The Irish Times

In Love – A Memoir of Love and Loss: An important and timely read

Amy Bloom’s frank account of a marriage opens the way for a discussion about the right to die

Sat Apr 16 2022 - 06:00

One for the archives – An Irishwoman’s Diary on literary records

Sun Dec 27 2020 - 17:01

Love Notes from a German Building Site: A captivating debut

Adrian Duncan’s quietly reflective novel brings to life an engineer’s work in Berlin

Sat Apr 13 2019 - 06:00

The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Apr 11 2019 - 15:00

Dublin Literary Award: Two Irish authors shortlisted for world’s most valuable books prize

Sally Rooney and Bernard MacLaverty shortlisted for the €100,000 prize

Thu Apr 04 2019 - 00:01

Ode to a Grecian sojourn – the enduring mystique of islands

An Irishman’s Diary: Getting a taste for Robinsonade, a 300-year-old literary genre

Thu Feb 21 2019 - 19:00

St Brigid’s Day: Irish women to be celebrated around the world

Events celebrating female talent to take place from London to Warsaw to Washington

Thu Jan 31 2019 - 16:30

Literary greats gather in Galway city for literature festival

Laureate for Irish Fiction Sebastian Barry and author Paul Lynch among participants

Mon Apr 23 2018 - 13:30

Leaving Cert Irish: ‘Possibly one of the easier papers in recent years’

Students would have had ‘no cause for complaint’ with ‘accessible’ Paper 2

Tue Jun 13 2017 - 16:24

Brian Wilson and two major operas for Galway Arts Festival

Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up

Tue May 02 2017 - 10:12

Ríona Judge McCormack wins Hennessy New Irish Writer award

Chris Connolly wins Emerging Fiction prize, Jane Clarke wins Emerging Poetry award and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne inducted into Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame

Sat Apr 30 2016 - 01:00

Shakespeare and me: Irish writers on the Bard's best bits

Some admirers celebrate the playwright’s work on the 400th anniversary of his death

Sat Apr 23 2016 - 01:00

Signatories: eight major Irish writers, seven Rising heroes

‘It’s not a historical piece. This is theatre.’ Here’s how Signatories took shape

Thu Apr 21 2016 - 06:00

Miss Emily by Nuala O’Connor: Domesticity and Dickinson’s dark side

Review: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne admires a compelling novel about the friendship of poet Emily Dickinson and her Irish maid

Sat Sept 05 2015 - 01:01

In praise of Kate O’Brien, by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘Kate O’Brien is a master of classic realism. And that’s okay now. Mount Parnassus has many mansions’

Sat Mar 07 2015 - 09:00

A poem for Ireland, poetry for everyone

The countdown is on to find Ireland’s favourite Irish poem, so we’ve asked a selection of writers and readers to tell us their favourite few lines of verse, and to nominate which poem they think is best from RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland shortlist

Sat Feb 28 2015 - 06:00

Brought to Book: Anakana Schofield on parallel reading, the literary patriarchy and books as portals

‘I write in a very troubling manner that I wouldn’t advise anyone to adopt’

Mon May 19 2014 - 01:00

Imagination in the classroom – and how, in the past, schools destroyed creativity

Forget the inspirational teachers and creative encouragement that many writers experienced at school. Playwright Frank McGuinness recalls a schooling in the 1950s and 60s that sickens his stomach, and ‘beat the lining out of any love for exploring the intricacies of language’

Tue Mar 11 2014 - 02:00