Glenn Patterson is founding patron of Fighting Words NI and director of the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast

From early school leaver to author: Djamel White’s life was changed forever when Roddy Doyle’s creative writing organisation gave him encouragement

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

March 29th-April 4th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Dublin, Written in Our Hearts, which marks 20 years of One Dublin, One Book, features Anne Enright, Roddy Doyle, Belinda McKeon, Paula Meehan and Kevin Barry

While Johnston was initially associated with the Big House literary tradition, she was above all a minutely observant chronicler of family dysfunction in Ireland

The author approaches the subject with skill and sensitivity

John Boyne, Edel Coffey, Ferdia Lennon, Sarah Gilmartin and a dozen other authors and critics on books that had a profound emotional effect on them

Novelists Ayobami Adebayo and Kiley Reid join critic Chris Power to decide prestigious prizewinner

What’s Next For?: TKB, whose new play, It’s Always Your Bleedin’ Own, completes his St Mary’s Mansions trilogy, on the evolution of Ireland’s capital

This comprehensive and wonderfully written book serves to remind us of how much outstanding Irish theatre has been produced in the past quarter-century

Even at a time of much cross-fertilisation between the literary and journalistic worlds, it was a brave and radical idea to run a regular creative-writing page in a daily newspaper. In pursuing this, David Marcus nurtured many young talents

November 2nd-8th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Winners of the 19th year of the An Post book awards will be announced at a ceremony in December

Radio: RTÉ Radio 1 host sounds like neither the satirical impressionist he is nor the chatshow host he has become. Instead he resembles a stand-up comic flailing around for quick laughs

Misogyny is an insidious virus running through Doyle’s latest Paula Spencer novel, as the Covid pandemic frames the plot

The author reflects on returning to Paula Spencer for his 13th novel, intergenerational trauma, and anti-immigration sentiment in Ireland

Latest iteration of the world’s first commuter railway set to be transformed by new fleet

Actor Tierra Porter came to Ireland in 2019 from Georgia, in the US. Her expectations were wildly different from the reality of living in Dublin

Animation of Roddy Doyle’s children’s book of same name leans into writer’s reliable ear for the vernacular