À la belle étoile: the odyssey of Jeanne Baré has been nominated for the Forward Prize. It is available from the Salmon ...

The Irish Writers Centre has announced the 34 talented writers chosen for its prestigious National Mentoring Programme 2025.

We have lots of recent titles in the Irish books bestseller lists this week with new favourites becoming apparent as everyone starts stocking up on their summer reading. One of these is this week’s ...

The Eavan Boland Award returns for 2025, inviting early-career poets based in the UK and mid-career poets based in Ireland to ...

Pub Quiz in aid of Mullingar Literary Festival, at Berty's Bar, Annebrook Hotel, Millingar. All support appreciated.

When Fiction Reveals the Deepest Truths: Nick Berg on why he ‘didn’t write Shadows of Tehran as a traditional memoir . . .

In Understorey, artist and writer Anna Chapman Parker records in prose and stunning line drawings a year spent looking ...

Deborah O’Connor’s fourth book is a page-turner from start to finish. With a lightness of touch, she opens her story with ...

Why Your Best Words Might Come Before Breakfast. The best time to write might not be when you’re feeling cosy and fed.

Author TJ Murphy on his evolution as a writer and the publication of Story of Athrow: Demon War . . .The story of my writing ...

When I attended my first funeral at age six, the atmosphere and calmness of death was so appealing to me as a child in the ...