William Trevor

Late writer commended for ‘wonderful contribution to literature and Ireland’

Trevor was a world class writer who chronicled the lives of the forgotten, the despairing losers, the innocent and the devious, the lonely and the unloved

Obituary: Writer of ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ and novelist made Irish themes universal

Writer was born in Mitchelstown in Co Cork and educated at Trinity College Dublin

If the academy wanted to honour a music icon, Paul Simon would be a better choice

John Ford film gave Hone a valuable masterclass in storytelling

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the auction house . . . A first edition of Jaws and a drawing by its author are snapped up

How a retired book-collecting Sligo GP managed to get a copy of DH Lawrence’s banned book while still at school

Ahead of this year’s Dublin Book Festival, we ask some of the participating authors to tell us the stories behind the books in their personal collections

‘Our world is better for having had Brian Friel in it and now seems a lot smaller’

Aosdána honour given by President Higgins for singular, sustained distinction in arts

Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction

Eimear McBride, Jennifer Johnston and Kevin Barry are some of the names that have been suggested in response to the Arts Council’s call for nominees for its new three-year, €150,000 role. The judges will announce their decision in January

‘New Yorker’ writer Roger Angell is the game’s undisputed poet laureate

Barrett is just second Irish winner of the €25,000 prize, after Edna O’Brien

Hall immortalised by writer William Trevor now reinvented as tourist attraction

When Yiyun Li left China, at the age of 24, she couldn’t speak English. Now, nearly two decades later, she is recognised as one of its most perceptive contemporary writers

This masterful writer’s rural-Ireland background invariably emerges from her sophisticated portraits of female sensibility

Munro’s genius is in the short story, and that is what makes her winning the Nobel Prize for Literature so exciting

‘It is not easy to like,’ the candid author says of her latest novel, the Booker-shortlisted ‘The Lowland’

‘Heartbeat of Home’, a new dance show from the creators of ‘Riverdance’, with lyrics by Joseph O’Connor and music by Brian Byrne, is drawing a new musical map of Ireland

Reviewed by Eileen Battersby

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos spills the beans on the quartet’s stellar fourth album, his Irish literary inspiration and why his band will never be the showbiz types

Jim Crace’s ‘Harvest’ hard to beat despite interesting list