With one novel published and two more on the way, the author discusses the investigating duo he created, his brush with cinema success and the best writing advice he’s heard
Radio: An upbeat air on his London-based show contrasts with RTÉ’s continuing struggles
The writer takes over the laureateship from author Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín, Alan Hollinghurst, Olivia Laing Seán Hewitt and more reflect on White’s writing, sexual freedom and humour
Being a poet was all consuming for him. His main pursuit in life, it defined his everyday interactions
Women priests: The Catholic Church is like a farmer complaining of a poor crop while ploughing only one depleted field and leaving the rest fallow
Living abroad helped me embrace my heritage and realise just how cultured we are
Faber’s new editions come with excellent introductions by Colm Tóibín, Claire-Louise Bennett and Eimear McBride
BogSkin, an exhibition by the Royal Hibernian Academy, prods us by showing that Ireland’s bogs aren’t simply repositories for our collective unconsciousness, they are precious sustainers of life and, in a hugely destructive inflection of past habits, we are sacrificing them
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts to select the best Irish books of the years 2000-2025. Here’s how we did it
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts – authors, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers and journalists – to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of the years 2000-2025
The author of Sweat on her plan to save Earth, her least favourite quote, and Colm Tóibín’s shapely writing
Voice actor Aoife McMahon, producer Roy McMillan and audio engineer Noel Storey reveal some of their tricks
Radio: The veteran presenter grows ever more outraged by imaginary injustices as he highlights potential shortcomings of the new builders’ register
Irish authors Paul Lynch, Colin Barrett, John Boyne, Sinéad Gleeson and Nuala O’Connor also among 71 nominees for €100,000 fiction prize
Whether a powerful meditation or a gripping detective story, a classic doesn’t have to be 500 pages long
On James Baldwin by Colm Tóibín; On the Edge by Nate Silver; The Magic of an Irish Rainforest by Eoghan Daltun; Last Night by Sven Popović, and more
Plus: Keith Duffy in a falling out over knees, Enda Kenny artfully backs a winner, and it turns out RTÉ and Sinn Féin can feel at home with each other after all
The Irish Times columnist has made a new documentary about his life for RTÉ. Here he looks back on a career that he began as the Michelangelo of Tipp-Ex
Plus: no sign of the next laureate for fiction; the less-than-diverse membership of Aosdána; and Niall Blaney’s poor attendance record
The Bulgarian author on the dangers of nostalgia, his 2023 Booker-winning novel Time Shelter, and Irish writers he admires
Sally Rooney, Graham Norton, Johnny Sexton, Jane Casey and Paul Howard also among winners at this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards
Winners of the 19th year of the An Post book awards will be announced at a ceremony in December
Mary Lavin Place links Dublin’s Lad Lane – where the author and short story writer lived – to newly restored Wilton Park
Durcan’s poems are risk-taking explorations of where tragedy and comedy meet in contemporary Ireland. A selection of his finest work is gathered in a book
Normal People author’s title sold almost 12,000 copies in first five days on market
Filipino cuisine is taking over in food while romance tropes such as #grumpysunshine dominate BookTok
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
Laois home of late Irish Times literary editor Caroline Walsh and writer and professor James Ryan
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
Novel picks up the story 20 years later, with a stranger delivering some surprising news
The writer on finding the confidence to trace the journey of his character Eilis in follow-up novel Long Island
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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