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The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 25 to No 1
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
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The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 50 to No 26
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 100 to No 51
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts – authors, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers and journalists – to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of the years 2000-2025
I wanted to write a book about Irish women’s writing. They told me to include men
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North stars: ‘The vitality of Northern Irish writing has always coincided with political upheaval’
Belfast has a healthy literary scene, closely connected with Queen’s University, whose creative writing tutors include poets Gail McConnell and Stephen Sexton
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Ukrainian community in Ireland overwhelmed with support and donations
Lucy Caldwell: ‘In ways it was a normal childhood...and yet’
Author on how the Troubles affected her life, her writing and her Irish identity
Fintan O’Toole: Somebody McSomebody is spreading Covid in Ireland
We have chosen not to properly track the virus. The result is endless lockdown
Douglas Stuart wins 2020 Booker Prize for Shuggie Bain
Debut author is second Scot to win with very personal tale of poverty and addiction
International Dublin Literary Award: Anna Burns becomes first Irish woman to win €100,000 prize
Troubles novel has already won Man Booker and Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prizes
Wretchedness: Exposing Sweden’s sad underbelly
Andrzej Tichý rages over injustices in a searing novel about Sweden’s marginalised
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Turner Prize nominee surprised at North’s lack of protests over Brexit
Film exploring role of women in civil rights movement shortlisted for prestigious award
Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo are joint winners
Evaristo is first black woman to win prize; Handmaid’s Tale sequel is second win for Atwood
Why is Irish literature thriving? Because its writers and publishers take risks
Whether from Sally Rooney or Edna O’Brien, experimentalism has never frightened Irish readers
‘I can’t do thrillers or spy novels or genre fiction. I just get bored'
The author Colm Tóibín discusses female Irish novelists, families, and when he wishes he had a TV
Troubles-based books Milkman and Say Nothing win Orwell prizes
Anna Burns’s novel and Patrick Radden Keefe’s study of Jean McConville’s murder honoured
‘Lyra McKee may be dead, but she will not be lost and she will not be silenced’
The murdered writer cared about breaking silences, writes her publisher, Faber’s Louisa Joyner
Anna Burns among new members elected to Aosdána
Affiliation of creative artists in Ireland elects six new people to vacant positions
Give it a lash: 100 questions to test your Irishness
Win a €250 Kenny’s hamper, delivered anywhere in the world. Ah, go on, go on, go on ....
Hodges Figgis store in Dublin second-best performer in Waterstones group
Irish subsidiary recorded a 36 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to €3.39m last year
Skin: On My Culture Radar
Skunk Anansie singer on her admiration of Domhnall Gleeson, Colin Murray and Arinzé Kene
Sally Rooney wins Costa Novel Award for ‘Normal People’
Irish novelist is one of five category winners and goes on to compete for Costa Book of the Year on January 29th
The 2018 Irish Times Christmas Prize Quiz
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Anna Burns: The Booker winner on why she is unable to write
She went from poverty to bestseller status with 'Milkman'. Now, chronic pain prevents her from writing
U2 serve up celebration and solidarity in Belfast
Ahead of four shows at Dublin’s 3Arena next week, Bono and co. serve up a night of celebration in Belfast
Neil Shawcross donates 36 paintings to his adopted city
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