Martin Doyle

Martin Doyle

Books Editor

Martin Doyle is Books Editor of The Irish Times.

Mary O’Donnell: ‘I’d happily sign off on a 10% Leaving Cert bonus for English, music and art’

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

Author Emma Donoghue: ‘I grew up very normal, yet had this secret side that I thought everyone would consider foul’

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

Strokestown poetry prize shortlist revealed

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

Dublin Literary Award 2026 shortlist: ‘Literature at its most international, most ambitious, and most humane’

Award-winning Scottish author Ali Smith, Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong and a Croatian debutant feature on a list with a strong French accent

Author Susannah Dickey: ‘With each book I find myself more invested in writing Ireland’

In the author’s Donegal-set third novel Into the Wreck the vessel of the title ‘represents in some ways the plethora of suppressed histories harboured by families’ across the island

Author Jan Carson: ‘I Googled what would happen if you drained Lough Neagh’

Author’s fourth novel, Few and Far Between, is inspired by a politician’s madcap scheme

Pigott Poetry Prize shortlist announced

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of Saturday’s pages

International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist: women dominate list that ‘reverberates with history’

Novels transport readers from 1930s Japan-ruled Taiwan to Nazi-controlled Europe, from magic and domesticity in 1990s France to the Iranian Revolution in 1979

Sheila O’Flanagan: Losing family members makes you aware of how fragile our connections are

Ahead of her latest release Secrets Between Friends, author talks about loss, the challenges facing female writers and snobbery in the industry

Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride win Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

Neil Tully’s The Visit: ‘I wrote the sort of novel I like to read – a small town, a sense of trouble lurking’

The first-time novelist talks inspiration, the influence of JFK on Ireland, and troubled outcasts

Seán Hewitt on Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

Anna Burns: ‘When I got damaged in surgery, nothing else mattered. I’ve always lived in survival mode’

The Booker Prize-winning author on writing through the pain, growing up in Belfast’s Murder Triangle and getting sober after leaving the ‘boozy’ city for London

Sarah Crossan: ‘Meeting amazing teenagers was a highlight of being Laureate na nÓg’

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

Cúirt festival line-up revealed

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

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