# writing - Wednesday 29 December, 2021
# Get Reading
# Get Reading
From history to photography.
# writing - Wednesday 10 November, 2021
# Writing Our History
# Writing Our History
The Irish songwriter has written a book about the Famine, something that he never expected to do, he tells us.
# writing - Thursday 4 November, 2021
# Opinion
# Opinion
An Post Irish Book Awards nominee Rosaleen McDonagh has written a searing book of essays – here, she writes about their genesis.
# writing - Monday 27 September, 2021
# Short Stories
# Short Stories
The Third Day by Kevin Donnellan has won this year’s competition.
# writing - Sunday 11 July, 2021
# Young Writers
# Young Writers
Enjoy new work by young Irish authors, excerpted from the Paper Lanterns journal, this Sunday morning.
# writing - Wednesday 10 March, 2021
# The Disconnect
# The Disconnect
Writer Roisin Kiberd looks at the world of the internet – and the effect it has on our lives – in her new essay collection, The Disconnect. Here, she takes us through her early days online.
# writing - Tuesday 9 March, 2021
# Opinion
# Opinion
Author Rónán Hession’s debut novel Leonard and Hungry Paul is this year’s One Dublin One Book selection – here, he writes about the joy reading has brought to his life.
# writing - Wednesday 30 December, 2020
# Comfort Reads
# Comfort Reads
Irish and Ireland-based writers, including Roddy Doyle, Sinéad Gleeson and Tana French, tell us about the books that soothed them this year.
# writing - Sunday 20 September, 2020
# New Irish Writing
# New Irish Writing
The Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa explores the life of the writer Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill in her lauded new book.
# writing - Saturday 8 August, 2020
# Opinion
# Opinion
We have some tips from author Vincent Woods to inspire you.
# writing - Sunday 8 March, 2020
# Strange Hotel
# Strange Hotel
The critically-acclaimed Irish author speaks to us about her new novel Strange Hotel.
# writing - Sunday 23 February, 2020
# Dita Kraus
# Dita Kraus
Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus has written a memoir about her time in Auschwitz.
# writing - Sunday 29 December, 2019
# Read This
# Read This
It’s going to be a jam-packed year.
# writing - Wednesday 4 December, 2019
# Sports Writing
From The42
# Sports Writing
The much-respected journalist and author joins Gavin Cooney.
# writing - Saturday 16 November, 2019
# Ireland
# Ireland
Macardle was a friend of Éamon de Valera, and he wrote the foreword to her book The Irish Republic.
# writing - Thursday 7 November, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
The legendary JP Donleavy’s publisher writes about how the author brought a ‘sprinkle of stardust’ with him when he arrived in Ireland.
# writing - Sunday 27 October, 2019
# EXTRACT
# EXTRACT
The essay is one of those featured in the new book, Miscellany 50.
# writing - Saturday 22 June, 2019
# Emily Ruskovich
# Emily Ruskovich
Idaho is inspired by author Emily Ruskovich’s childhood.
# writing - Friday 12 April, 2019
# Treatment
# Treatment
The piece beautifully details his diagnosis to treatment.
# writing - Tuesday 30 October, 2018
# Opinion
# Opinion
Crime writer Sam Blake explains that writing and reading crime can help you get away from the news when it’s grim. And unlike in real life, there’ll always be a satisfying ending.
# writing - Tuesday 7 August, 2018
# The Negotiators
# The Negotiators
The former Sinn Féin president has already published numerous memoirs and historical books.
# writing - Friday 29 December, 2017
# writing - Sunday 5 November, 2017
# Lit Festival
# Lit Festival
We talked to them about how they did it.
# writing - Saturday 4 November, 2017
# Bgeibas
# Bgeibas
The author of I Found My Tribe, who is married to the late Simon Fitzmaurice, is nominated for an Irish Book Award.
# writing - Monday 30 October, 2017
# Read Me
# Read Me
Clare Daly is about to self-publish her first novel, an Irish Vampire story, Our Destiny is Blood.
# writing - Thursday 5 October, 2017
# Kazuo Ishiguro
# Kazuo Ishiguro
The prize is worth 9 million kronor (€1 million).
# writing - Sunday 1 October, 2017
# Ross O'Carroll Kelly
# Ross O'Carroll Kelly
Author Paul Howard turned a Dublin stereotype into a phenomenon.
# writing - Saturday 19 August, 2017
# Writing
# Writing
Poet Hazel Hogan’s Grangegorman has been added to the recommended list.
# writing - Sunday 30 July, 2017
# Stuart Neville
# Stuart Neville
We talked to Stuart Neville, whose new book Here and Gone has been optioned for a movie.
# writing - Sunday 2 April, 2017
# Hennessy Awards
# Hennessy Awards
Read a story which won the First Fiction award at this year’s Hennessy Literary Awards.
# writing - Sunday 5 March, 2017
# A Dangerous Crossing
# A Dangerous Crossing
Author Jane Mitchell tells us why she wrote about the Syrian war in her latest book – and why she went to volunteer in Calais.
# writing - Tuesday 31 January, 2017
# Page Turner
# Page Turner
The Costa Book of the Year was formerly known as the Whitbread prize.
# writing - Sunday 25 December, 2016
# EXTRACT
# EXTRACT
The award-winning Irish writer tells us about his apprenticeship, and his journey from journalist to author.
# writing - Sunday 11 December, 2016
# Well Read
From The42
# Well Read
Plus, Harry Arter opens up about how his daughter’s memory has motivated him to help others.
# writing - Friday 18 November, 2016
# Smut
# Smut
Last year’s winner was former Smiths frontman Morrissey.
# writing - Sunday 2 October, 2016
# Killer Instinct
# Killer Instinct
We spoke to three of the country’s best authors to find out why.
# writing - Tuesday 27 September, 2016
# Lady Marian
From The Daily Edge
# Lady Marian
NOBODY say “chick lit”.
# writing - Sunday 3 July, 2016
# RIP
# RIP
Elie Wiesel wrote tens of books and was a professor and Nobel Prize winner.
# writing - Monday 28 March, 2016
# Get Writing
# Get Writing
We spoke to newly-published author Eilís Barrett, from Galway.
# writing - Sunday 6 March, 2016
# Well Read
From The42
# Well Read
These articles will get you thinking.
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