Colin Barrett

Booker Prize 2024 shortlist: women dominate but sole male author is a likely favourite

‘Literary recognition is often still reserved for men’ observes judge Sara Collins as record number of women make six-strong shortlist

Mon Sept 16 2024 - 19:30

Booker Prize 2024 longlist: Irish author Colin Barrett makes 13-strong list

The judges called Mayo writer’s Wild Houses ‘a propulsive, darkly comic account of misadventure in a small Irish town’

Tue Jul 30 2024 - 14:00

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

Sat Jul 06 2024 - 05:15

The Guide: Rock Against Homelessness, Listowel Writers’ Week and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end

May 25th-31st, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Sat May 25 2024 - 05:00

Colin Barrett: ‘My biggest fear was who’s going to want to read stories about lads in chip shops in small towns?’

The author’s writing, including his excellent debut novel, is firmly rooted in Mayo where he grew up

Sun Jan 21 2024 - 06:00

Fiction to look out for in 2024: Returning favourites, a fearsome degenerate, and Ireland’s trailblazing all-woman rock band

New novels by Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín and Marian Keyes are among the works in the pipeline, along with eagerly anticipated debuts by Ferdia Lennon and Scott McKendry

Sat Dec 30 2023 - 06:03

How a tiny literary magazine became a springboard for great Irish writing

The Stinging Fly, which is celebrating 25 years, has helped launch the careers of many of Ireland’s most promising writers

Tue Apr 11 2023 - 05:00

The Rules of Revelation: Violence and verve in modern-day Cork

Old hurts and grievances are aired in Lisa McInerney's engaging third novel

Tue May 18 2021 - 06:00

Calm with Horses: Barry Keoghan shines in a poorly plotted Irish film

Review: Tense, well-acted drama about mad hoodlums starts to drift towards the end

Thu Mar 12 2020 - 05:30

Dublin the last international film festival to dodge the global shutdown

The singularly imaginative film, one of many discoveries, was a worthy winner

Mon Mar 09 2020 - 11:55

Screen Ireland hosts Cannes women event as it steps up funding parity plan

Agency announces winners of low-budget feature film scheme for female talent

Mon May 20 2019 - 05:21

The debut books and authors to look out for in 2019

We asked some writers to tell us about their debuts ahead of their publication

Thu Jan 17 2019 - 05:00

How to improve Ireland’s small towns? ‘Irish Times’ readers share their ideas

We asked readers how to reverse the decline of small towns. Here are your suggestions

Mon Dec 03 2018 - 11:59

A grim dystopian Ireland that is all too believable

Review: The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow, a debut novel by Cork author Danny Denton

Sat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00

One Star Awake by Andrew Meehan: Blackout in the city of light

A debut novel from an Irish author shines on the subjects of trauma and memory loss

Sat Sept 23 2017 - 06:00

Why is there a monument to 1,186 Irish emigrants in Toronto?

Man with arms raised towards CN Tower says: ‘I’m here, and I’m your responsibility’

Mon Jul 17 2017 - 14:00

Winter Pages: a treasure trove of soul fuel with deep roots in Irish soil

If this standard is kept up, writes Kevin Gildea, then Winter Pages will become as essential as a warm fire on the wet miserable nights of our Irish winter lives

Wed Dec 02 2015 - 11:38

Irish fiction in the digital age: doom and gloom or boom and bloom?

The Irish novel may be at a crossroads, says Bert Wright, but Irish fiction is as vibrant and multifarious now as fiction has ever been in any culture in literary history

Mon Sept 21 2015 - 16:23

The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley review: undertaker with a death wish

This darkly funny debut novel from a former Dublin mortician offers a unique perspective on dying

Sat Aug 08 2015 - 01:00

Giving voice to the short story in ‘a sad, twisted melancholy sort of night’

Anne Enright champions short-story writers at Galway International Arts Festival

Thu Jul 30 2015 - 04:00

The six authors in the mix for Frank O’Connor award

On Wednesday a winner will be announced for the most lucrative short-story prize in the world

Tue Jul 07 2015 - 14:08

10 things we learned at Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas

Who is David Gilmour’s favourite lyricist? Why are film adaptations inferior to the books? Can poetry replace liturgy? All these questions and more were answered in Co Carlow

Wed Jun 17 2015 - 01:00

Michael Longley shortlisted for $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize

Seven Irish authors longlisted for 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; Ruth Frances Long wins Best Creator of Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy

Wed Apr 29 2015 - 12:18

We need to talk about Colin Barrett: a round-up of reviews, interviews and musings

A variety of takes on Young Skins and some thoughts from the award-winning author himself

Fri Mar 27 2015 - 12:07

The Clancy Kid, by Colin Barrett

Taken from his award-winning short story collection, Young Skins, this month's Irish Times Book Club choice, this is a powerful tale of lost youth in the west of Ireland

Fri Feb 27 2015 - 12:27

Young Skins by Colin Barrett is the new Irish Times Book Club reading choice

The debut short story collection has won the Guardian first book award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award

Mon Feb 23 2015 - 11:27