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A young Dublin feminist who prefers poison to piano
Review: The Coroner’s Daughter is a gory, frenetic but tongue-in-cheek murder tale set in 1816 Dublin
Conor Brady: back on the crime beat
The ‘Irish Times’ editor turned novelist has used skills he picked up as a cub reporter to enrich his trilogy of Joe Swallow historical crime thrillers
Kathy Sheridan: The appalling decline in the quality of public insults
We all have the right to offend but not a licence to be coarse and vulgar
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: A compelling voice in anyone’s language
The latest Hennessy hall-of-famer is mesmeric and convincing when writing in English and turns her simpler Irish to great use in her crime writing
Duck restaurant review: A whip-smart spot to try in Co Wexford
The long-standing Duck restaurant in Gorey has a confidence about its food and service
John Banville to receive crime writing award in Waterford
Waterford boasts strong connections to crime novelist Raymond Chandler
Quirke back doing the right thing in ‘mean and mendacious’ city
Declan Burke reviews the best new crime fiction including a new Benjamin Black book
Jane Lythell: ‘Flawed people are interesting. It doesn’t matter if your readers dislike them’
Brought to Book Q&A: Former Bafta CEO on her favourite authors and writing her own novels
Tone control: ‘Give yourself permission to fail’
John Banville, Rachel Kushner and Peter Murphy share their wisdom on tone, voice and point of view
SF prepares for government where compromises await
Analysis: party will gain seats in next election, although perhaps fewer than polls suggest
A note-perfect homage to ‘American Psycho’, and other murders
A round-up of the best new crime thrillers
Literary Twitterati: Selina Guinness turned inside out
Our weekly round-up of recent literary happenings on Twitter
John Banville: channelling Chandler
With Quirke, he pounded the pavements of 1950s Dublin. Now the novelist takes on the great LA gumshoe Philip Marlowe
Television: There’s not much tension in watching this detective
A problematic lead in Gabriel Byrne, a predictable plot, clunky dialogue and staying too close to John Banville’s Benjamin Black book dampen drama in ‘Quirke: Christine Falls’
Killer instinct: a golden age of Irish crime fiction
Irish crime writing is booming. Ahead of a weekend festival, some of the writers who have their fingerprints all over this crime wave discuss the reasons behind it
RTÉ unveils new shows for ‘long winter ahead’
‘Quirke’ and ‘Amber’ join drama line-up, new comedies set for RTÉ Two
Review: Frères Jacques
The restaurant may be cartoonishly French but there’s nothing funny about its prices
John Banville: the movies and me
It took John Banville three years to write a book, and three days to turn it into his first film script. Money for jam, or beginner’s luck?
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