Neil Hegarty

Contributor

Neil Hegarty, a contributor to The Irish Times, is a novelist and biographer.

Cacophony of Bone by Kerri ní Dochartaigh: Moth-fluttering moments of insight

Time and the natural world are at the heart of this new work by the author of Thin Places

Cuddy by Benjamin Myers: Tracing some of the manifold threads of history

Fragmentation of St Cuthbert’s story reveals the author’s true subject to be the plasticity of history itself

Wild Embrace by Anja Murray is replete with practical tips for connecting with our natural world

A book that is most powerfully effective in its appeal to our deeper feelings

An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: the wonders of rewilding

Book review: Eoghan Daltun has written a fascinating account of ecological rejuvenation on the Beara peninsula

Saint of Lost Things by Tish Delaney: The Troubles are over, the troubles just begun

Delaney shows deftly that our dreams need never abandon us, even in the face of brutality and abjection

The Quiet Whispers Never Stop: Powerful, uncompromising debut novel

Book Review: Olivia Fitzsimons is the latest writer from Northern Ireland to demonstrate value of plurality of experiences

The Slowworm’s Song review: Troubling tale of dehumanising army experience

Andrew Miller elegantly examines guilt and remorse in the wake of a moment in Belfast

The New Frontier. Reflections from the Irish Border: True North

Complex and timely collection offers visions of decoded or reimagined borders

The Sisters Mao by Gavin McCrea: All the world’s a stage

Ideas flow ceaselessly and impact in unexpected ways in this compendious novel

The Garden: Urgent, eloquent rebuke to our pillaging of nature

Book review: Paul Perry slyly ironises a variety of cultural and literary tropes

Inventory: Powerful, layered story of growing up in Derry

Book review: Darran Anderson has placed a deliberate and fundamental uncertainty at the heart of this book

Bruised, Not Broken: Deft portrayal of Phil Coulter’s life

Book review: Culture and politics merge in compelling autobiography

Neil Hegarty: How I went about painting my new novel

A Caravaggio exhibition, gentrification and the improbability of the art world planted a seed that became The Jewel

The Offing review: timely lament for the crumbling best of England

Benjamin Myers’s state-of-nation tale paints grief and beauty and eroding shorelines

Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland’s Patron Saint review

Roy Flechner shines light into historical shadows engulfing Ireland’s famous saint