Sarah Gilmartin: âEven before relationships and infidelity, desire is a great driverâ
The fiction reviewer turned writer on her new novel, Little Vanities, writing early and often, and novels versus short stories
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Your first eight novels disappear into the ether. Then you strike gold
Itâs no surprise that Virginia Evans has found huge success with The Correspondent, which is now up for the 2026 Womenâs Prize for Fiction
A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 â A good listenerâs illuminating, engaging conversations
The 60 authors in this âcareer retrospectiveâ include Claire Keegan, Anne Enright, Maeve Binchy and Sebastian Barry
A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello: Timely homing in on sorrows particular to women
In Costelloâs novel the protagonist looks back on her life in an effort to determine âwhy we do what we do, or tolerate what we tolerate, or love who we loveâ
Hereâs what youâll be reading in 2026, according to Irish booksellers
With new titles due from the likes of Doireann NĂ GhrĂofa, Colm TĂłibĂn and Donal Ryan, booksellers expect 2026 to be a âbumper yearâ
Sinn FĂ©in TD says heâs a âBob Marley guyâ as Cork accent goes viral in Jamaica
Thomas Gould goes viral; Revenue sniffs out new detector dogs, âbasic laws of physicsâ show Dublin 15 getting a raw deal, Netflix âon boardâ for Keegan adaptation
The Let Them Theory is Irelandâs bestselling book of 2025
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan and The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph OâConnor are bestselling Irish titles
Roddy Doyle: âI got a phone call from one of the New Yorkerâs famous fact-checkersâ
Authors Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Colin Barrett and Belinda McKeon reflect on the Irish relationship with the magazine ahead of an Abbey Theatre celebration
Claire Adam on childhood summers in Ireland: âMy grandmother from Skibbereen lived to 108â
The author on her upbringing in Trinidad, childhood summers in Cork, and William Trevorâs advice to her
Eileen Walsh: Women actors âare like avocados. Youâre nearly ready, nearly ready - then youâre ripe, then youâve gone offâ
The Cork actor, who has returned to live in Ireland after 30 years, on ageing, working with Cillian Murphy, and her upcoming role in a 24-hour play with 100 unknown men
Death of Pope Francis: Derek Mooney leads RTĂâs coverage to intermittently jaw-dropping effect
Radio: The shocked host sounds vaguely peeved at the disruption to his wildlife special
Irish Times readers pick Claire Keeganâs Small Things Like These as the best Irish book of the 21st century
How do your top 25 books compare to the rankings of 60 experts? Claire Keeganâs work is a firm favourite among both groups
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
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: how we made the list and what it says about the state of Irish fiction
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts to select the best Irish books of the years 2000-2025. Hereâs how we did it
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 â authors, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers and journalists â to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of the years 2000-2025
Iftas: Small Things Like These beats Kneecap to win best film award
Cillian Murphy wins award for best actor for second year in a row while Saoirse Ronan picks up two gongs
15 brilliant short books to get you back in the habit of reading
Whether a powerful meditation or a gripping detective story, a classic doesnât have to be 500 pages long
Read this and weep: Books that made writers cry
John Boyne, Edel Coffey, Ferdia Lennon, Sarah Gilmartin and a dozen other authors and critics on books that had a profound emotional effect on them
From Paul Mescal to Bad Sisters to Claire Keegan, the green wave keeps rolling
Unfortunately, the lived experience of creatives working in Ireland is often a struggle
The Oscars arenât fair. Just look at whatâs happening to Cillian Murphy
The actorâs performance in Small Things Like These seems perfectly positioned for an Academy Award nomination. So whatâs gone wrong?
Oprah Winfrey discusses Claire Keeganâs Small Things Like These: âI had never heard of the Magdalene laundriesâ
Winfrey chose Keeganâs novella for the first instalment of her new YouTube series The Oprah Podcast
Cillian Murphyâs view of Ireland in the 1980s as âthe dark agesâ misses the point
Small Things Like These raises a wider question about the communication of our history as one giant, black cloud occasionally interrupted by a lone, bright star
Housewife of the Year: A wistful celebration of a generation of Irish women who competed for ÂŁ300 and a gas stove
Ciaran Cassidyâs fine documentary is filled with much sadness but also allows a fair degree of celebration
Evocative Small Things Like These property could become cosy home, seeking âŹ149,000
New Ross townhouse with shopfront has been in the Walsh family for more than a century
Cillian Murphyâs Small Things Like These has become a cause celebre of the Make Ireland Great Again brigade
Cillian Murphy probably didnât expect to be taken literally when he compared Ireland in the 1980s to the dark ages, but that is where we are now
The Movie Quiz: In what Irish town is Cillian Murphyâs Small Things Like These set?
Plus: What was the only Netflix title among this yearâs Oscar nominees for best picture?
Small Things Like These: Cillian Murphyâs performance is fiercely internalised in a film emblematic of a changing Ireland
Tim Mielantâs memorable film is quietly emblematic of a changing Ireland
Cillian Murphy: âYou had the Kerry babies, the moving statues, no abortion, no divorce. It was like the dark agesâ
The Oscar winner reunites with Eileen Walsh, his Disco Pigs co-star, for Small Things Like These. For young Irish abroad, was its Ireland worth returning to?
Small Things Like These: new trailer shows Cillian Murphy struggling with internal conflict in a darkened New Ross
The film adaptation of Claire Keeganâs novella comes to Irish cinemas this November
Claire Keegan in Dalkey: âI canât say Iâd cry if I was never nominated for the Booker againâ
Acclaimed Irish writer doles out beautifully worded nuggets of wisdom during a sold-out Saturday-night appearance at the festival
Girl in the Making by Anna Fitzgerald: readers will feel for this sensitive, intuitive child
Debut novel absorbs from the opening chapter, following the story of Dublin girl Jean
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy now a âfavouriteâ for the next James Bond, plus other things we learned from the 96th Academy Awards
Amid the kerfuffle, it was somewhat lost that the second-biggest winner of the evening was Poor Things â a remarkable feat for an Irish production
Cillian Murphy: âMoving home from London was the best thing we didâ
The Oscars 2024 front-runner values his familyâs ânormal, lovely lifeâ in Ireland â especially as the glare of awards season has been âsuch a baptism of fireâ
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