A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 – A good listener’s illuminating, engaging conversations
The 60 authors in this ‘career retrospective’ include Claire Keegan, Anne Enright, Maeve Binchy and Sebastian Barry
Bernard MacLaverty
Writer
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
Literary greats gather in Galway city for literature festival
Laureate for Irish Fiction Sebastian Barry and author Paul Lynch among participants
Irish Book Awards starts new chapter with hunt for sponsor
High-profile ceremony seeks replacement partner after Bord Gáis Energy bows out
Silence Under a Stone review: Insipid storyline with a morose character
A staunch Presbyterian woman shows little mercy to her loved ones, or the reader
Shortlists announced for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017
Among the nominees are Ryan Tubridy, Cecelia Ahern, John Banville, Molly McCloskey, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
Bernard MacLaverty: 'My life has been a seamless piece of laziness, work, and thoughts'
A wintertime trip to Amsterdam in 2001 inspired the Belfast-born writer’s new novel, which took 16 years to finish
After the amputation: a powerful rendering of disability
Hopdance review: Stewart Parker’s posthumous memoir novel captures figments of a lost year
Irish writers pick their favourite pieces of music
From traditional tunes to the magic of Mozart, some Irish writers name their favourite tunes, ahead of a concert featuring their picks at the Royal Irish Academy of Music
School of Velocity review: notes on a friendship
A classical pianist looks back on his life in Eric Beck Rubin’s short, meditative novel
The L factor: a literary ambassador for Ireland
Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction
Stranger than fiction: when crime captures the imagination
Nicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroad
Crosswords & Puzzles
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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