Literary greats gather in Galway city for literature festival

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

Do you lose sleep over how much sleep you get?

Is a growing obsession with tracking sleep keeping us up all night?

Ballymaloe’s LitFest will not be back in 2018

The food festival, which created some great memories last weekend, is taking a one-year break

Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards winning authors revealed

Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones is novel of the year. Winners include Marian Keyes, Graham Norton, Paul Howard, Paul O’Connell and Tana French

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

Sara Baume at UL; Neil Hegarty turns to fiction; Patrick Gale in Belfast

Adrian McKinty signs on wavy line; Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer; Peter McDonald at TCD; Allingham Festival

Poetry: Opening the world in intimate, surprising and revealing ways

Douglas Hyde Conference to focus on Ireland’s rural heritage

Speakers will reflect on contribution to arts of north midlands region