Kevin Barry and Ferdia Lennon on Walter Scott Prize longlist
Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Bookseller of the Year; Young Writer of the Year; Louise O’Neill’s six-figure deal; Limerick poetry night; Children of the Famine Trilogy
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Four Irish writers on Carnegie longlists
Books newsletter: screen deals; UL Creative Writing Festival; Ennis Book Club Festival; Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction; ILF Dublin agent dates
Paul Muldoon appointed Saoi of Aosdána
Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s pages and a round-up of the latest news
Trinity Library showcases modern greats
Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages and round-up of the latest news
University writers in residence unveiled
Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Dylan Thomas Prize; Classics Now; The Last Boy; Mick Herron award; Susan Cahill longlisted; Working-Class Writers’ Prize; Laureate na nÓg mentoring
Kate O’Brien Prize shortlist revealed
Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s pages and round-up of the latest news
Dead poets live at the Gate
Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages and a wrap of the latest news
Irish Times Eason offer is Jane Casey’s The Outsider
Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s literary pages
Franco-Irish literary award shortlist revealed
Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s pages; Yeats Winter School; Strokestown International Poetry Competition
Sebastian Barry is named a Chevalier in France’s Ordre des Arts et Lettres
Books newsletter: Kavanagh fellowships; poets on RTÉ; cultural boycott of Israel; BBC story award judges; a preview of Saturday’s pages
Susannah Dickey’s ISDAL wins PEN Heaney Prize
Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s pages; Nollaig na mBan; Pavilion shows; Polari Prizes; RSL Jerwood Poetry Awards; Dingle Lit Short Story competition
Butter by Asako Yuzuki is Waterstones Book of the Year
Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Profiles launch and show; John Calder Prize; Bookselling Ireland promotion
Colm Tóibín’s Long Island is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year
Books newsletter: A preview of Saturday’s pages; Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford Prize; Irish translator wins Stephen Spender Prize; MS Readathon; (S)worn State(s) launch at MoLI; Never Too Late Award; Dublin Literary Award judges; Limerick Writers’ Centre launch; Rory Brennan dies
Ella Sloane wins Sarah Cecilia Harrison Prize
Books newsletter: Reading campaign for Dublin teenagers; Bookselling Ireland report; preview of Saturday’s pages
Vona Groarke wins 2024 Michel Déon Prize
Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; PEN Heaney Prize and Waterstones Book of the Year shortlists; Writers in the Attic; Robert Fisk archive at TCD; Little Island’s Carnegie success
Luke Morgan wins Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award
Books newsletter: preview of Saturday’s pages; Caroline Madden book deal; Nicola Rose O’Hara film deal; John McGahern Prize deadline
A tribute to Nell McCafferty
Books newsletter: Irish Writers’ Weekend in London; Kit de Waal to judge Women’s Prize for Fiction; Oscar Wilde exhibition; Korean prize for Anna Burns
Circling The Square hits the spot
Books newsletter: Forward prizes; Baillie Gifford shortlist; Claire Keegan wins Lenz Prize; Bookshop of the Year; Writer of Courage 2024; Tanya Sweeney book deal; Leaves Festival; Macavity Awards
Anne Haverty to give Stinging Fly annual lecture
Books newsletter: Tomorrow’s pages; Irish judges for Nero awards; Rooney Writer Fellow; ISLA, Bram Stoker, IMRAM and Murder One festivals; Irish Book Week; Publishers for Palestine
Freyja Hellebust wins Gerald Griffin Competition
Books newsletter: Saturday’s pages; Belfast International Arts Festival; Red Line Book Festival; TS Eliot lecture; Allingham Festival; Oisín Fagan book deal; Semaus Heaney fellows; In Their Shoes podcast
Children’s Books Ireland reading guide launched
Books newsletter: Saturday’s pages previewed; Wendy Erskine, Fíona Scarlett, Seán Farrell book deals; TCD arts festival; Italian book festival; Anne Enright event; Dayton Literary Peace Prize; MoLI seeks new director
Lucy Caldwell up for BBC short story award
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of Saturday’s pages
Eimear McBride returns with new novel
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of Saturday’s pages
Joseph O’Connor headlines Letters for Life
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of Saturday’s pages
Mags McLoughlin appointed new head of Irish Writers Centre
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and events and a preview of Saturday’s pages
Gillian Anderson to star in Channel 4 film of Louise Kennedy’s Trespasses
Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s pages and a wrap of the latest news
Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones prize
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and a preview of Saturday’s pages
Vona Groake and Martina Evans honoured
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and Saturday’s pages previewed
Chidi Ebere wins best debut over 50 prize
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of Saturday’s pages
The Anxious Generation: Jonathan Haidt lays out potential solutions to the crisis, all of which depend upon collective action
Haidt invites us to consider the many harms of the Great Rewiring in terms of the ‘opportunity cost’ of near total immersion in a virtual world
Garth Risk Hallberg’s The Second Coming: Bigger isn’t always better
Creaking under its own weight, at half the size this could have been twice as powerful
Una Mannion wins Gold Dagger Award
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages
Rebecca Watson: ‘There’s a simpler way to tell the story. But it would feel less honest to me’
The author’s new book continues to play with layout to convey consciousness but spans a longer stretch of time than her debut
Myles Dungan: ‘Rural Ireland was riddled with class distinctions’
‘Agrarian insurgencies predated the struggle for independence. Most were far more prolonged, bloody and militarily effective than nationalist uprisings,’ says the historian
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