Paul Murray

Sarah Bernstein, Jonathan Escoffery, Paul Harding  and Chetna Maroo also in for £50,000 award

Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray give selection of readings in city centre

Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray join nine other authors in the running for the literary award

An ambitious, expansive novel where the darkness is never too far away

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

I’ve failed in every romantic relationship and now engage only in meaningless encounters

Cecelia Ahern joins judging panel and helps fund prizes for contest for six- to 18-year-olds

Words Ireland make pre-Budget submission for increase in financial backing for writers

These shocking and enthralling Japanese ghost stories have too long been underappreciated in the West

Review: The film, directed by the former child actor, is stuffed with good dialogue

The ‘My Left Foot’ child actor does not only act - he’s now a writer and film-maker too

Ritual of Senkotsu requires the family to reassemble, disinter the body, and wash the bones

The astute, captivating story of expat life of an American woman in Brazil

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

‘Out of hundreds of houses, I reckon we came across six negatives’

Public servant was completely committed to locating remains of Disappeared, Mass told

In conversation: Sarah Breen and Joanne McNally

A city always fond of football has found added voice thanks to ‘the James McClean effect’

Man given 10-year jail sentence for assault in woman’s home that ‘amounted to torture’

Looking back at the 10 times when the series was still alive going into the final game

Assault comes to light when Wicklow man involved in crash and gardaí recover phone

Wicklow man sentenced to 10 years for savage attack on woman (89)

Must a small nation loosen grip of the past in order to embrace benefits of the future?

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 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

Winners to receive pigs named after their novels, a jeroboam of Champagne Bollinger and the complete Everyman Wodehouse collection at Hay Festival

Last Monday, the crash compensation case came before Dublin Circuit Court

Judge agrees with defence counsel that scam was hatched in advance

Sentencing adjourned after counsel claims Frank O’Toole’s pension may be affected

Counsel for Zurich Insurance told court injuries claim by Patrick Ward withdrawn

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

Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books

Writers can get very angry but they shouldn’t go to the gym: these and other literary nuggets were divulged in Bantry

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

Frank O’Toole to appear before Wicklow Circuit Court over 2006 allegations in November

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

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

New novels from Milan Kundera, Paul Murray and Nuala Ní Chonchúir are among the season's highlights

Frank O’Toole facing charges of issuing a letter to corruptly obtain ‘an advantage for another person’

Scottish businessman promises to plot a brighter future for club’s long-suffering fans