Authors

This month

October 2026

Stockholm

'They're all crazy': Canadian poet Anne Carson reacts to winning Nobel Prize in literature

Updated 8 Oct

6.7k

House Of Lords

British novelist and former Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86

5 Oct

12.9k

Last month

September 2026

Opinionnew books

Every field has a story: Meet the family behind Ireland’s ‘Clarkson’s Farm’

Farmers Liv and Phil Stewart

18 Sep

8.0k

This year

2026

new books

Pirate queens, powerbrokers & public servants: Anne Chambers on her life as an Irish biographer

Anne Chambers

21 Apr

3.2k

Last year

2025

Books

World Autism Month: Life as a Second Language — an excerpt from new book, Wired Our Own Way

Naoise Dolan

12 Apr 2025

7.5k

book extract

Pop music history: 'Women music managers were few and far between'

Dr Michael Murphy

5 Apr 2025

4.2k

eternal city

Chieftains, diplomats and Joyce: Joseph O'Connor looks at the Irish connections to Rome

Joseph O'Connor

4 Feb 2025

6.0k

All time

Irish book awards

Atlas of the Irish civil war: How republicans mobilised Irish America over the Treaty

Hélène O’Keefe, John Crowley, Donal Ó Drisceoil, John Borgonovo and Mike Murphy

14 Nov 2024

5.0k

BRIAN FRIEL

Extract: While researching something else, I came across Brian Friel's story - I was fascinated

Kelly Matthews

6 Jun 2024

8.3k

Books

Jordan Lees: Dreaming up the enchanted world of The Whisperwicks was a journey in itself

Jordan Lees

7 Apr 2024

5.3k

author

Extract: 'I felt a kind of bereavement for the Mayo of my youth and my stories'

Colin Barrett

12 Feb 2024

13.0k

Books

These are 10 of the best Irish novels of 2023

26 Dec 2023

31.1k

sunday miscellany

Extract: 'She is funny and puts herself down, but in a funny way, so it’s okay'

Mia Döring

24 Oct 2023

17.2k

irish rivers

Extract: 'Gently paced and physically undemanding, the voyage was the essence of slow travel'

Gwen Wilkinson

4 Jun 2023

11.2k

comfort reads

The books that brought writers like Roddy Doyle and Tana French comfort in 2020

30 Dec 2020

15.0k

read this

These are the Irish novels to look out for in early 2020

29 Dec 2019

25.3k

omgwaca

How the Facebook page Oh My God, What A Complete Aisling became a publishing phenomenon

9 Sep 2017

25.0k

roalddahlday

13 memories everyone who grew up loving Roald Dahl books will remember

13 Sep 2016

7.2k

a novel idea

Could you write a book? These 11 and 12-year-olds have

1 Jun 2015

7.5k

books are my bag

Do you prefer buying books in bookshops or online?

9 Oct 2014

10.0k

winners

Irish Book Award winners: Roddy Doyle, Darina Allen, David Walsh and Fintan O'Toole

26 Nov 2013

8.2k

the catcher in the rye

JD Salinger may publish five more books despite his death in 2010

26 Aug 2013

6.2k

Man Booker Prize

Three Irish authors make Man Booker Prize longlist

23 Jul 2013

7.6k

Write Stuff

Dublin Writers Festival "getting bigger and bigger"

4 Jun 2012

1.9k

Reading

Events being held across Ireland to celebrate World Book Day

1 Mar 2012

1.8k

Facepalm

Prepare to cringe: US author wins the Bad Sex in Fiction Award - and it's bad

7 Dec 2011

5.3k

Booker Prize

Sebastian Barry misses out on Booker shortlist

6 Sep 2011

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