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

Forget the Wild Atlantic Way: here are the Northern Literary Lands

Seán Doran and Liam Browne want people in the Border counties to celebrate their shared literary heritge

Hammy Joe Duffy would make a panto dame blush

Radio Review: The RTÉ presenter gets fully into character for an Easter special, before showing his strengths on more familiar ground

President Higgins joins Irish writers at Havana Book Fair

Joseph O’Connor’s ‘Star of the Sea’ is the first Irish novel since ‘Ulysses’ published in Cuba

Higgins meets Raúl Castro as landmark Cuban visit begins

Human rights, LGBT rights and civil society discussed between two leaders

Augustinian retreat in Rathfarnham bought for €2.85m

Georgian mansion Orlagh on 100 acres to be used as medical centre or hospitality facility

Dublin Book Festival: eight to see this weekend

The 10th annual Dublin Book Festival takes place this weekend, hosting workshops, walks, talks and readings by some of Ireland’s prominent writers. Here are some of the must-sees

The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney to be made into TV series

Galway author’s debut won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and Desmond Elliott Prize earlier this year. Sequel is to be published next April

The writing group: the secret weapon for unlocking your inner novel

One west Cork writing group has had 108 publications. So why is group think so successful when it comes to literature?

‘Go easy on me – this was my first attempt at prose, never mind a short story’

Paul McVeigh describes the strange sensation of rereading his first adult short story and recalls how it evolved into his novel ‘The Good Son’, July’s ‘Irish Times’ Book Club choice

Lisa McInerney wins £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize

Author hailed as ‘major literary figure’ as debut novel The Glorious Heresies wins major award a fortnight after it won £30,000 Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction

So what’s hot and what’s not this week?

We’re are loving the Dublin Pizza Company this week, but not so keen on invasive wearables

Lisa McInerney wins Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction

Irish author claims prestigious award for her debut novel ‘The Glorious Heresies’

Augustinians to sell Orlagh retreat in Rathfarnham for €2.5 million

Georgian mansion on about 100 acres has potential as a hotel or conference centre

Shakespeare and me: Irish writers on the Bard's best bits

Some admirers celebrate the playwright’s work on the 400th anniversary of his death

Nothing lost in translation on Man Booker International list

High class shortlist of six shows strength of work published in English translation

International Dublin Literary Award shortlist in review

‘Jenny Erpenbeck should become the prize’s first German winner with ‘The End of Days’’

Cúirt; Fish Short Story winners; Gavin Corbett at TCD; Cork World Book Fest

Dublin Shakespeare Society; Kevin Curran reading; All-Ireland Poetry Day; Trinity talk on Derry authors; hunger strike talk at UCD

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

Literary listings: Irish head for Edinburgh, and Library Voices at Dun Laoghaire

Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books

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