Brought to book: John BanvilleThe first in a new weekly series interrogating authors about all things literary: ‘I should have made it all up. The world imagined is always more convincing than the world researched’Thu Mar 13 2014 - 06:00
Miscarriage of justice made into a masterpieceLast in trilogy of literary thrillers exploring North’s dark underbellySat Mar 01 2014 - 01:00
Funny and frank: a worthy hitTracey Thorn tops the charts with a memoir of her career with Everything But the GirlTue Feb 25 2014 - 14:46
NI Arts Council funds Lough Derg: the musical and Hurricane Higgins: the novelColin Bateman and Eoin McNamee among four artists to receive £15,000 awardsMon Feb 24 2014 - 16:04
Harry Potter-style hysteria predicted for release of Morrissey’s autobiography480-page book to come out in paperback as a Penguin ClassicFri Oct 04 2013 - 13:51
Irish novel shortlisted for prize after years of rejectionsEimear McBride’s ‘A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing’ deals with familiar themes in an innovative wayTue Oct 01 2013 - 13:24
Davy Byrnes short story competition returnsFormer winner Anne Enright among judges for €15,000 prizeMon Sept 23 2013 - 15:50
Three Irish novelists on tenterhooks over Booker shortlistDonal Ryan, Colm Tóibín and Colum McCann hope to be among six nomineesMon Sept 09 2013 - 22:15
Traditional music meets futuristic online teachingSome of Ireland’s best trad musicians are teaching students around the world via SkypeSat Mar 09 2013 - 00:00
Guidelines could prove last straw for church cribsHard on the heels of the pope controversially questioning the biblical basis for having donkeys and oxen in Nativity scenes, …Mon Dec 31 2012 - 00:00
Clutter turns to cash as buy and sell sites give shopping a faceliftThe latest social media shopping phenomenon is an online version of the car boot saleSat Nov 24 2012 - 00:00
Irish recession is music to Londoners' earsIRELAND’S DIFFICULTY is England’s opportunityFri Mar 11 2011 - 00:00
How cutting cabbages forged a future of fantastic proportionsDerek Landy, whose book ‘Skulduggery Pleasant’ has been voted Irish Book of the Decade, spent six years working on his family…Wed Jun 02 2010 - 01:00
'Irish Post' co-founder and former editor dies aged 73BREANDÁN MAC LUA, who co-founded the Irish Post newspaper in London in 1970 and edited it for its first 18 years, has died after…Thu Jan 15 2009 - 00:00
