Book Quiz: Philip Roth’s middle name and Synge’s island?10 bookish brain teasersSat Dec 02 2017 - 00:00
Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards winners revealedBernard MacLaverty, Marian Keyes and Atlas of the Irish Revolution get the big breaksWed Nov 29 2017 - 00:00
Patrick Kavanagh remembered: O shiny great soul of MonaghanLeading poets and writers take a fresh look at the writer on the 50th anniversary of his deathSat Nov 25 2017 - 06:00
Eoin McHugh to be HarperCollins’ publishing director in IrelandEavan Boland is to receive Bob Hughes Lifetimes Achievement Award at Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book AwardsThu Nov 23 2017 - 12:00
Three Irish writers on Costa Book Award shortlistsKarl Geary, Sarah Crossan and Sinéad Morrissey among nominationsTue Nov 21 2017 - 19:30
The Book Quiz: ‘Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man’Seamus Heaney’s biographer, Goldsmith Prize winner, and who wrote ‘The Birds’Sat Nov 18 2017 - 06:00
Nicola Barker wins Goldsmiths Prize with H(a)ppyPrize dominated by Irish writers goes to English author for first timeWed Nov 15 2017 - 20:00
Eithne Shortall signs six-figure US deal for second novelSunday Times chief arts writer’s debut also optioned for TV series by NBC Universal StudiosTue Nov 14 2017 - 12:15
Fintan O’Toole to write Seamus Heaney’s official biographyFaber announces ‘Irish Times’ columnist to write Nobel Prize-winning poet’s authorised lifeTue Nov 14 2017 - 08:00
Nom nom nom de plume: Irish writers on foodFood Month: Henrietta McKervey, Rob Doyle, Danielle McLaughlin, Ian Duhig, Paula McGrath, Jo Spain and Martina Evans share favourite recipes and storiesMon Nov 13 2017 - 12:30
Picador to publish Sinéad Gleeson’s debut essay collectionAnyone who has read her Granta essays, ‘Blue Hills and Chalk Bones’ and ‘Second Mother’, will be impatient to read moreSat Nov 11 2017 - 06:00
The Book Quiz: How many outings did Harry Hole have before ‘The Snowman’?Also: women in translation, a literary dog’s name, and where the Dickens is Diogenes?Sat Oct 28 2017 - 06:00
John Banville is knighted by ItalyLeading Irish author made Cavaliere of the Ordine della Stella d’Italia at Italian embassy ceremonyWed Oct 25 2017 - 13:42
The Book Quiz: The weight of history – how many kgs exactly?Also: a host of prizewinners and the only Irish-language No1 bestseller are among this week's gemsSat Oct 21 2017 - 16:07
Dracula gets his day in the sunPoets shortlisted for TS Eliot and Warwick Prizes; Dublin Book Festival highlights; Something WickedSat Oct 21 2017 - 06:00
Sarah Davis-Goff and Cecelia Ahern sign major book dealsTinder Press buys Tramp publisher’s post-apocalyptic Irish novel. TV rights already sold for Ahern’s 30 women’s storiesThu Oct 12 2017 - 11:26
Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize in LiteratureAuthor is best known for novel ‘The Remains of the Day’Thu Oct 05 2017 - 12:11
Galway writer signs six-figure dealEd O’Loughlin and Sara Baume shortlisted for major awards; BBC to adapt Tana French novels for Dublin Murders TV seriesWed Oct 04 2017 - 16:00
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty is October’s Irish Times Book Club pickEdgar Award-winning thriller is fifth in Sean Duffy series about a Catholic RUC manMon Oct 02 2017 - 16:03
Sinéad Morrissey wins £10,000 Forward poetry prizeArmagh poet wins Best Collection prize for ‘On Balance’. Ocean Vuong and Ian Patterson also honouredThu Sept 21 2017 - 21:30
What JP Donleavy did best was the desperate melancholy of men in their primeTributes: John Banville, Kevin Barry, Donal Ryan, Pat McCabe, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and others assess ‘The Ginger Man’ authorThu Sept 14 2017 - 16:35
Two female debut authors shortlisted for Man Booker prizeIrish authors Mike McCormack and Sebastian Barry fail to make cutWed Sept 13 2017 - 10:36
Niall MacMonagle honoured; Maeve Binchy festival; Belfast crime fiction eventIrish literary news: Culture Night; Sounds from a Safe Harbour; Dromineer Literary Festival; Patrick Kavanagh weekend; HomePlace events; Dublin Festival of HistoryFri Sept 08 2017 - 15:51
Inch Levels by Neil Hegarty is September’s Irish Times Book Club pickA powerful debut novel set in the landscapes of Ireland’s northern borderlandsFri Sept 01 2017 - 05:50
Irish Times Book Club podcast with Shane ConnaughtonThe Oscar-winning screenwriter and author discusses his career including Married Quarters, his long-awaited sequel to A Border StationThu Aug 31 2017 - 10:21
A Q&A with ‘Kill All Normies’ author Angela Nagle‘Literary people are much more open to complexity than political people. Political online commentary is just a cesspit for the unhappy’Tue Aug 22 2017 - 12:29
Louise O’Neill takes on The Little MermaidWild Words festival; John Toomey wins award; Irish Pages at Seamus Heaney HomePlaceThu Jul 27 2017 - 06:00
Man Booker prize 2017: Irish authors Sebastian Barry and Mike McCormack on longlistPair have already won awards for their listed novels, ‘Days Without End’ and ‘Solar Bones’Thu Jul 27 2017 - 00:01
Married Quarters by Shane Connaughton this summer’s Irish Times Book Club pickThe sequel to his acclaimed 1989 debut is set in a Garda station in Cavan in late 1950sTue Jul 18 2017 - 17:30
What are Anne Enright, John Boyne and others reading this Summer?Some of Ireland’s best-known writers and readers share the books that will be in their suitcasesWed Jul 05 2017 - 06:00
Holiday reading: Irish diplomats on what books to read whereFrom Bulgaria to Zambia and from China to Palestine, the books you should be readingMon Jul 03 2017 - 11:00
Book Club podcast: Jennifer Johnston talks to Eileen BattersbyIrish Times Book Club: The distinguished author discusses her life and workFri Jun 30 2017 - 10:52
Sebastian Barry wins Independent Bookshop Week Book AwardMaeve Binchy walk; TCD archives conference; Words Ireland initiativesFri Jun 23 2017 - 09:30
Irish Abroad: which books capture the spirit of where you liveShare your local knowledge with Irish visitors this summerWed Jun 21 2017 - 17:36
Children’s literature conference in DublinThe latest literary news and listingsFri Jun 16 2017 - 11:00
Bloomsday Festival: What’s happening on the big week for JoyceansTo mark WB Yeats’s birthday and Bloomsday the National Library will show newly acquired letters to Yeats from James JoyceSat Jun 10 2017 - 06:00
Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction: shortlist reviewsGrace Dent, Bettany Hughes, Stephen Mangan, Anthony Horowitz, Anita Rani and Danny Wallace on tomorrow’s potential winnersTue Jun 06 2017 - 10:50
Clucking good poem for kids wins Caterpillar Poetry Prize‘You can sense the twinkle in the author’s eye,’ says editor of Janet Turner’s winnerMon Jun 05 2017 - 08:00
Kit de Waal’s ‘My Name Is Leon’ is Irish Novel of the Year 2017Bookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listingsSat Jun 03 2017 - 06:00
Michael Longley is awarded PEN Pinter PrizeJudges praise poet’s ‘effortlessly lyric and fluent poetry… wholly suffused with humanity, humility and compassion’Thu Jun 01 2017 - 00:00
Read the Africa Day 2017 writing competition winnersThe African-themed short story and poetry competition is designed to showcase emerging talent and established writersSun May 21 2017 - 06:00
Yanis Varoufakis and Arundhati Roy at International Literature Festival DublinBookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listingsSat May 20 2017 - 06:00
Joseph O’Connor and Donal Ryan for Frank McCourt summer schoolBookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listingsSat May 13 2017 - 06:00
Red Dirt by EM Reapy is Book Club pick for MayDebut novel about three young Irish economic migrants in Australia won Newcomer of the Year at the 2016 Irish Book AwardsTue May 02 2017 - 12:52
Edna O’Brien wins French translation prizeInternational Literature Festival Dublin highlights; Pigott Poetry Prize shortlist; Irish Writers in London Summer School; Dublin ReviewWed Apr 12 2017 - 13:00
Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair launchesFrench translation prize; AE anniversary lecture; love songs in Limerick; Seamus Heaney tapestryWed Apr 05 2017 - 15:00
Michael Collins Irish Times Book Club podcastThe Man Booker shortlisted author discusses his career, his Rustbelt Trilogy and the rise of Donald Trump, and his month-long marathon-a-day Famine memorial runFri Mar 31 2017 - 13:20
Three Irish on £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize shortlistEimear McBride on Encore Award shortlist; Gutter Bookshop shortlisted; Cork World Book Festival; Karl Whitney working on a hit; Connemara cultural retreat; Trinity treasure huntFri Mar 31 2017 - 09:00
