Paul Murray

Irish Book Awards 2023 shortlist: Paul Murray, Liz Nugent, Liam Brady and PJ Gallagher nominated

Winners of the 18th year of the An Post book awards will be announced at a ceremony in November

Anne Enright, Sally Rooney, Paul Murray among authors calling for end to destruction in Palestine

Former hostage John McCarthy and many leading Irish writers, actors and musicians among signatories of London Review of Books open letter

AI and Irish writers: ‘I fear my life, in a strange way, is also being appropriated’

Irish authors whose works are in a data set used to train AI share their views

The Booker Prize boost: ‘It certainly changed the way people look at me’

Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright and Irish booksellers on the real difference the prestigious award makes as two Irish writers hit shortlist

Booker Prize 2023: Irish authors Paul Murray and Paul Lynch make shortlist

Sarah Bernstein, Jonathan Escoffery, Paul Harding  and Chetna Maroo also in for £50,000 award

‘Miracle’ of Irish literature celebrated as four Booker prize nominees gather in Dublin

Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray give selection of readings in city centre

Booker Prize 2023: Four Irish writers make this year’s longlist

Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray join nine other authors in the running for the literary award

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray: Hugely entertaining tragicomic fiction about painful family dynamics

An ambitious, expansive novel where the darkness is never too far away

Paul Murray: ‘Terrible things happen in Ireland, and we are so good as a people at masking ourselves’

Author talks the dark world of his latest novel, spending time in Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse and why he always feels he has to dig himself out of a hole

John Boyne: I was abused at Terenure College, but not by John McClean

I’ve failed in every romantic relationship and now engage only in meaningless encounters

John Boyne sets up short-story competition for kids cooped up at home

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

Literature groups to issue call for greater support

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

At last canonical status is being conferred on author Lafcadio Hearn

These shocking and enthralling Japanese ghost stories have too long been underappreciated in the West

Metal Heart: Hugh O’Conor’s charming comedy set in middle-class suburban Dublin

Review: The film, directed by the former child actor, is stuffed with good dialogue

Hugh O’Conor: ‘I had to go to Irish college rather than be in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’

The ‘My Left Foot’ child actor does not only act - he’s now a writer and film-maker too

Bones of convention – Frank McNally on a dying Japanese custom

Ritual of Senkotsu requires the family to reassemble, disinter the body, and wash the bones

Feast Days by Ian MacKenzie review: A truly convincing female voice

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

The best films from the 30th Galway Film Fleadh

The 2018 Fleadh was defined by some first-class documentaries. Evidence that we can’t escape our violent past came with Keepers of the Flame, Unquiet Graves and I, Dolours

Pro-choice campaigners in Sligo confident about referendum

‘Out of hundreds of houses, I reckon we came across six negatives’

Frank Murray ‘the consumate professional’, funeral hears

Public servant was completely committed to locating remains of Disappeared, Mass told

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