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Martin Doyle

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Little Faith by Nickolas Butler is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

A preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest literary news

Little Faith by Nickolas Butler is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

A preview of Saturday’s books pages and round-up of the latest literary news

Sarah Moss, author and new creative writing assistant professor at UCD. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell for The Irish Times
Sarah Moss: ‘Ireland is progressing while England is rapidly and deliberately regressing’

Sarah Moss, acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, talks about leaving Brexit behind to move to Ireland and teach in UCD

Daisy Jones and the Six is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer

The latest book news and a sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Jonathan Coe: the judges called his 13th novel, Middle England, a scathingly comic portrayal of the social and family divisions that bedevil Brexit Britain, “the perfect novel for now”. Photograph: Getty Images
Costa Book Awards 2019 winners revealed

Jonathan Coe’s Middle England wins novel award as debut authors win three categories

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley is this weekend’s Irish Times offer at Eason

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, a Holocaust love story based on a true story
The bestselling book in Ireland for 2019 revealed

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris is Ireland’s bestselling book for a second year

Caragh Maxwell: a second-year student at Sligo IT, her essay was the most popular article in Irish Times Books this year
Irish Times Books 2019: our most-read articles

A student’s moving essay on her body pipped Irish writers’ views on Brexit for first place

Diana Athill’s prose is luscious, her themes contemporary and the narrative will entertain the reader until the end. File photograph: Eamonn McCabe
Riveting reissue aged like a good wine

Brief reviews of Don’t Look at Me Like That, The Manager’s Tale, Above Average at Games, Stories of the Sahara, Through Her Eyes a(...)

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Eithne Shortall: Three Little Truths also tackles weighty subjects
Witty, clever observations of modern life

Book reviews: Three Little Truths by Eithne Shortall; Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard; Farewell Happy Fieldsby Norah Houl(...)

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite is Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages and round-up of Irish book news and events

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite is Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages and round-up of Irish book news and events

Christmas gifts for readers: The Irish Times guide to best books of 2019

Irish writers and critics on their favourite fiction and nonfiction of the past 12 months

Caitriona Lally, award-winning author of Eggshells. Photograph: Alan Betson
Caitriona Lally awarded $100,000 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Edna O’Brien at her home in London in 2006. Photograph: Frank Miller
Edna O’Brien wins the ‘UK and Ireland Nobel award’ for lifetime achievement

Country Girls author receives £40,000 David Cohen prize which is seen as Nobel precursor

Joseph O’Connor: Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. Photograph: Eric Cabanis / AFP/ Getty Images
Costa book awards: Joseph O’Connor shortlisted for Shadowplay

Author last week won Irish Novel Award for his biographical fiction about Bram Stoker

Actor Christopher Eccleston has written a deeply personal book about his life and career. File photograph: BBC Pictures
Browser: Christopher Eccleston offers a haunting meditation on fatherhood
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Brief reviews of I Love the Bones of You, The Sea Cloak and Other Stories and Resist! How to be an Activist in the Age of Defiance

Redemption by David Baldacci is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Joseph O’Connor: winner of Novel of the Year for Shadowplay. Photograph: Gerry Stanford
An Post Irish Book Awards 2019 winners revealed

Joseph O’Connor, Sinéad Gleeson, Joe Duffy and Freya McClements among winners

The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz is this week’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018, has been longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Photograph: EPA/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA
Nobel and Booker Prize winners on 2020 International Dublin Literary Award longlist

Anna Burns, Sally Rooney, David Park, Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke vie for €100,000 prize

The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Rick O’Shea
Rick O’Shea takes over RTÉ’s The Book Show

A sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages and details of our Eason book offer

At the An Post Irish Book Awards shortlist announcement were nominated authors Richie Sadlier, Sinead Moriarty, Joseph O’Connor, Catherine Ryan Howard, Andrea Corr, Sophie White, Peter Donnelly and Caelainn Hogan. Photograph: Patrick Bolger
Irish Book Awards 2019 shortlists revealed

Kevin Barry and Edna O’Brien up for Novel of the Year and Aisling authors shortlisted again

Dracul by Dacre Stoker with JD Barker is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Sarah Crossan: Here is the Beehive, about an affair which ends in tragedy and then takes a twist, is to be published next August. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan signs six-figure deal for first adult novel

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Cruel Acts by Jane Casey is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Ciaran Carson
‘Ciaran Carson drew Belfast better than anyone I ever read’

Sinéad Morrissey, John Banville and fellow writers salute a great man and a great poet

Tana French’s The Wych Elm is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Tana French’s The Wych Elm is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Mark O’Connell has been awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2019 at Trinity College Dublin. Photograph: Fennell Photography
Author Mark O’Connell awarded €10,000 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2019

To Be A Machine author won Wellcome Prize last year for exploration of transhumanism

The Wall by John Lanchester is this week’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Danielle McLaughlin: “I’m a new writer, but not a young writer. It’s never too late for anybody to start writing and human beings don’t stop having stories to tell, just because we’ve got older.” Photograph: Claire O’Rorke
Danielle McLaughlin wins £30,000 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award

Win caps rich year for Cork author after $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize in March

The Wall by John Lanchester is this week’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Lyra McKee: “sought truth as a journalist not simply by asking difficult questions, but perhaps more crucially by listening rigorously – and open-heartedly – to the answers.” Photograph: Jess Lowe/ AFP / Getty Images
Faber to mark anniversary of Lyra McKee’s murder with an anthology of her work

Lyra McKee: Lost, Found, Remembered will be published next April

Catherine O’Flynn: “it’s often themes and atmospheres I’m keen to get across. I quite like books that don’t have much of a plot.”
‘I grew up in a weird Irish bubble. There is a lot about loss in my books’

Martin Doyle interviews award-winning Birmingham Irish novelist Catherine O’Flynn

The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz is new Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Frank Ormsby: “The collaboration of three universities and both arts councils is a bold venture and I am honoured and thrilled to be part of it.”
President announces Frank Ormsby as new Ireland Professor of Poetry

Enniskillen poet was long-time editor of Honest Ulsterman and anthologist of Northern poetry

The books that have been shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize. Photograph: The Booker Prize/PA Wire
Heavyweights Atwood, Rushdie and 1,000-page epic in running for Booker Prize

Winner of £50,000 prize won last year by Anna Burns to be revealed next month

Aerial view of the Hodson Bay Hotel on Lough Ree.
Uncovering the mysteries and thrills of Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands

A trip down the world’s tallest inflatable water slide is a heart-racing introduction

The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz is new Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Darkest Truth by Catherine Kirwan is this weekend’s Eason Irish Times offer

A sneak preview of this Saturday’s book pages

Darkest Truth by Catherine Kirwan is this weekend’s Eason Irish Times offer

A sneak preview of this Saturday’s book pages

Kevin Barry: winner of the Rooney Prize; the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize; the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for City of Bohane; and the Goldsmiths Prize for Beatlebone. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images
Kevin Barry longlisted for 2019 Booker Prize

Former winners Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie longlisted for prize won last year by Anna Burns

Colm Tóibín: “I can’t do any genre-fiction books, really, none of them. I just get bored with the prose. I don’t find any rhythm in it. It’s blank, it’s nothing; it’s like watching TV.” Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Crime writers mystified by Colm Tóibín’s criticism

Literary author’s dismissal of genre fiction provokes backlash

Emily Dickinson
The Conspiracy that Shook an Empire: The Phoenix Park assassinations

Browser review: Julie Dobrow, After Emily; How We Disappeared; Listening to Animals

When All Is Said by Anne Griffin is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s book pages

The support act’s T-shirt shrank so Fatboy Slim made me a mixtape

How culture bridges borders, from the Troubles to Brexit, from the Housemartins in 1986 to Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott in 2019

When All Is Said by Anne Griffin is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s book pages

Wrong milkman: Pat Laffan as lecherous milkman Pat Mustard in Father Ted, not to be confused with the lecherous Milkman in Milkman by Anna Burns
The plot thickens: A list of less than accurate summaries of famous novels

We wrongly described Milkman by Anna Burns as being “about a young woman’s affair with a married man in Troubles-era Belfast”. Her(...)

Emily Ruskovich: “The secrets the book keeps aren’t from readers, they are things I wanted to be honest about not knowing or understanding fully myself.” Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
‘If you are going to find grace anywhere, it is going to be in art’

Emily Ruskovich, International Dublin Literary Award winner, on her Idaho novel, redemption, forgiveness and her deep belief in th(...)

Seán Hewitt
Irish poets Seán Hewitt and James Conor Patterson win Eric Gregory Awards

Norma MacMaster (81) is Paul Torday Memorial Prize runner-up

Author Mick Herron is working on the seventh novel of the Slough House series which is ‘less M15, more 9 to 5’. Photograph: Mikael Buck
‘I sometimes feel like I’m the only spy writer who never worked for the Secret Service’

Mick Herron has been dubbed the le Carré of his generation for his Slough House series

The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton is this week’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Emily Ruskovich: “It is difficult to know how to respond to the magnitude of this kindness that has been so suddenly bestowed upon me.” Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Debut US author Emily Ruskovich (33) wins €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award

‘The recognition is life-changing. The money will give me time. As a writer, that’s so precious’

The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Tayari Jones: “For most of my life, American wasn’t a word I felt was addressed to me without adding black.” Photograph: Nina Subin
Novel praised by Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey wins Women’s Prize for Fiction

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones wins £30,000 prize

Last Stories by William Trevor is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages

David Park: his books include Swallowing the Sun and The Truth Commissioner. Photograph: Alan Betson
€15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year winner revealed

Travelling in a Strange Land by David Park wins award at Listowel Writers’ Week

Joseph O’Connor: “Bram Stoker is the first Irish author I ever heard of, the first Irish author I loved.” Photograph: Eric Cabanis/AFP/Getty Images
Joe O’Connor: ‘The music of a novel is as important as the plot’

Author’s new novel Shadowplay is a complicated love affair featuring Dracula creator Bram Stoker, the first Irish writer he fell f(...)

Sarah Crossan: won the Carnegie Medal in 2016 for her verse novel, One. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
Books podcast: Sarah Crossan on her new YA novel Toffee and on being Laureate na nÓg

Carnegie Medal winner discusses her books and her identity as an Irish person in Britain

Last Stories by William Trevor is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages

Jan Carson: has written a thoroughly captivating and well-paced novel that should hopefully earn her the international recognition she deserves. Photograph: Alan Betson
Jan Carson wins EU Prize for Literature Ireland 2019 for The Firestarters

Novel set in working-class Protestant Belfast explores seductiveness of lust and violence

Kelly McCaughrain: her Flying Tips for Flightless Birds has won the CBI Book of the Year, Eilís Dillon and Children’s Choice awards
Unprecedented hat-trick of awards for debut author Kelly McCaughrain

Flying Tips for Flightless Birds wins CBI Book of the Year, Eilís Dillon and Children’s Choice awards

Jokha Alharthi, winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. Photograph: Peter Summers/Getty Images
Celestial Bodies author Jokha Alharthi wins Man Booker International Prize

Omani becomes first Arabic author to win award and shares £50,000 prize with translator Marilyn Booth

The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen is Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Norma MacMaster: shortlisted for the inaugural Paul Torday Memorial Prize, an award for a first novel by a writer over 60
81-year-old Irish debut novelist shortlisted for Society of Authors award

Church of Ireland minister Norma MacMaster, Sheila Llewellyn and Niall Bourke in running for prizes

Anna Mackmin
Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist revealed

Claire Adam, Michael Donkor and Anna Mackmin in running for £10,000 award

The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen is latest Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Saturday’s Irish Times offer at Eason is Connect by Julian Gough

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

“A classically Irish novel in disguise, a dysfunctional family trying to deal with their traumas. It’s almost a John McGahern novel disguised as a near-future science-fiction novel set in Nevada.”
Connect by Julian Gough is this week’s Irish Times offer at Eason

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Journalist and author Lyra McKee. Photograph: Jess Lowe / AFP /Getty Images
Lyra McKee: Lost Girl of the Troubles

She made her name as a journalist covering the Troubles’ legacy and was set to win fame as an author

Lyra McKee: “a talented journalist and writer who was on the cusp of an incredible career”. Photograph: PA
Lyra McKee a ‘fearless seeker of truth’: fellow writers pay tribute

‘The people who took Lyra’s life are part of the past and will never be allowed to determine our future’

John Boyne: “I chose to write Sam and Jessica’s story as a deliberately imperfect one in order for me to highlight the mistakes people make and how important empathy is.” Photograph: Alan Betson
Puffin says it is ‘proud’ to publish John Boyne’s trans YA novel

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

The judging panel: broadcaster and author James Naughtie; musical comedian and improviser Pippa Evans; Everyman’s Library publisher David Campbell; comedian Sindhu Vee; and vice president of the Hay Festival and director of National Trust Wales, Justin Albert
Roddy Doyle shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

Nina Stibbe makes the shortlist for the third time with Reasons to be Cheerful

The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Rosemary Jenkinson: shortlisted for the EU Prize for Literature for Catholic Boy, published by Doire Press
Northern women dominate Irish €5,000 EU Prize for Literature shortlist

A sneak preview of tomorrow’s books pages

The 10 books shortlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award
Dublin Literary Award: Two Irish authors shortlisted for world’s most valuable books prize

Sally Rooney and Bernard MacLaverty shortlisted for the €100,000 prize

‘Brexit is aggressive and dangerously nostalgic. The UK is in for a brutal chastening’

Eimear McBride, David Park, Sinéad Morrissey, Nick Laird and a host of Irish writers share their views

Novels about Lucia Joyce and Alan Turing win Republic of Consciousness Prize

Will Eaves and Alex Pheby share prize as founder rejects single winner convention

Colin Walsh, Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year 2019
Colin Walsh is named Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year 2019

Mike McCormack joins Hall of Fame as Hennessy ends sponsorship after 48 years

Donal Ryan’s From A Low and Quiet Sea, this week’s Eason offer, up for RSL Ondaatje Prize

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Paula Meehan with her partner, fellow poet Theo Dorgan. Photograph: Kenneth O Halloran
DCU confers poet Paula Meehan with honorary doctorate

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Kevin Breathnach: “His essays demonstrate not only an impressive depth of learning, but an even more necessary depth of feeling,” says Sally Rooney
The Irish Times Books Podcast: with Kevin Breathnach and New Irish Writing’s Ciaran Carty

Listen to the author of ‘Tunnel Vision’ and the man behind the Hennessy Literary Awards

Sarah Davis-Goff: has written an Irish feminist post-apocalyptic novel called Last Ones Left Alive
Best of Irish: 10 rising stars of Irish writing

In advance of St Patrick’s Day, we celebrate leading lights of our creative industries

€15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year shortlist revealed

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Danielle McLaughlin: “I’m a new writer, but not a young writer, and so it’s fortunate for me that the Windham-Campbell awards recognise the work of writers of all ages!”
Irish writer wins $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize

Danielle McLaughlin gives her reaction to her huge success and reveals her next project

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk after winning the Man Booker International Prize 2018. Photograph: Matt Crossick/PA
Man Booker International Prize 2019 longlist dominated by women

Women make up eight of 13 longlisted authors, with all but two of the books published by independent houses

The best books by women of the 21st century

On International Women’s Day, writers and critics pick the best works by women since 2000

Norma McMaster: wrote her debut, Silence Under a Stone, in her 80s
Norma McMaster longlisted for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award in her 80s

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne is this weekend’s Irish Times offer at Eason

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Nicole Flattery: The White Review short story prize winner signed a six-figure deal for her first two books
Nicole Flattery on what inspired her debut, Show Them A Good Time

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Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton: this week’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of tomorrow’s books pages

Valentine’s Day: Impress them with these love poems

Michael Longley, Elaine Feeney and eight other Irish poets choose their favourite romantic verse

Too Close to Breathe by Olivia Kiernan is this week’s Irish Times book offer at Eason

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest literary news

Too Close to Breathe is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Bart van Es who won the Costa Book of the Year Award for The Cut Out Girl. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
Costa Book of the Year: The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es wins £30,000 prize

Normal People by Sally Rooney had been favourite to win £30,000 prize

Emilie Pine, winner of the Irish Book of the Year 2018 for Notes to Self, at the An Post Irish Book Awards last November with her Newcomer of the Year Award. Photograph: Patrick Bolger
An Post Irish Book of the Year 2018 winner revealed

Public voted overall winner from list of individual awards announced in November

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