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The best books of 2024 so far: writers and critics choose their favourite reads
Colm Tóibín’s Long Island, Lucy Caldwell’s Openings, Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits and Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments are among the novels with multiple selections
Fifteen great audiobooks for your summer holidays and beyond
From Ann Patchett read by Meryl Streep to Anne Enright read by the author, there are plenty of books to curl up with this summer
The Guide: Kilkenny Cat Laughs, Forbidden Fruit and more events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
June 1st-7th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
David Nicholls: ‘I’m lucky enough to have lots of Irish friends and hope that I got away with writing an Irish character’
The author of One Day on his new novel, You Are Here; the Irish writers he admires; and father-son relationships
Women’s Prize for Fiction: Anne Enright and Claire Kilroy shortlisted
Previous winner Kate Grenville and debut writer Aube Rey Lescure also on shortlist
Writer Maggie Armstrong: ‘I wanted to be a wastrel. I had no ambitions ever, for anything. Is that a symptom of the age?’
Maggie Armstrong, a former journalist, was always a ‘bit envious’ of the people she interviewed. She reflects on her decision to take her writing seriously
Rebecca Ivory: ‘I don’t know if I’d be a writer if I were born into a different family’
The author on people who repeat their mistakes, her grandfather’s cartoon and her admiration for John Candy’s character in Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Irish writers Anne Enright, Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan named on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist
Anne Enright, Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan in running for £30,000 fiction award
‘I was heart jealous of the French girl my age at the next table’: Irish writers’ most memorable meals
From chicken and chips in foggy Venice, to the simple beauty of a tomato and an egg
Irish Book Awards 2023 shortlist: Paul Murray, Liz Nugent, Liam Brady and PJ Gallagher nominated
Winners of the 18th year of the An Post book awards will be announced at a ceremony in November
Anne Enright, Sally Rooney, Paul Murray among authors calling for end to destruction in Palestine
Former hostage John McCarthy and many leading Irish writers, actors and musicians among signatories of London Review of Books open letter
AI and Irish writers: ‘I fear my life, in a strange way, is also being appropriated’
Irish authors whose works are in a data set used to train AI share their views
The Booker Prize boost: ‘It certainly changed the way people look at me’
Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright and Irish booksellers on the real difference the prestigious award makes as two Irish writers hit shortlist
‘Anne Enright’s work blows wide open our tradition and traditions’
Prof Margaret Kelleher’s speech launching the Booker Prize winning author’s The Wren, The Wren
Anne Enright: ‘People that go around complaining they don’t win prizes … I always think of Trump and Georgia’
The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright: it may be her best book yet. Not only a triumph but a joy
Latest novel from the Booker winner explores family dynamics with wit and empathy
The Irish Times books of the year: Anne Enright’s favourite titles of 2021
Seeking inspiration for a book to read or give as a gift? This selection could help you
Aosdána names five newly elected members
Writer Anne Enright and visual artist Amanda Coogan among association’s new members
Learwife by JR Thorp: A brilliant fleshing-out of King Lear’s forgotten woman
Vivid reimagining of the queen shows the Shakespearean scholar what they’re missing
Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You tops Irish and British book charts
Irish author’s novel has sold over 12,000 copies in Ireland and over 40,000 in UK
Jennifer O’Connell: Why does Sally Rooney wind people up?
If criticism focused on the novelist’s work, fair enough, but much is of the how-dare-she variety
Same-sex parents: ‘There isn’t a predesigned idea of how things will work’
Dr Claire Lynch hopes her debut memoir will ‘offer a new perspective on motherhood’
How The Irish Times reviewed ‘an impressive young Ulster poet’ named Seamus Heaney in 1966
Michael Longley’s review of Death of a Naturalist was not entirely uncritical
‘Ulysses was a large stomachful.’ How The Irish Times reviewed James Joyce in the 1920s
Our original review of Finnegans Wake said the book was ‘exciting in its impenetrability’
House in Joyce’s The Dead to be turned into hostel despite Tóibín appeal
Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce
The Panic Years: In search of motherhood
Book review: Journalist Nell Frizzell wanted a baby but her bodyclock was a time bomb
The Art of Falling: Engaging debut novel by past master of fiction
Danielle McLaughlin cleverly explores inspiration, ownership and betrayal across several narrative strains
Claire Byrne’s inconvenient facts burst Stephen Donnelly’s bubble
Radio review: The calmly forensic style of the host unpicks the Minister for Health’s assertions
Anne Enright: ‘I looked at how men manage their confidence and took a few leads’
The author appeared at The Irish Times Summer Nights Festival on Wednesday evening
David McWilliams: ‘Ireland is three decisions away from being a perfect country’
McWilliams and Dermot Bannon were the first guests at the Irish Times Summer Nights Festival
Anne Enright: Nuala O’Faolain was an impossible person, to whom we owe so much
Older feminists are not always delighted when the young enjoy freedoms they fought for
‘Ten of the best books set in Ireland’: Does the Guardian get it right?
In this article the paper says novels by Sally Rooney and Colm Tóibín will transport you here
The Nacullians: Families as another brick in the wall
Craig Jordan-Baker explores a migrant Irish bricklayer and his clan with metafictional flair
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