Dog Days by Emily La Barge: Confronting the trauma of an attack
An author in search of nothing short of a new form of writing
By John Vaughan
The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: A book deserving of wide readership
Irish fiction debuts to look forward this year from Neil Tully, Ana Kinsella to Colin Morgan
The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali: bureaucratic madness and the absurdity of life
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The Outsiders Who Built Irish Entertainment: Wendy Elliman details the evolution of a national empire
Author Iain Dale: ‘We don’t learn about Ireland in English schools, which is really weird’
The best fiction of 2026 to look forward to: Books from Louise Kennedy, Donal Ryan, Sebastian Barry and more
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New poetry: Alia Kobuszko; John F Deane; Ruth Carr; and Tom Paulin’s razor-sharp return
By Mícheál McCann
Alexandre Kojève, An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys: alternative world visions
By Eugene Brennan
Nonfiction books coming in 2026: From a new memoir by Louise O’Neill to Roy Keane’s impact on modern Ireland
By Martin Doyle
Rewiring Democracy: ‘Citizen acceptance and trust in AI matters as much as AI capabilities’
By Sinéad Gibney
The Irish Revolution: How the diaspora helped make independence an international affair
By Daniel Mulhall
The Slicks: A hopefully intentionally unserious book on Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath
By Maija Makela
‘Some nights I do not sleep’: Families remember 16 sectarian killings in 24 hours in North
By Martin Doyle
A Companion to Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland: Collection of hard but necessary truths
By Ross Neill
Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World by Dani Rodrik: Health plan for a fractured world
By Vic Duggan
The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850–1922: Business as Usual by Antonia Hart
By Neasa MacErlean
The Garden and the Jungle by Edwy Plenel: A persuasive case against western panic over immigration
By Oliver Farry
