Dublin Literary Award 2024: Solenoid, by Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu, wins €100,000 prize
Solenoid, published by Deep Vellum, is the first book translated from Romanian to win the award
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Sebastian Barry and Emma Donoghue shortlisted for Dublin Literary Award 2024
Unusually varied list also includes Jonathan Escoffery’s debut, If I Survive You
Distant Summers: Remembering Philip Casey - A very fond farewell to the poet and novelist
Paula Meehan, Sebastian Barry, Colm Tóibín and others share fond memories of the writer
Dublin Literary Award longlist: four Irish in running but Demon Copperhead leads field
Sebastian Barry, Joseph O’Connor, Claire Kilroy and Emma Donoghue up for €100,000 prize
Irish fiction 2008-2023: Flourishing scene emerges from period of upheaval
Ireland has borne witness to one of the most significant periods in its modern literary history, a winning-streak that shows no sign of abating
Sebastian Barry: ‘I have the sort of odd brain that is always creeping up on a new book’
Irish author on prizes, translations and being the second Laureate of Irish Fiction
The Booker Prize boost: ‘It certainly changed the way people look at me’
Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright and Irish booksellers on the real difference the prestigious award makes as two Irish writers hit shortlist
‘Miracle’ of Irish literature celebrated as four Booker prize nominees gather in Dublin
Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray give selection of readings in city centre
Booker Prize 2023: Four Irish writers make this year’s longlist
Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray join nine other authors in the running for the literary award
The best books of 2023 so far: Anne Enright, Joseph O’Connor, Liz Nugent, Colm Tóibín and more have their say
We round up some opinions on the finest reads this year which you might think worth bringing on holidays with you
20 great audiobooks to get stuck into this summer, from recent award-winners to all-time classics
Whether you’re crammed on a bus on the way to work or lounging with a cocktail by the pool, audiobooks are a perfect way to transport you to another place
Claire Kilroy: ‘I haven’t met one mother who didn’t talk about failure’
The novelist talks about about the release of her first novel in more than a decade, on the struggles of motherhood that had stopped her from writing for so long
Sebastian Barry on his mother Joan O’Hara’s Sligo upbringing: ‘It was like tar on her shoes’
Television: The actor was ‘fettered’ by self-absorption, according to Barry, whose father apparently regarded philandering as his mission in life
Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry: A dark but warm book of memory, lyricism and death
Sebastian Barry uses a cocoon of language to magical effect in a tale full of the warnings of mortality
RL Stine has sold 400 million books: ‘And people say kids don’t read’
The Goosebumps author on his rules for writing and the new Fear Street films on Netflix
The best books of 2021 so far: Novels, memoirs, short stories and more
Authors and critics choose the books that have moved and impressed them this year
Jennifer O’Connell: Margaret Atwood is not the biggest threat to your children’s wellbeing
Yes, schools should be a safe place, as the callers to Liveline insisted. But safe does not mean sanitised
Open the door to an aristocratic past in this €2.45m Monkstown terrace
Vast and handsome house built in 1840 was home to Lady Eliza Deane among others
The Crown, season 4: Gillian Anderson takes up the Margaret Thatcher challenge
She is the latest of many actors to wrestle with the blue suit and tortured vowels
ClassicsNow festival set to bring ancient Greece and Rome to life
Theatre, dance and literature events can all be enjoyed online
‘Always be beautiful. Always be dynamic. Always be welcoming’
A Japanese mentor helped to inspire Conor Hanratty’s online short play War Paint
The world is indeed beautiful: Sebastian Barry, Gavin Friday and others on mental health
Men’s health charity Movember’s Conversation Piece campaign paired artists, writers and musicians to talk about mental health and create a piece of art
Here’s to Ireland’s unofficial ambassadors flying flags around the world
Celebrating the men and women flying flags for Ireland from Auckland to Rockland, Paris to Belgrade
Big spending election promises and Dublin hotel room taxes
Seen and heard: Reports of multimillion euro data centres for Drogheda and Arklow
Fintan O'Toole: Why do we fear the ghosts of dead policemen?
Are Ireland’s wars truly over? For some people, there is still a hierarchy of victims
Don’t judge a book by its coverage
Donald Clarke: BBC’s ‘novels that shaped our world’ list is terrible in a very particular way
The extraordinary genius of Donal McCann on stage
Derek O’Connor remembers the actor, who was a giant of Irish theatre
Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope actor Danika McGuigan dies aged 33
The daughter of boxer Barry McGuigan had been ill with cancer
Liz Nugent: ‘I’m proud that I got published in a tough time for the industry’
Life Lessons: ‘Sebastian Barry told me that to improve as a writer, I must do it every day’
Karl Shiels: Maybe because he had been an electrician he was aware of the capacity to shock
A passionate advocate for originality, he knew that theatre could be electrifying
Miriam Lord: Sinn Féin’s answer to St Francis of Assisi canvasses in Waterford
Heartwarming tale of a starling, a hedgehog, a badger and the local election candidate
Irish children’s books enjoying a new ‘golden age’
Demand for children’s literature has skyrocketed following success of likes of Colfer and Shan
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The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
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