Tim MacGabhann: ‘I had a fairly mad recurrence of withdrawal symptoms’
Author talks about his new memoir of addiction and recovery, and the best writing advice he’s heard
Bloomsday was a sporadic, boozy and ill-mannered affair before becoming an annual event in 1994
In 1954 Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin embarked on a drunken pilgrimage including public urination on Sandymount Strand
‘I wanted to do something radical’: Wendy Erskine on her debut novel, which deals with class, rape and parenting
The writer on the necessity of humour amid bleakness, how she likes to challenge her readers, and misogyny in the North
Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke win Women’s Prizes
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Sarah Maria Griffin: ‘I will be trying to figure out what the internet means to me for the rest of my life’
The author on her new novel, Eat the Ones You Love; the importance of libraries; and her love of video games
Siobhán Flynn and Sarah Davy win Mairtín Crawford Awards
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Ciara Geraghty: Author of 10 novels on turning to children’s books
‘I recently kayaked to Holy Island on Lough Derg to visit Edna O’Brien’s grave ... and thanked her for her bravery’
Irish writers up for CWA Dagger awards
Books newsletter: UCD and West Cork History Festivals; Timothy O’Grady launches; North at 50
Niall Williams’s Time of the Child wins Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award
Clare-based author wins €20,000 prize ahead of July release of film adaptation of his debut novel
Author Gethan Dick: ‘I’d make it illegal to buy or sell water. Everyone would adapt within a few weeks’
The visual artist on her debut novel, Water in The Desert, Fire in the Night; apocalypse always; and ‘chaotic, grubby’ Marseilles
Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits wins Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award
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Dublin Literary Award: The Adversary by Canadian author Michael Crummey wins €100,000 prize
Story of sibling rivalry in harsh 19th-century Newfoundland wins Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000
International Booker Prize 2025: Indian author and translators are first to win with a short story collection
Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, chronicles the lives of women in southern India
Paul Durcan: ‘Poetry was a gift that he loved to give others’
Kathleen MacMahon, Conor O’Callaghan, Bernard MacLaverty, Enda Wyley, William Wall, Aifric McGlinchey and Martin Doyle pay tribute
Author Paul Perry: ‘The myth of the starving genius is harmful nonsense’
The writer on his new novel, Paradise House; his writing partnership with Karen Gillece; and the book he’s working on about Samuel Beckett in the French Resistance