Dermot Healy

Ahead of this year’s Dublin Book Festival, we ask some of the participating authors to tell us the stories behind the books in their personal collections

Brighton bomber Patrick Magee wrote his PhD thesis while in jail on the portrayal of republicans in fiction. As a novel about the bombing is published, he explains his views

To mark the publication of Dermot Healy’s Collected Short Stories and Fighting with Shadows, the editors, Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper, offer reflections on a writer’s writer

Published: March 3rd, 1989. Photograph by Paddy Whelan

Review: ‘Where I Am’, ‘Horizon: OCD – A Monster in My Mind’, ‘The Late Review’

As part of ILF Dublin, Timothy O’Grady presents Only Himself, a star-studded celebration of Dermot Healy on May 24th. This essay is from Dermot Healy: Writing the Sky, to be published by Dalkey Archive Press

New plaques celebrating Yeats, ‘The Kasbah’ and Ó Conaire to be unveiled in Galway city

Sara Baume and Colm Tóibín will also take part in this year’s literary event in Galway

The page founded by David Marcus, which launched the careers of many of our best known writers, has found a new home

First in new discussion series hosted by an Irish journalist in London will feature public interview with historian Roy Foster

Writer laid to rest yesterday in the company of poets and artists, musicians and singers, a president and, above all, his neighbours

‘A poet of oceanic forlorness in all his writings’

In his most famous work, A Goat’s Song, he excelled himself in revealing the Irish male as the dreamer, the broken thing that a man becomes when the women have gone away

He is as important a social commentator as John McGahern and John B Keane

Dermot Healy once remarked that the people with the most beautiful eyes in the world often live by the ocean, which is certainly true for Belmullet

While Sligo is awash with creative types, it’s also a hot spot for surfing royalty

Growing up in Co Mayo helped Colin Barrett shape wild visual narratives written in local voices

Priest says Bellaghy honoured that Heaney had chosen to be interred in his home town