We’re very excited this week for the book charts. Not only is Sam Blake’s Your Every Move still at no. 1 in Original Fiction, ...
Now in its 19th year, the An Post Irish Book Awards celebrate and promote Irish writing to the widest range of readers possible. Each year, the An Post Irish Book Awards bring together a vast ...
An award-winning Irish author chronicled her writing process and read excerpts from her past and current work at a Georgetown University event Sept. 29. Sinéad Gleeson showcased the relevance of Irish ...
Over the next month, Professor Mary Burke has planned a “Festival of Irish Women’s Writing,” consisting of weekly events in her ENGL 3122 course (Irish Literature in English since 1939). The event ...
Photo by Diogo Palhais on Unsplash. “Other Irish writers he knows about are interested in Ireland. He has tried to read them… The folktales, the myths, the faeries, the banshee…All that dusty old ...
Domestic violence against women was a dominant theme in three top prizes at this year’s Irish Book Awards held in Dublin’s Convention Centre on Thursday evening and now in their 20th year. Roisín ...
Booker Prize winner David Szalay talks to Niamh Donnelly about the life-changing success and the themes and style of his novel, Flesh. Danish writer Solvej Balle tells Rónán Hession about her epic ...
But to the great credit of the nation, in the last decade, Irish writing has finally been allowed to be what Yeats always declared it should be: “less preoccupied by imposing its own borders and ...