Words Ireland make pre-Budget submission for increase in financial backing for writers

Tóibín’s error when discussing the prose in genre fiction was to move from ‘I just get bored’ to ‘it’s blank, it’s nothing’

‘Even at the end of her life when she had Alzheimer’s, she remembered she was from Ireland’

The murdered writer cared about breaking silences, writes her publisher, Faber’s Louisa Joyner

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

Irish subsidiary recorded a 36 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to €3.39m last year

Not all literary awards find it easy to fully forget their old corporate partners

Not all literary awards find it easy to fully forget their old corporate partners

Irish novelist is one of five category winners and goes on to compete for Costa Book of the Year on January 29th

This year saw the first graphic novel to be nominated for a Man Booker prize

News, views and opinions from Student Hub contributors and Irish Times writers

Novelist to bring her own work to small screen with Oscar-nominated Irishman

The Scottish novelist on being a thorn in the literary establishment’s side

Round-up of reads features no less than three octogenarians and one nonagenarian who have made outstanding contributions to horticulture

The Dubliner on the savagery of school, how being famous is easy in Ireland, and getting older

‘I come with the experience of finding the stories that need to be told,’ says Chris Baldwin

Author and humanitarian to speak at Immrama Festival of Travel Writing in Lismore

Author writes six-page letter to Arts Council describing proposals as ‘oddly North Korean’

Author, broadcaster and champion of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, about women forced to bear children, is shooting back up bestseller lists

Three families explain how happy they are to be settling into new houses this December

The ungovernable city known as Gomorrah has experienced a ‘riscatto’ – redemption – thanks to the popularity of Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels

Sub-contracting responsibility for refugees to Ankara sees refugees as a threat to be kept out, not human beings in need of shelter

1916/2016: a miscellany

Pundits underestimated films’ potential ahead of Academy Awards announcement

Impressive show for German language writers with 11 titles among 160 nominated

As the film of ‘Brooklyn’ gets good reviews, Tóibín’s status at home and abroad rises yet another notch

‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ is based on attempt to kill reggae king Bob Marley

‘Big’ may have seduced Man Booker 2015 judges, while Anne Enright left on longlist

Tom McCarthy’s ‘Satin Island’ is the highlight of a varied and intriguing selection

Eileen Battersby: Europe’s streets lined with people too exhausted by six years of grief

Irish Heritage Trust wins Cultural Heritage prize for work on Fota House project

Dublin life has changed little as the books were the product of the recession Doyle says

Michael D Higgins presents distinguished service awards for Irish abroad at the Áras

The Tasmanian’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about Australian POWs doomed to build the Burma Death Railway, is the first great work to win the Booker since 2001

Controversial Corkman discusses management alongside Martin O’Neill

Review: the chillingly formidable author has produced an ill-judged study of a legal mind

No Irish authors make the cut but two US writers feature for the first time

You know him as the ever-so-nice Matthew on Downton Abbey, but he’s toned up and turned into an all-American bad boy for The Guest. ‘It has been nice to take the stiff collar off for a bit’