Anne Enright: ‘I’m in a lull. I’m trying to recalibrate after a long decade of elder care’
Anne Enright’s time looking after her parents has given the Booker winner an opportunity to take stock, both personally and creatively
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John Banville: ‘You cannot censor me. They would try it now with all this wokeist nonsense’
The author on his latest novel, Venetian Vespers, how Graham Greene treated him ‘very badly’, and his support for Israelis
Colm Tóibín: ‘I am much less sociable now, as I don’t drink any more’
For the author of A Long Winter and Ship in Full Sail, inspiration often comes subliminally. But he has also brought his inner self to the surface through therapy
John McGahern Book Prize shortlist revealed
Novels by Ferdia Lennon, Alan Murrin, Sinéad Gleeson and Anna Fitzgerald selected
Nadine O’Regan: An only child is a lonely child? We’re sure about our decision not to try again
No matter what people say, there are many ways to find ties that bind
Cúirt literature festival at 40: ‘There is a sense of an Irish writing culture exploding around the world’
When I was an impoverished student sustained by Pot Noodles, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature introduced me to literature I would not have encountered otherwise
Books: Vote for the best Irish fiction of the 21st century
Our experts have ranked the best Irish novels and story collections published since 2000. Now it is your turn
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: how we made the list and what it says about the state of Irish fiction
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
As it turns 100, meet the most reliable New Yorker you’ll ever encounter
The illustrious magazine remains rooted in the principles and traditions of print journalism. There is surely a lesson there
Philip King: ‘I have five daughters, three of them triplets, so as John McGahern would have it, I’m amongst women’
The Scullion musician and Other Voices music series cofounder on his upbringing, the importance of music in his life, and why the arts matter
Paul Williams: ‘Organised crime could not thrive without the connivance of so-called law-abiding society’
The crime writer and journalist has penned a personal account of his career covering the underworld, and he describes it as the most difficult of them all to write
The Irish Times view on the arts in 2024: a year of high achievement
The cross-fertilisation between Ireland’s literary culture and its other artforms was particularly significant
I was suffering from burnout - then I decided to farm 12 sheep. I emerged a new person
Award-winning author and film producer John Connell says he now sees that art is not something reserved just for the city
That They May Face the Rising Sun is an exercise in memory and a reminder to cherish the natural world
Philip King believes the film may have touched people 'because everything is so virtual, augmented and artificial now, whereas this is tactile, human, visceral'
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