Richard Osman: ‘Having a hit in Ireland is one of my great joys’
Fifth novel in the best-selling Thursday Murder Club series explores wealth and greed – but in a fun way, the author says
Sally Rooney
Roddy Doyle: ‘I got a phone call from one of the New Yorker’s famous fact-checkers’
Authors Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Colin Barrett and Belinda McKeon reflect on the Irish relationship with the magazine ahead of an Abbey Theatre celebration
‘It’s a phenomenon - we’re very privileged’: Contemporary Irish women writers celebrated at symposium in Mexico
Irish studies programme in Mexico has introduced students to writers such as Sally Rooney and Claire Keegan
Sally Rooney says she cannot safely enter UK without facing arrest over Palestine Action support
Irish author wins Sky Arts Award for literature for her latest novel Intermezzo
Why are Irish artists such as Graham Linehan, Sally Rooney so prominent in UK free speech wars?
Sally Rooney, Graham Linehan, Kneecap and John Boyne have all been caught up in controversy
British commentators telling off Irish artists such as Sally Rooney or Kneecap is galling
It would be a bit much to suggest there is a coordinated anti-Irish conspiracy at play, especially when many British people also support these artists’ stance
A new generation of Irish artists is teaching us that we are global citizens
Poems, plays, films, visual and performing arts have all been travelling a lot recently, expanding the horizons of Irish culture
A week with Kneecap: ‘Liam Óg doesn’t like much attention. This is quite a lot of heat for him’
Mo Chara has been back in court over a terror-related charge that Kneecap dismiss as political policing. It’s a pivotal week in the run-up to Electric Picnic
Is the UK absurd enough to arrest Sally Rooney at Heathrow?
Something has gone badly wrong when, according to UK law, the author is deemed a ‘supporter of terror’
Yellowface author RF Kuang: ‘I’m actually not happy with any of my earlier novels’
The author’s latest novel, Katabasis, began as ‘a kind of silly satire – a romp through hell as a commentary on academia’
Downing Street warns against funding Palestine Action after Sally Rooney cash pledge
Author suggested she would use royalties from books and BBC adaptations to fund group banned in UK
Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper – but that would now be illegal
50 years of women’s writing: The 21st century – a boom time... or is it?
Irish women writers’ success would be a cause for celebration, were it not for those pesky figures
Mix Tape review: Unspools like a glorified cover version of Sally Rooney’s Normal People
Television: Set in Sheffield but filmed in Dublin, the story hangs on the implausible premise of a rekindled teenage crush
Oasis: You can’t write. You don’t care. No wonder you’ve gone a long way
Politics will age you faster than even the most rock’n’roll lifestyle
Approval for Mayo data centre plan is appealed
Planning consultant said data centre site was chosen ‘outside grid-constrained areas and in a region with a surplus of renewable power’
Film director Neil Jordan and the Éamon de Valera connection
“Did de Valera have a hand in Collins’s death?” he asks. “Probably not, but he could have prevented it".
Dragons denied: Niall O’Farrell becomes the latest TV entrepreneur to face money woes
Plus: former Mary Lavin home back on market; John Collison’s castle life; and Declan Ganley’s conservative Roman party
‘It’s a very hard time to be young’: author John Patrick McHugh on male adolescence
The Irish writer on his timely debut novel, Fun and Games; the tenderness and competitiveness of young male friendship; and his friendship with Sally Rooney
After the death of popular Pope Francis, what now for Christianity?
In Europe, after centuries of dominance, Christianity appears to be in retreat
Sally Rooney: ‘I enjoy writing about men ... the dangerous charisma of the oppressor class’
Fans are drawn like moths to the author’s flame during her two appearances Cúirt festival
Cúirt literature festival at 40: ‘There is a sense of an Irish writing culture exploding around the world’
When I was an impoverished student sustained by Pot Noodles, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature introduced me to literature I would not have encountered otherwise
Irish Times readers pick Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These as the best Irish book of the 21st century
How do your top 25 books compare to the rankings of 60 experts? Claire Keegan’s work is a firm favourite among both groups
The Routledge Companion to 21st-century Irish Writing: academics deliver hefty report from the coalface on the state of our culture
A mixed-bag on purpose, the volume spans prose, poetry and drama then looks at the new in an uncertain era of change
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 25 to No 1
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: how we made the list and what it says about the state of Irish fiction
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts to select the best Irish books of the years 2000-2025. Here’s how we did it
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 50 to No 26
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 100 to No 51
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts – authors, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers and journalists – to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of the years 2000-2025
AI chatbots open a new frontier in fears for our children’s wellbeing
Access to sexualised, manipulative anthropomorphised technology in the psychologically challenging teenage years represents an alarming new threat
Shaping the Century: 25 brilliant Irish women in 2025
This century has brought us many landmark moments, provided by remarkable Irish women who are an inspiration to others
Dublin author Fíona Scarlett: ‘A young woman told me to take out that I was a mother in my bio, because it demeaned me and my work’
The writer left behind a career in teaching to forge a path as a novelist. She has learned to trust her gut
An Irishman at Oxford: It was an education in being an outsider. I felt alienated from the very start
The good, the bad and the ugly parts of studying English through Irish eyes at Oxford
How to make an audiobook: the perfect voice, detailed prep and a raconteur’s instincts
Voice actor Aoife McMahon, producer Roy McMillan and audio engineer Noel Storey reveal some of their tricks
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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