Time of the Child by Niall Williams: A warm and life-affirming story about ordinary people going to extraordinary lengths
Williams favours lyrical language, lines that run on with an abundance of detail, lush and opining
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Niall Williams: ‘I am here to write the books I’m supposed to write, not the books an Irish Times reviewer would like’
A critical savaging for his first play scarred the author of Time of the Child. You can’t try to please people, he says. You have to do your own thing
This Is Happiness: Comic and nostalgic sweep of rural Irish life
Review: Niall Williams’s novel delivers us back into a world with fewer problems than modern age
Meet the bright young things of Irish writing
Young Irish fiction writers have made strides in recent years, and 2018 promises some fine debuts. Here six authors introduce their books
What’s on across Ireland this weekend
Waterford Writers’ Weekend, Mayfly angling festival, banjos and set dancing
The L factor: a literary ambassador for Ireland
Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction
Niall Williams on the quote that made him ditch the piano and take up writing
‘You remember what the New York Times said about The Great Gatsby? Neither does anyone else.’
Two Irish authors make Man Booker long list
Niall Williams nominated for ‘History of the Rain’ and Joseph O’Neill in running for ‘The Dog’
Family saga awash with good, if meandering, intentions
With many a turn, quotation, vignette and reminiscence, Ruth Swain, the narrator of Niall Williams’s new novel, navigates a river narrative that is also her family history
Kilkenny camogie players aiming to finish on the ultimate grace note
Garce Walsh and senior team will be out to fill most the glaring gap in their championship CVs with victory over Galway
In a realm of higher purpose
FICTION: BOY AND MAN takes up the story of Jay and his grandfather, the Master, which began in Niall Williams's previous novel…
As It Is In Heaven, by Niall Williams (Picador, £5.99 in UK)
A certain poignancy suffuses this bitter-sweet novel about passionate love giving way to commitment, grief to a sort of healing…
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