Cecelia Ahern joins judging panel and helps fund prizes for contest for six- to 18-year-olds

‘Milkman’ author has been praised for her ‘dazzingly inventive’ writing approach

Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland

Self-confessed shelf addict John Boyne checks out how fellow authors like to stack

The Drop Everything cultural biennial will soon take over Inisheer with art, music, and a specially built sauna

If this standard is kept up, writes Kevin Gildea, then Winter Pages will become as essential as a warm fire on the wet miserable nights of our Irish winter lives

Doughnuts and cigarettes or blindfold, earmuffs and earplugs? Writers can have odd ways of getting ready for their working day – or night. Gavin Corbett, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Henrietta McKervey, Thomas Morris and Paul Murray take us into their creative worlds

With the Leaving Cert results out this week, here’s a literary taster of what to expect at third level

This week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut author

With the Dublin Writers Festival kicking off this week, here are 10 great books with writers as their subject

Declan Meade has made it his business to find our finest writers, and his 15 years at The Stinging Fly make for formidable reading

The Irish programme generally eschews the traditional emphasis on literature in favour of showcasing contemporary art