Pictures: Winners of the Irish Book Awards 2012

Award winners included, Katie Taylor, Edna O’ Brien, John Banville, Mary O’Rourke, Catherine Fulvio, and Maeve Binchy.

OVER 50 IRISH authors gathered for the seventh Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards at the RDS last night to celebrate the best of Irish literature published in the last year.

Winners included, Katie Taylor, Edna O’ Brien, John Banville, Mary O’Rourke, Catherine Fulvio, and Maeve Binchy.

Novelist and playwright Jennifer Johnston was presented with the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award by Joseph O’Connor for her contribution to Irish literature.

Among the 350 in attendance were Senator David Norris, hurling star Lar Corbett, comedian Maeve Higgins, Keith Ridgeway, David Park, and Cecelia Ahern.

Check out some of the glamour from the night:

Pictures: Winners of the Irish Book Awards 2012

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Irish Book Awards 2012
Cathy Kelly, John Banville and Cecelia Ahern
Irish Book Awards 2012
Alice Taylor, Gordon Snell (Maeve Binchy's Husband) and Edna O'Brien.
Irish Book Awards 2012
RTE's John Murray and Claire Byrne
Irish Book Awards 2012
Katie Taylor and Cecelia Ahern.
Irish Book Awards 2012
Paul Howard and Paul Kimmage
Irish Book Awards 2012
Maeve Higgins and Domini Kemp.
Irish Book Awards 2012
Katie Taylor
Irish Book Awards 2012
Joseph O' Connor and Jennifer Johnston.
Irish Book Awards 2012
John Banville, winner of the Easons Novel of the Year
Irish Book Awards 2012
Donal Ryan
Irish Book Awards 2012
Cecilia Ahern and David Norris.

Category winners:

Eason Novel of the Year: Ancient Light by John Banville
RTÉ Radio 1’s John Murray Show Listeners’ Choice Award: Just Mary by Mary O’ Rourke
Ireland AM Crime Fiction Book of the Year: Broken Harbour by Tana French
Avonmore Cookbook of the Year: Eat like an Italian by Catherine Fulvio
The Argosy Non-Fiction Book of the Year: Country Girl by Edna O’ Brien
Eason Popular Fiction Book of the Year: A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
Lifestyle Sports Sports Book of the Year: My Olympic Dream by Katie Taylor
Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year: The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
International Education Services Best Irish Published Book of the Year: Atlas of the Great Irish Famine by John Crowley, William J. Smyth and Mike Murphy
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year Junior: This Moose Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year Senior: Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer
Bord Gáis Energy Bookshop of the Year: Bridge Street Books, Wicklow Town

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