Sally Rooney’s novel Intermezzo is fastest-selling book in Republic this year
Normal People author’s title sold almost 12,000 copies in first five days on market
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David Nicholls: ‘I’m lucky enough to have lots of Irish friends and hope that I got away with writing an Irish character’
The author of One Day on his new novel, You Are Here; the Irish writers he admires; and father-son relationships
Irish author Paul Murray scoops top prize at inaugural Nero Book Awards
Dublin-born writer’s The Bee Sting hailed as ‘fiction of the finest calibre’ at London ceremony
Paul Murray and Michael Magee win inaugural Nero book awards
Murray's Booker-shortlisted The Bee Sting wins fiction prize; Magee's Close to Home wins debut fiction prize
Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize winner is Ireland’s bestselling book of 2023
Prophet Song pips Liz Nugent’s Strange Sally Diamond and Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting
Irish fiction 2008-2023: Flourishing scene emerges from period of upheaval
Ireland has borne witness to one of the most significant periods in its modern literary history, a winning-streak that shows no sign of abating
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray is An Post Irish Book of the Year 2023
Tragicomic family saga secures top prize on top of Novel of the Year award
Paul Murray wins Novel of the Year for The Bee Sting at the An Post Irish Book Awards
Other winners include Mark Moriarty for Cookbook of the Year, and Katriona O’Sullivan for Biography of the Year and Listener’s Choice Award
Which of the three Pauls nominated for the Booker prize will win? There’s only one Paul for me
It’s a nailbiting time for readers. Five Irish authors have won the Booker since it began in 1969
Irish Book Awards 2023 shortlist: Paul Murray, Liz Nugent, Liam Brady and PJ Gallagher nominated
Winners of the 18th year of the An Post book awards will be announced at a ceremony in November
Anne Enright, Sally Rooney, Paul Murray among authors calling for end to destruction in Palestine
Former hostage John McCarthy and many leading Irish writers, actors and musicians among signatories of London Review of Books open letter
AI and Irish writers: ‘I fear my life, in a strange way, is also being appropriated’
Irish authors whose works are in a data set used to train AI share their views
The Booker Prize boost: ‘It certainly changed the way people look at me’
Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright and Irish booksellers on the real difference the prestigious award makes as two Irish writers hit shortlist
Booker Prize 2023: Irish authors Paul Murray and Paul Lynch make shortlist
Sarah Bernstein, Jonathan Escoffery, Paul Harding and Chetna Maroo also in for £50,000 award
‘Miracle’ of Irish literature celebrated as four Booker prize nominees gather in Dublin
Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray give selection of readings in city centre
Booker Prize 2023: Four Irish writers make this year’s longlist
Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray join nine other authors in the running for the literary award
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray: Hugely entertaining tragicomic fiction about painful family dynamics
An ambitious, expansive novel where the darkness is never too far away
Paul Murray: ‘Terrible things happen in Ireland, and we are so good as a people at masking ourselves’
Author talks the dark world of his latest novel, spending time in Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse and why he always feels he has to dig himself out of a hole
John Boyne: I was abused at Terenure College, but not by John McClean
I’ve failed in every romantic relationship and now engage only in meaningless encounters
John Boyne sets up short-story competition for kids cooped up at home
Cecelia Ahern joins judging panel and helps fund prizes for contest for six- to 18-year-olds
Literature groups to issue call for greater support
Words Ireland make pre-Budget submission for increase in financial backing for writers
At last canonical status is being conferred on author Lafcadio Hearn
These shocking and enthralling Japanese ghost stories have too long been underappreciated in the West
Metal Heart: Hugh O’Conor’s charming comedy set in middle-class suburban Dublin
Review: The film, directed by the former child actor, is stuffed with good dialogue
Hugh O’Conor: ‘I had to go to Irish college rather than be in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’
The ‘My Left Foot’ child actor does not only act - he’s now a writer and film-maker too
Bones of convention – Frank McNally on a dying Japanese custom
Ritual of Senkotsu requires the family to reassemble, disinter the body, and wash the bones
Feast Days by Ian MacKenzie review: A truly convincing female voice
The astute, captivating story of expat life of an American woman in Brazil
The best films from the 30th Galway Film Fleadh
The 2018 Fleadh was defined by some first-class documentaries. Evidence that we can’t escape our violent past came with Keepers of the Flame, Unquiet Graves and I, Dolours
Pro-choice campaigners in Sligo confident about referendum
‘Out of hundreds of houses, I reckon we came across six negatives’
Frank Murray ‘the consumate professional’, funeral hears
Public servant was completely committed to locating remains of Disappeared, Mass told
‘Are you willing to lose a relationship over cutlery?’ ‘Yes, I am’
In conversation: Sarah Breen and Joanne McNally
‘Every game’s an away game to us’: The Republic’s Derry fans
A city always fond of football has found added voice thanks to ‘the James McClean effect’
Attacker of 89-year-old woman had 96 convictions
Man given 10-year jail sentence for assault in woman’s home that ‘amounted to torture’
What history teaches us when Lions tours go to a decider
Looking back at the 10 times when the series was still alive going into the final game
‘I will ruin her’: Man jailed for sexually assaulting ‘comatose’ woman
Assault comes to light when Wicklow man involved in crash and gardaí recover phone
‘A degrading, humiliating, horrific, shocking and terrifying ordeal’
Wicklow man sentenced to 10 years for savage attack on woman (89)
Greece letter: Walking line between tradition and modernity
Must a small nation loosen grip of the past in order to embrace benefits of the future?
John Boyne: ‘Irish writers are too insular’
The prolific novelist tells Patrick Freyne about being gay in pre-marriage referendum Ireland – and how the success of ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ changed his life
The Dragon-Ship: a short story by Paul Murray
The Vikings return in Paul Murray’s short story, in the continuing series from the creative-writing programme Dublin in the Coming Times, which imagines the city’s future
Paul Murray and Hannah Rothschild win Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
Winners to receive pigs named after their novels, a jeroboam of Champagne Bollinger and the complete Everyman Wodehouse collection at Hay Festival
Anatomy of a scam: six men and an attempted insurance fraud
Last Monday, the crash compensation case came before Dublin Circuit Court
Five men withdraw €300,000 injury claims over ‘set up’ crash
Judge agrees with defence counsel that scam was hatched in advance
Sentencing of former Wicklow clerk guilty of corruption adjourned
Sentencing adjourned after counsel claims Frank O’Toole’s pension may be affected
Court asks gardaí to investigate alleged ‘staged accident’
Counsel for Zurich Insurance told court injuries claim by Patrick Ward withdrawn
Irish fiction in the digital age: doom and gloom or boom and bloom?
The Irish novel may be at a crossroads, says Bert Wright, but Irish fiction is as vibrant and multifarious now as fiction has ever been in any culture in literary history
Literary listings: Irish head for Edinburgh, and Library Voices at Dun Laoghaire
Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books
Ten things we learned at West Cork Literary Festival
Writers can get very angry but they shouldn’t go to the gym: these and other literary nuggets were divulged in Bantry
Paul Murray: ‘The banks were full of basket cases'
The ‘Skippy Dies’ author hadn’t planned to write his next novel, ‘The Mark and the Void’, about the financial crash, but he couldn’t help himself once he read about bankers’ antics
Former council official to be tried on corruption charges
Frank O’Toole to appear before Wicklow Circuit Court over 2006 allegations in November
How Patrick Lafcadio Hearn travelled around the world for 150 years, before making his mark in Waterford
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, who is perhaps better known in Japan than the country he was born in, is finally getting the recognition he deserves thanks to Tramore’s new memorial gardens
The writing ritual: from blank page to Booker contender
Doughnuts and cigarettes or blindfold, earmuffs and earplugs? Writers can have odd ways of getting ready for their working day – or night. Gavin Corbett, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Henrietta McKervey, Thomas Morris and Paul Murray take us into their creative worlds
10 summer releases to watch out for
New novels from Milan Kundera, Paul Murray and Nuala Ní Chonchúir are among the season's highlights
Corruption case of former Wicklow town clerk adjourned
Frank O’Toole facing charges of issuing a letter to corruptly obtain ‘an advantage for another person’
Rangers shareholders put their faith in new director Dave King
Scottish businessman promises to plot a brighter future for club’s long-suffering fans
Rangers shareholders vote to remove Derek Llambias and Barry Leach
Dave King, Paul Murray and John Gilligan to take over after receiving neary 86% of vote
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