Brought to book: Alison Healy on some unwise rejections of authors’ manuscripts by publishers
An American publisher dismissed them as unfunny, senseless and dull
Roddy Doyle
Them’s Fighting Words with Roddy Doyle review: A fun portrait of 21st-century teenage creativity
Television: The good work done by Fighting Words on the north side of Dublin is celebrated in this agreeable, if at times workmanlike, documentary
Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle announce May 2026 shows
Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle are set to bring their In Conversation show to Dublin and Belfast next year
‘I instinctively picked up the H, O, P, and E’: Print Museum and graphic artist collaborate
Anthony Burrill joins forces with printers Freddie Snowe and John King for new work made using historic equipment
This year’s Booker winner David Szalay: ‘I really appreciate Roddy Doyle’s simple, practical advice’
Booker Prize winner David Szalay, who abandoned Flesh several times in the early stages, stresses the importance of risk when writing a novel
Booker Prize 2025: David Szalay wins for Flesh
‘We had never read anything quite like it,’ says judging panel chair Roddy Doyle of the author’s ‘extraordinary, singular’ novel
Def Leppard frontman’s neighbour rocked by high decibels emanating from Stepaside home
Plus: the other Guinness book; Roddy Doyle’s struggles to read the Booker small print; and Paul Murphy’s worries about Irish military aggression
Booker Prize 2025: Kiran Desai, David Szalay and Andrew Miller among shortlisted authors
Established authors dominate this year’s shortlist with half of the nominees shortlisted previously
Roddy Doyle: ‘I got a phone call from one of the New Yorker’s famous fact-checkers’
Authors Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Colin Barrett and Belinda McKeon reflect on the Irish relationship with the magazine ahead of an Abbey Theatre celebration
Roy Keane Live at the Marquee: ‘I think Paul McGrath could kill the pope and they’d say the pope deserved it’
Keane is epitome of chill during polished performance with Roddy Doyle in Cork
Roy Keane’s life has had many twists and turns, but his love for Cork never wavered
Keane is in Cork this week for three sold-out evenings in conversation with Roddy Doyle. Earlier in his life, this would have been unimaginable
Event guide: Pulp, Beyond the Pale, Cork Midsummer and other best things to do in Ireland this week
Ireland event guide for the week June 7th–13th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way
Almost 400 Irish writers sign statement calling for immediate ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann statement calls for release of hostages and protection of the lives and human rights of all innocent people
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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