Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride win Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize
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Neil Tully’s The Visit: ‘I wrote the sort of novel I like to read – a small town, a sense of trouble lurking’
The first-time novelist talks inspiration, the influence of JFK on Ireland, and troubled outcasts
Seán Hewitt on Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist
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Anna Burns: ‘When I got damaged in surgery, nothing else mattered. I’ve always lived in survival mode’
The Booker Prize-winning author on writing through the pain, growing up in Belfast’s Murder Triangle and getting sober after leaving the ‘boozy’ city for London
Sarah Crossan: ‘Meeting amazing teenagers was a highlight of being Laureate na nÓg’
Author’s new novel Gone for Good is one of three verse thrillers and is based in the Adirondack mountains
Cúirt festival line-up revealed
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€11,000 Moth Poetry Prize 2026 shortlist revealed
Read the shortlisted poems: After Athenry by Ronald Carson; The Fall, 1989 by Elena Croitoru-Reed; Delinquent by Juleus Ghunta; and Shazaya by Adam Oliver
Author Henrietta McKervey: ‘I do like a good murder’
Author’s new novel, The Woman in the Water, is inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
Gethan Dick wins Kate O’Brien Award
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Two Irish authors on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist
Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine nominated for award worth £30,000
Here’s what you’ll be reading in 2026, according to Irish booksellers
With new titles due from the likes of Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Colm Tóibín and Donal Ryan, booksellers expect 2026 to be a ‘bumper year’
Author Cathy Kelly: ‘I doubt there’s a writer alive who hasn’t used personal battles in their work’
If you’re absolutely full of fear and anxiety, sit down and find a pen/laptop, says seasoned novelist
Big book deals for three Irish writers
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International Booker Prize 2026: The longlist in full
Longlist features two books first published in their original languages more than 30 years ago
Charleen Hurtubise: ‘People fall into relationship patterns that feel familiar rather than good’
The US-born author on how Ireland has shaped her language around parenthood, the antidote to ‘the cruelty and chaos of Ice’ and her opposition to ‘the obscene accumulation of wealth’