Publication in plain English marks 40 years of the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA)

Among the nominees are Ryan Tubridy, Cecelia Ahern, John Banville, Molly McCloskey, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

What will the capital look like years, centuries, even millenniums from now? Dublin in the Coming Times invites the people of the city to imagine how their home will change. Christine Dwyer Hickey continues the series with a short story imagining a future Dublin

The long-standing Duck restaurant in Gorey has a confidence about its food and service

‘What starts out as an adventure becomes a habit, and a well-fed habit can only go one way’

‘In the hotel bar, late in the evening, four middle-aged men cautiously crossed the floor’

‘As a teenager I went on the gur many times. But then a friend helped me to realise that an unhappy home is better than no home at all’

Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books

Writers can get very angry but they shouldn’t go to the gym: these and other literary nuggets were divulged in Bantry

‘There is no better way to appreciate another culture or to begin to understand the lives of others than through a well-written novel’

One of Ireland’s finest poets reviews the career of our Book Club author, from Tatty to The Lives of Women: 'her work sustains a voice, and evokes a place, with exceptional control'

Doughnuts and cigarettes or blindfold, earmuffs and earplugs? Writers can have odd ways of getting ready for their working day – or night. Gavin Corbett, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Henrietta McKervey, Thomas Morris and Paul Murray take us into their creative worlds

Irish Women Writers: ‘Novelist, short-story writer and playwright, as diverse and original a talent as one could hope to find’

Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction