Donal Ryan

Author on being enamoured by Paris, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, and Limerick’s Italian restaurants

First Irish writer to win prestigious £50,000 award since Anne Enright in 2007

Virgin Media’s ‘Blood’ receives highest sum in BAI’s €6m Sound & Vision round

Delicious, daring and downright useful ideas for making the best of our summer days

The astute, captivating story of expat life of an American woman in Brazil

Dual diagnosis is an illness which a person experiences when they have both an addiction problem and a mental health issue

Lisa Coen and Sarah Davis-Goff, who set up Tramp Press four years ago, have published a string of successful titles

‘On Christmas Eve there was always a sherry reception for the customers’

In conversation: Sally Foran and David Kitt

Young Irish fiction writers have made strides in recent years, and 2018 promises some fine debuts. Here six authors introduce their books

In Conversation: Pat Shortt and Mark O’Halloran

A Belfast writer’s striking debut collection of stories shows much potential

Accused followed student nurse (22) uninvited into her home and into her bedroom

A consultant oncologist's debut gives a detailed picture of medical life in interlinked stories

Ross McGarry grabs a goal in either half to help set up meeting with Derry

Also in the news were diesel cars, Seán Dunne, Irish banks and artists’ tax relief

Higher level English paper one: Candidates who read widely ‘richly rewarded’

From St Stephen’s Green to Custom House Quay, there’s something for everyone in Dublin and around the country

A powerful debut about a doomed romance recalls the novels of Donal Ryan

Jim Lockhart hosts a grim chart countdown of the great musicians who died in 2016

The bestselling author admits he is scared of dialogue, that he talks to himself like a nutcase when in character and that every novel is a failure as all art is an attempt

Helen Sedgwick’s engaging debut, set in rural Ireland, maps out a constellation of lives over centuries

Writer-in-residence programme due to start in January

The awards preserve a system in which Irish work has to be passed on to a UK press

Dublin Shakespeare Society; Kevin Curran reading; All-Ireland Poetry Day; Trinity talk on Derry authors; hunger strike talk at UCD

1916/2016: a miscellany

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

A new short story collection, ‘A Slanting of the Sun’, brings us back to the setting of his novels

Caitriona Lally on Sara Baume’s Ray, Donal Ryan’s Johnsey and Daniel Seery’s Tom, whose outsider perspectives enable them to comment on mainstream Irish society

The professions of writer and lawyer share lots of similarities so it is perhaps no surprise that so many Irish lawyers venture into fiction. Sarah Gilmartin hears the evidence

A stirring debut collection on the loneliness of being alive

A revamped list of texts has been brought in at secondary level. But is it too modern?

A great product is just half the battle. How you beat unknown unknowns is the secret

25 poets in special Irish issue of ‘Poetry’ are worthy of international exposure, says Patrick Cotter

A round-up of upcoming events in the books world

There are myriad outlets, but how does a novice author get signed after the final draft?

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

Books nominated by public libraries for consideration include 142 novels

Author Danielle McLaughlin talks about what she loves and hates about the festive season

To mark Library Ireland Week ‘The Irish Times’ surveyed the country’s libraries