Sara Baume

‘Conversations with Friends review: Sally Rooney offers searing insights on affairs and relationships

Sara Baume’s adeptness as a writer shines through in her power to immerse the reader in her character’s senses, emotions and place on earth

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

Culture review 2016: Seanad National Museum land grab shows depths of philistinism in our political culture

John Banville, Kevin Barry, Sara Baume, Anne Enright, Louise O’Neill, Nuala O’Connor and Edna O’Brien on 147-strong longlist

Writers, poets, friends and fans reflect on Leonard Cohen’s words, music and work

Students at O’Connells CBS happy with Ordinary and Honours level English papers

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

Joe Duffy, Sara Baume, Jim McGuinness, Louise O’Neill, Donal Ryan, Sinéad Gleeson and Niall Breslin among winners at Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2015

£30,000 overall prize and £5,000 category prizes to be announced in January

Adrian McKinty signs on wavy line; Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer; Peter McDonald at TCD; Allingham Festival

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

Tramp Press co-publisher Sarah Davis-Goff surveys Ireland’s literary scene, argues that its small presses have the best ammunition and offers her own publishing philosophy

The Irish novel may be at a crossroads, says Bert Wright, but Irish fiction is as vibrant and multifarious now as fiction has ever been in any culture in literary history

Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books

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

Sara Baume and Colm Tóibín will also take part in this year’s literary event in Galway

Honours for Henrietta McKervey and Simon Lewis; Paula Meehan joins Hall of Fame

The winner of the 2014 Davy Byrnes Short Story Award gave herself two years to write her debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither. But she remains torn between fiction and visual art

Eighteen writers chosen from entries submitted in the last 12 months in three categories: First Fiction, Emerging Fiction and Emerging Poetry

Review: After a summer of blockbusters, this compact collection is a reminder that there is often more satisfaction in a selection of starters than in a traditional three-course meal

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