Irish writers explore where and why they set their works abroadAnne Enright, Colm Tóibín and a host of Irish writers explore why when it comes to writing fiction the world is their oysterFri Nov 25 2016 - 06:00
Amazon reveals Greystones is Ireland’s self-publishing capitalMeath, Wicklow and Kildare have most independently published authors per personWed Nov 23 2016 - 16:39
Sebastian Barry and Maggie O’Farrell shortlisted for Costa book awardBrian Conaghan on children’s book shortlist. Winners to be announced in JanuaryTue Nov 22 2016 - 19:30
William Trevor: Irish writers pay tributeJohn Banville, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, Joseph O’Connor, Kevin Barry, Roddy Doyle and more salute the late authorMon Nov 21 2016 - 17:21
Philippe Sands finds his family amid crimes against humanityBookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listingsSat Nov 19 2016 - 06:00
Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards winning authors revealedMike McCormack’s Solar Bones is novel of the year. Winners include Marian Keyes, Graham Norton, Paul Howard, Paul O’Connell and Tana FrenchWed Nov 16 2016 - 23:17
Fame awaits for Karen Perry’s Girl UnknownBookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listingsThu Nov 10 2016 - 16:00
Mike McCormack says Goldsmiths Prize win is ‘payback’ for his publisher TrampPrestigious experimental fiction prize won by Irish author for third time in four yearsThu Nov 10 2016 - 11:30
Martin John by Anakana Schofield is November’s Irish Times Book Club pickThe story of a sex offender exiled from Ireland to London, by the award-winning author of Malarky, is on Goldsmiths Prize shortlistTue Nov 01 2016 - 13:00
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack: the Irish Times Book Club podcastPublishing struggles, creative writing classes, the magic of Mayo, artistic influences, mortality and wonderful women are on the agenda this monthMon Oct 31 2016 - 10:00
Halloween treats: writers reveal their favourite scary storiesThirty literary types, including Lisa McInerney, Colin Barrett, Sinéad Crowley, Donal Ryan and John Boyne, on why certain stories send shivers down their spinesMon Oct 31 2016 - 06:00
Shortlists revealed for Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2016Mike McCormack, Eimear McBride, Emma Donoghue, Donal Ryan, Maggie O’Farrell and Sebastian Barry vie for Eason Novel of YearTue Oct 25 2016 - 10:58
Do writers make bad parents? Few agree with John BanvilleHis comment in an Irish Times interview that writers are bad fathers provoked a social media storm. Fellow writers reactMon Oct 24 2016 - 17:31
Ian Duhig and Bernard O’Donoghue on TS Eliot Prize shortlistBookmarks: Lingo Spoken Word Festival; Dara Ó Briain’s science for kids; independent publishing workshop; top titles from French and NevilleFri Oct 21 2016 - 10:30
Publisher Liberties Press admits owing money to authorsPublisher Seán O’Keeffe says he is sorry and vows to address the situation on paymentsSat Oct 15 2016 - 01:00
Paul McVeigh’s Polari prize win a triumph over very strong shortlistBookmarks: an Armagh arts event, a Shackleton festival and murder comes to MalahideThu Oct 13 2016 - 06:00
Graeme Macrae Burnet Q&A: ‘Like most writers I’m a dreadful procrastinator’‘I think the success of His Bloody Project shows that readers are willing to engage with something a little bit out of the ordinary,’ says Man Booker Prize shortlisted authorFri Oct 07 2016 - 10:54
Publisher takes Liberties by charging writers €100 per manuscriptBookmarks: Red Line Book Festival; Carousel Aware Prize; Irish Writers Centre hits the road; 50 years of free educationThu Oct 06 2016 - 17:00
Irish comedians' favourite funny novelsLooking for an amusing read? Ask comic geniuses Kevin McAleer, Tara Flynn, Maeve Higgins, Arthur Mathews, Kevin and Anne Gildea, Owen O’Neill and Ian McPhersonThu Oct 06 2016 - 12:39
How Bloom and Gerty’s activities in Ulysses shocked the US censorAccount relates lesbian couple’s legal battle for the publication of Joyce’s masterpieceSat Oct 01 2016 - 05:00
Three Irish authors on £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize shortlistBookmarks: Books are my Bag; An Evening for Book Lovers; Echoland is Dublin: One City One Book choice; IMRAM Irish language literature festivalWed Sept 28 2016 - 21:00
Arts for arts sake? Writers on the value of an arts degreeIs an arts degree still worth doing? A host of writers explain what they got out of itWed Sept 28 2016 - 10:53
Poem: There We Were, by Enda WyleyWe could have stayed forever there but then the bells rang . . . and we were savedSat Sept 24 2016 - 04:00
First-edition Beckett bio with Lucia Joyce autograph on saleBookmarks: Speaking on the Rising, Anne Enright in Limerick, and Mercier novel competitionFri Sept 23 2016 - 09:00
Ryan Tubridy and PJ Lynch offer sneak preview of their JFK bookChildren’s Books Ireland conference: Patrick and the President draws on Tubridy’s fascination with John F Kennedy’s Irish ties, the subject of his first book, JFK In IrelandWed Sept 21 2016 - 06:54
Ebooks: these books were made for walking‘Flâneuse: Women Walk the City’; ‘An Abbreviated Life’; ‘The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir’Sat Sept 17 2016 - 05:00
Claire-Louise Bennett shortlisted for BBC National Short Story AwardHilary Mantel, Lavinia Greenlaw, K J Orr shortlisted for second time along with Tahmima Anam for £15,000 prizeFri Sept 16 2016 - 19:45
Sally Rooney and Liz Nugent sign big book dealsBookmarks: major Irish debut; US deal for ex-Fair City writer; Stalin the bookworm; Dromineer literary festival; women writers for Icon Walk; Haughey novel for TVThu Sept 15 2016 - 11:00
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney to be made into TV seriesGalway author’s debut won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and Desmond Elliott Prize earlier this year. Sequel is to be published next AprilThu Sept 08 2016 - 11:23
Writers unite to stop Heaney’s birthplace being paved overBookmarks: The poet himself protested the Derry moterway route nine years agoThu Sept 08 2016 - 06:00
Australian Nikki McWatters wins €3,000 Moth Short Story Prize‘The language and descriptive powers of the author suggest a great talent,’ says judge John BoyneWed Sept 07 2016 - 12:53
Poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa awarded €10,000 Rooney Prize for Irish LiteratureA video featuring former award winners including many of Ireland’s leading writers has been made to celebrate 40 years of the Rooney PrizeMon Sept 05 2016 - 18:00
Tributes to Jeremy Addis and The Level Crossing launchesBookmarks: Books Ireland publisher dies; Dedalus Press produces a new poetry journalFri Sept 02 2016 - 16:00
Multitudes by Lucy Caldwell: September’s Irish Times Book Club choiceThe award-winning author’s bittersweet debut short story collection traces the highs and lows of young women’s lives in her native BelfastFri Sept 02 2016 - 13:28
Are you a literary lightweight or big hitter? Quiz answers and winner revealedScroll down for the answers. Congratulations to Mary McCauley, who has won 24 titles from the Macmillan Collector’s LibraryMon Aug 29 2016 - 13:00
Michael Grothaus Q&A: ‘Don’t worry about the first draft. It’s always going to be shit’The author of Epiphany Jones, a novel about Hollywood sex trafficking, on his life as a reader and writer and the many books that inspired himMon Aug 29 2016 - 12:39
Dublin Ghost Story Festival launches and Ulysses Centre gets green lightBookmarks: A ghostly revival and birth of a literary landmarkFri Aug 19 2016 - 13:39
Dorothy Molloy remembered in BallinaTwo events on August 4th will celebrate the work of the late Mayo scholar and teacher, painter and poetSat Jul 30 2016 - 01:00
Robert Dunbar: the Father (Christmas) of Irish children’s literatureOliver Jeffers, Derek Landy, Eoin Colfer, Marita Conlon-McKenna, Kate Thompson, Patrick Ness and many more pay tribute to champion of Irish children’s literatureFri Jul 22 2016 - 09:13
Tributes paid to Robert Dunbar, champion of children’s literaturePJ Lynch, Eoin Colfer, Patrick Ness and others honour critic and lecturer, who reviewed children’s literature for The Irish Times for more than 27 yearsThu Jul 21 2016 - 17:46
‘I write anywhere and everywhere except where and when I’m supposed to’RB Kelly on her literary life and loves: Mark Anthony, Anne of Green Gables, Terry Pratchett, Ben Elton, observing everything, and the right kind of feedbackMon Jul 18 2016 - 12:32
Irish Times Africa Day competition winnersStephanie Iwuala and Wasekera Chiphazi-Banda receive book prizesFri Jul 01 2016 - 17:42
‘UK was groomed’: Irish writers throw book at BrexitArchive: A cross-section of Irish poets and authors add their voices to alarm over Britain’s vote to leave the EUMon Jun 27 2016 - 12:00
Terry Pratchett: seriously funny and endlessly quotableLisa McInerney and Colin Smythe pick their favourites to add to the best of a new bookSun Jun 26 2016 - 08:00
Lisa McInerney wins second major prizeBookmarks: US publishing deal for Caitriona Lally; awards for Sarah Crossan and Thomas Morris; Dalkey literary walk; star in an Eoin Colfer musical; Hay Kells eventThu Jun 23 2016 - 15:02
Lisa McInerney wins £10,000 Desmond Elliott PrizeAuthor hailed as ‘major literary figure’ as debut novel The Glorious Heresies wins major award a fortnight after it won £30,000 Baileys Prize for Women’s FictionWed Jun 22 2016 - 19:15
First collection by 67-year-old Ron Carey shortlisted for Forward prizeBookmarks: Irish poet’s debut; ‘Mrs Engels’ in the frame; literary magazines for pre-teens; a Business to Arts opportunity; and adult colouring booksSat Jun 18 2016 - 07:25
A Baileys & Tanora cocktail for Lisa McInerneyBookmarks: Akhil Sharma’s Irish love; Irish author wins Canadian thriller prize; NLI programme; Kathleen Watkins' debut; Hennessy in Borris; Bloomsday biblesThu Jun 09 2016 - 16:25
Akhil Sharma on his debt to Hemingway and Robinson CrusoeA Q&A with 2016 International Dublin Literary Award winner: Reading taught me you will regret being cruel, not being kindThu Jun 09 2016 - 11:50
Rags to riches: Cinderella poem wins €1,000 Caterpillar poetry prizeRead the winning poem, Dear Ugly Sisters, by Laura Mucha. Last year’s winner Louise Greig secured a publishing deal after her poem was read on irishtimes.comMon Jun 06 2016 - 09:00
