two books on listFrank Wynne’s translations of Javier Cercas’s The Impostor and Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex 1 up for £50,000 prizeMon Mar 12 2018 - 14:00
‘Val Mulkerns wrote like a fighter’: Irish authors pay tributeSebastian Barry, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, Joseph O’Connor, Mary O’Donnell, Carlo Gébler, Helena Mulkerns, Ita Daly and Dermot Bolger pay tribute to the leading author, who has died, aged 93Mon Mar 12 2018 - 10:31
‘She just can’t be gone.’ Tributes to ‘warrior’ Emma Hannigan‘Emma was the epitome of strength, love and generosity, beyond anything I have known’Mon Mar 5 2018 - 10:44
Chilling thrillers and stone cold classics to read on World Book DayAs Storm Emma has us all under curfew, we list some great books to read by the fireThu Mar 1 2018 - 12:34
Edna O’Brien: Lolita author Nabokov was ‘scathing of women’‘Country Girls’ author on ‘our unhinged times’ as she receives $50,000 Pen awardWed Feb 21 2018 - 09:00
Love poems: ‘For one night only naked in your arms’ – 14 poets pick their favourites'It was Yeats’s lessons in lovesex that hit home': poets on their favourite love poems for St Valentine’s DayWed Feb 14 2018 - 06:00
Travels through Dictatorland: how African despots cling to powerHumane, timely and accessible work shines a light on urgent African issuesSat Feb 10 2018 - 06:00
Three Irish writers on £30,000 Wellcome Prize longlistBernard MacLaverty, Maggie O’Farrell and Mark O’Connell on 12-strong longlist for prize celebrating books about health and medicineThu Feb 8 2018 - 12:00
Tributes pour in for much-loved writer Philip Casey (67)Author of acclaimed Bann trilogy and four poetry collections was at the heart of Irish literary worldMon Feb 5 2018 - 12:46
Baileys origin story is cream of Irish Times Books in 2017A look at the 10 most popular literary articles of the yearFri Dec 22 2017 - 15:55
Something to smile about: Roddy Doyle is still our favourite Irish authorTicket Awards 2017: ‘Smile’, Doyle’s powerful story of a middle-aged Dubliner dealing with memories of abuse, has topped our inaugural books poll – and the critics loved it tooSat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00
Fiction, history, humour, emotion: The best books of 2017You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn stuff ... Writers name their favourite works of the yearSat Dec 9 2017 - 06:00
Oh My God! Aisling authors sign six-figure deal and film could be nextCúirt highlights; major Seamus Heaney exhibition; book deals for Niamh Boyce and debut author from DerryThu Dec 7 2017 - 15:23
Ticket Awards 2017: The best books of the yearHere are our best reads of the last yearSat Dec 2 2017 - 06:00
Mountains to Sea festival highlights revealedIrish Times Poetry Now Award judges namedSat Dec 2 2017 - 06:00
Book Quiz: Philip Roth’s middle name and Synge’s island?10 bookish brain teasersSat Dec 2 2017 - 00:00
Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards winners revealedBernard MacLaverty, Marian Keyes and Atlas of the Irish Revolution get the big breaksWed Nov 29 2017 - 00:00
Patrick Kavanagh remembered: O shiny great soul of MonaghanLeading poets and writers take a fresh look at the writer on the 50th anniversary of his deathSat Nov 25 2017 - 06:00
Eoin McHugh to be HarperCollins’ publishing director in IrelandEavan Boland is to receive Bob Hughes Lifetimes Achievement Award at Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book AwardsThu Nov 23 2017 - 12:00
Three Irish writers on Costa Book Award shortlistsKarl Geary, Sarah Crossan and Sinéad Morrissey among nominationsTue Nov 21 2017 - 19:30
The Book Quiz: ‘Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man’Seamus Heaney’s biographer, Goldsmith Prize winner, and who wrote ‘The Birds’Sat Nov 18 2017 - 06:00
Nicola Barker wins Goldsmiths Prize with H(a)ppyPrize dominated by Irish writers goes to English author for first timeWed Nov 15 2017 - 20:00