Irish satire thriving in competitive world of fake newsFrom Waterford Whispers to Ulster Fry, Irish satirical websites are proving that you can in fact make it upWed Dec 21 2016 - 12:00
A helping hand across the border for writersWriters in the North want more information and better networks, a Belfast meeting of the Words Ireland Writers Series was toldMon Dec 12 2016 - 15:56
The Little Book Of Hygge review: A guide to happinessMeik Wiking explains it’s not all about blankets – family and friends play a role, tooSat Dec 10 2016 - 06:00
Is making a living just from writing books a literary fiction?Most recent survey of Irish authors’ incomes found more than half earned less than €5,000 a year from their writingMon Dec 05 2016 - 12:00
‘People have books turned down because their social media profile isn’t big enough’Writing Lives Series: From festival appearances to school visits to being active on social media, writers today are almost expected to be public figuresFri Oct 28 2016 - 07:32
Balancing the books: how to survive as a writer in Ireland todayThe Irish Times Writing Lives Series: The hope is that by enabling writers to share their experiences, it will spark a national debate on literature resourcing and fundingFri Oct 21 2016 - 11:45
Related Lives by Dave Duggan review: a patchwork of family memoriesThe author of the Oscar-nominated short film, Dance Lexie Dance, has created an imagined memoir of his Waterford familyTue Oct 18 2016 - 13:10
Seamus Heaney HomePlace opens: son moved by voyage round his fatherChristopher Heaney: ‘We were all delighted with it. It’s been extremely sensitively done, and what’s important is that at the core of it is the work, the poems’Thu Sept 29 2016 - 15:45
What’s the first rule of book club? Wine, of course, but there are othersThe Ennis Book Club Festival is 10 years old. Freya McClements talks to its founders and other book clubs about what goes on between the coversThu Aug 25 2016 - 15:30
The censors and the ‘Derry Journal’ – An Irishwoman’s Diary on the newspaper banned on both sides of the BorderSat Aug 20 2016 - 01:01
When Tony Doherty was 9, his father Paddy was killed on Bloody SundayA happy childhood in Derry, where he had the freedom of the city, came to be defined by the Troubles. His mother took the soldiers sandwiches at first but then came Bloody SundayThu Aug 18 2016 - 15:17
Beyond the Silence by Julieann Campbell review: women’s voices on the TroublesUntold stories are reclaimed through the powerful testimony of wives, mothers, sistersSat Jun 04 2016 - 02:00
Review: Love + Hate: Stories and Essays by Hanif KureishiA collection of stories and essays that explore complex relationship between love and hateSat Apr 02 2016 - 00:37
Michael Bradley of the Undertones: still kicking after all these yearsFreya McClements interviews Michael Bradley, whose Teenage Kicks: My Life as an Undertone reads like a memoir of youth we all wish we had had, as told by a best friendThu Mar 10 2016 - 07:00
The Seamus Heaney Centre in Bellaghy: a barracks turns into a beacon of hopeThe visitor centre, due to open next summer, is fast taking shape. A year after the first sod was turned on what was an RUC station, Freya McClements gets a sneak previewFri Dec 18 2015 - 12:14
‘Your ticket to a new world’: a love letter to the public libraryFreya McClements had 16 tickets as a child for a library that’s just been listed. She finds out how libraries have evolved and talks to fellow fan, Bookworm author Patricia CraigWed Dec 09 2015 - 12:32
‘Music’s sexy, dance is sexy, not books’: how funding cuts hit North’s publishersGuildhall Press and Blackstaff Press have had to adjust after losing Arts Council grants but at the grassroots things are flourishing with a host of new print and online titlesThu Nov 19 2015 - 11:15
Generation by Paula McGrath review: The ties that bind emigrant familiesFor McGrath, the modern family is a fragmented entity: not one, but two, husbands leave their wives for pregnant girlfriends. The ties that endure are between generationsSat Sept 26 2015 - 00:15
Review: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, By Haruki MurakamiSat Sept 19 2015 - 00:17
Fanny & Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England, by Neil McKennaPaperback reviewSat May 31 2014 - 01:00
Navel Gazing: One Woman’s Quest for a Size Normal, By Anne H PutnamPaperback reviewSat Mar 08 2014 - 01:00
Beacons: Stories for Our Not So Distant Future, edited by Gregory NormintonPaperback reviewSat Apr 06 2013 - 06:00
