Irish Times Books 2019: our most-read articlesA student’s moving essay on her body pipped Irish writers’ views on Brexit for first placeTue Dec 31 2019 - 05:48
Riveting reissue aged like a good wineBrief reviews of Don’t Look at Me Like That, The Manager’s Tale, Above Average at Games, Stories of the Sahara, Through Her Eyes and Shame on MeSat Dec 28 2019 - 00:00
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Dec 19 2019 - 14:13
Witty, clever observations of modern lifeBook reviews: Three Little Truths by Eithne Shortall; Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard; Farewell Happy Fieldsby Norah Hoult and moreSat Dec 14 2019 - 00:00
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite is Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages and round-up of Irish book news and eventsThu Dec 12 2019 - 11:10
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite is Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages and round-up of Irish book news and eventsThu Dec 05 2019 - 12:53
Christmas gifts for readers: The Irish Times guide to best books of 2019Irish writers and critics on their favourite fiction and nonfiction of the past 12 monthsSat Nov 30 2019 - 06:00
Caitriona Lally awarded $100,000 Lannan Literary Fellowship for FictionA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Nov 28 2019 - 12:40
Edna O’Brien wins the ‘UK and Ireland Nobel award’ for lifetime achievementCountry Girls author receives £40,000 David Cohen prize which is seen as Nobel precursorTue Nov 26 2019 - 20:15
Costa book awards: Joseph O’Connor shortlisted for ShadowplayAuthor last week won Irish Novel Award for his biographical fiction about Bram StokerTue Nov 26 2019 - 19:30
Christopher Eccleston offers a haunting meditation on fatherhoodBrief reviews of I Love the Bones of You, The Sea Cloak and Other Stories and Resist! How to be an Activist in the Age of DefianceSat Nov 23 2019 - 00:00
Redemption by David Baldacci is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason book offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Nov 21 2019 - 11:29
An Post Irish Book Awards 2019 winners revealedJoseph O’Connor, Sinéad Gleeson, Joe Duffy and Freya McClements among winnersWed Nov 20 2019 - 22:17
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz is this week’s Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Nov 14 2019 - 12:47
Nobel and Booker Prize winners on 2020 International Dublin Literary Award longlistAnna Burns, Sally Rooney, David Park, Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke vie for €100,000 prizeMon Nov 11 2019 - 11:15
The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Nov 07 2019 - 14:45
Rick O’Shea takes over RTÉ’s The Book ShowA sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages and details of our Eason book offerThu Oct 31 2019 - 17:24
Irish Book Awards 2019 shortlists revealedKevin Barry and Edna O’Brien up for Novel of the Year and Aisling authors shortlisted againThu Oct 24 2019 - 20:00
Dracul by Dacre Stoker with JD Barker is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Oct 24 2019 - 16:01
Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan signs six-figure deal for first adult novelA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Oct 17 2019 - 13:52
Cruel Acts by Jane Casey is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Oct 10 2019 - 17:35
‘Ciaran Carson drew Belfast better than anyone I ever read’Sinéad Morrissey, John Banville and fellow writers salute a great man and a great poetMon Oct 07 2019 - 17:20
Tana French’s The Wych Elm is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesFri Oct 04 2019 - 17:14
Tana French’s The Wych Elm is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Sept 26 2019 - 12:26
Author Mark O’Connell awarded €10,000 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2019To Be A Machine author won Wellcome Prize last year for exploration of transhumanismMon Sept 23 2019 - 18:30
The Wall by John Lanchester is this week’s Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Sept 19 2019 - 11:11
Danielle McLaughlin wins £30,000 Sunday Times Audible Short Story AwardWin caps rich year for Cork author after $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize in MarchThu Sept 12 2019 - 20:30
The Wall by John Lanchester is this week’s Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Sept 12 2019 - 15:20
Faber to mark anniversary of Lyra McKee’s murder with an anthology of her workLyra McKee: Lost, Found, Remembered will be published next AprilWed Sept 11 2019 - 09:00
‘I grew up in a weird Irish bubble. There is a lot about loss in my books’Martin Doyle interviews award-winning Birmingham Irish novelist Catherine O’FlynnWed Sept 11 2019 - 05:42
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz is new Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesFri Sept 06 2019 - 14:36
President announces Frank Ormsby as new Ireland Professor of PoetryEnniskillen poet was long-time editor of Honest Ulsterman and anthologist of Northern poetryFri Sept 06 2019 - 13:00
Heavyweights Atwood, Rushdie and 1,000-page epic in running for Booker PrizeWinner of £50,000 prize won last year by Anna Burns to be revealed next monthTue Sept 03 2019 - 16:40
Uncovering the mysteries and thrills of Ireland’s Hidden HeartlandsA trip down the world’s tallest inflatable water slide is a heart-racing introductionSat Aug 31 2019 - 06:00
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz is new Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Aug 29 2019 - 11:59
The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Aug 15 2019 - 17:52
Darkest Truth by Catherine Kirwan is this weekend’s Eason Irish Times offerA sneak preview of this Saturday’s book pagesThu Aug 08 2019 - 15:47
Darkest Truth by Catherine Kirwan is this weekend’s Eason Irish Times offerA sneak preview of this Saturday’s book pagesThu Aug 01 2019 - 08:00
Kevin Barry longlisted for 2019 Booker PrizeFormer winners Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie longlisted for prize won last year by Anna BurnsWed Jul 24 2019 - 00:01
Crime writers mystified by Colm Tóibín’s criticismLiterary author’s dismissal of genre fiction provokes backlashMon Jul 22 2019 - 16:50
The Conspiracy that Shook an Empire: The Phoenix Park assassinationsBrowser review: Julie Dobrow, After Emily; How We Disappeared; Listening to AnimalsSat Jul 20 2019 - 00:00
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason book offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s book pagesThu Jul 11 2019 - 14:35
The support act’s T-shirt shrank so Fatboy Slim made me a mixtapeHow culture bridges borders, from the Troubles to Brexit, from the Housemartins in 1986 to Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott in 2019Tue Jul 09 2019 - 05:55
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason book offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s book pagesThu Jul 04 2019 - 15:52
The plot thickens: A list of less than accurate summaries of famous novelsWe wrongly described Milkman by Anna Burns as being “about a young woman’s affair with a married man in Troubles-era Belfast”. Here are some more gross acts of descriptionMon Jul 01 2019 - 14:43
‘If you are going to find grace anywhere, it is going to be in art’Emily Ruskovich, International Dublin Literary Award winner, on her Idaho novel, redemption, forgiveness and her deep belief in the idea of a soulSat Jun 22 2019 - 07:00
Irish poets Seán Hewitt and James Conor Patterson win Eric Gregory AwardsNorma MacMaster (81) is Paul Torday Memorial Prize runner-upMon Jun 17 2019 - 20:30
‘I sometimes feel like I’m the only spy writer who never worked for the Secret Service’Mick Herron has been dubbed the le Carré of his generation for his Slough House seriesSat Jun 15 2019 - 06:05
The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton is this week’s Irish Times Eason offerA sneak preview of Saturday’s books pagesThu Jun 13 2019 - 12:09
Debut US author Emily Ruskovich (33) wins €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award‘The recognition is life-changing. The money will give me time. As a writer, that’s so precious’Wed Jun 12 2019 - 19:01