Almost 400 Irish writers sign statement calling for immediate ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann statement calls for release of hostages and protection of the lives and human rights of all innocent people
Paul Lynch
Dublin Literary Award 2025 shortlist revealed: Irish Booker winner Paul Lynch makes the cut
Novels by Paul Lynch, Michael Crummey, Selva Almeda, Gerta Blees, Daniel Mason and Percival Everett have made the cut
A Brave New Ireland: How dystopias can reflect the state of Ireland and the West
It’s commonly believed that our future will become more digitalised, but it’s equally possible that nuclear war would allow a complete reset
Dublin Literary Award 2025: Seven Irish authors on longlist for €100,000 prize
Irish authors Paul Lynch, Colin Barrett, John Boyne, Sinéad Gleeson and Nuala O’Connor also among 71 nominees for €100,000 fiction prize
‘We are living through the sixth extinction’: How contemporary Irish writers are pointedly addressing the climate crisis
Poetry cannot change the world, Seamus Heaney once said. But he also went on to clarify that what poetry could do is to allow the world to be viewed afresh
What do Irish writers read? Donal Ryan, Mark Tighe, Nuala O’Connor, Claire Hennessy and more give recommendations
The Irish Writers Handbook 2025 contributors recommend books and bookshops for Irish Book Week
Sally Rooney’s novel Intermezzo is fastest-selling book in Republic this year
Normal People author’s title sold almost 12,000 copies in first five days on market
Booker Prize 2024 longlist: Irish author Colin Barrett makes 13-strong list
The judges called Mayo writer’s Wild Houses ‘a propulsive, darkly comic account of misadventure in a small Irish town’
‘I miss my solitude’: Booker winner Paul Lynch says he is a ‘social introvert’
Irish author says he wonders what kind of writer he will be when his ‘feet touch the ground’
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Irish author Paul Murray scoops top prize at inaugural Nero Book Awards
Dublin-born writer’s The Bee Sting hailed as ‘fiction of the finest calibre’ at London ceremony
Irish writers Anne Enright, Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan named on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist
Anne Enright, Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan in running for £30,000 fiction award
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Paul Howard’s alternative Ireland, a comedic version of Booker Prize winning novel Prophet Song
In Operation Trumpsformation, Howard writes about Ross O’Carroll-Kelly’s father Charles, a corrupt local politician who has his eyes on greater power
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