Martin Doyle

Martin Doyle

Books Editor

Martin Doyle is Books Editor of The Irish Times.

Gráinne O’Brien: ‘I was anxious about things most authors wouldn’t even dream could happen’

Debut author and bookseller on her award-winning novel, Solo, which is written in verse

Irish Writers Centre novel winners revealed

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

Tom Paulin wins PEN Heaney Prize for Namanlagh

Poet honoured for his 10th collection, his firs tin more than 10 years

Caroline Grace-Cassidy on fate: ‘Let’s all believe that our World Cup place is meant to be’

The author on her new Christmas novel; her hopes of it becoming a Hallmark movie; and her belief in fate

Books of the year 2025: Authors and critics pick their favourites

Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices

Kate O’Brien Award now worth £5,000

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

Irish Book Awards 2025: Roisín O’Donnell, Claire Gleeson and Manchán Magan among winners

Jacqueline Connolly, Andrew Porter, Cecelia Ahern, Andrea Mara, Elaine Feeney, Joseph O’Connor and Michael D Higgins also honoured

Annemarie Ní Churreáin: ‘There’s a deep respect embedded in Gaeltacht culture for troublemakers’

Poet reflects on how here upbringing has shaped her works, including her latest collection Hymn to All the Restless Girls

Claire Power is new Poetry Ireland head

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

Hugo Hamilton: ‘I love speaking Irish. It places me in a less aggressive country full of musical links to an ancient past’

The author on his new novel, Conversation with the Sea; his German heritage; and how Germany is in denial about Gaza

Christine Falls by John Banville is One Dublin One Book choice for 2026

Initiative aims to encourage everyone in Dublin to read a designated book connected with the capital city during the month of April

The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year

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

Booker Prize 2025: David Szalay wins for Flesh

‘We had never read anything quite like it,’ says judging panel chair Roddy Doyle of the author’s ‘extraordinary, singular’ novel

Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits

The €10,000 prize, awarded annually since 1976, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40

Author Kevin Smith: ‘Whenever I leave the North I do feel a pull – a hankering for that coded familiarity’

The writer on his latest novel, Injury Time; his favourite funny writers; and the book that always makes him cry

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