Martin Doyle

Martin Doyle

Books Editor

Martin Doyle is Books Editor of The Irish Times.

Sturgeon and O’Hagan to pick 2026 Irish Novel of the Year

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

Nicola Pierce: ‘I started to write Great Irish Wives without any idea I would be a widow by the time it went to print’

The author on losing her husband, writing two books about the Titanic, and her love of Jo March

German author researching climate change wins Moth Nature Writing Prize 2025

Guardian country diarist Mark Cocker judges novel excerpt winner of prize worth €1,000 and a week at Moth’s Irish writing retreat

Joseph O’Connor wins Irish Book of the Year 2025 with The Ghosts of Rome

Sequel to My Father's House is the second in the Escape Line trilogy, inspired by the true story of Fr Hugh O’Flaherty

Mary Beard to chair Booker Prize jury

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages and a wrap of the latest news

Gráinne O’Brien: ‘I was anxious about things most authors wouldn’t even dream could happen’

Debut author and bookseller on her award-winning novel, Solo, which is written in verse

Irish Writers Centre novel winners revealed

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

Tom Paulin wins PEN Heaney Prize for Namanlagh

Poet honoured for his 10th collection, his firs tin more than 10 years

Caroline Grace-Cassidy on fate: ‘Let’s all believe that our World Cup place is meant to be’

The author on her new Christmas novel; her hopes of it becoming a Hallmark movie; and her belief in fate

Books of the year 2025: Authors and critics pick their favourites

Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices

Kate O’Brien Award now worth £5,000

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and a preview of tomorrow’s pages

Irish Book Awards 2025: Roisín O’Donnell, Claire Gleeson and Manchán Magan among winners

Jacqueline Connolly, Andrew Porter, Cecelia Ahern, Andrea Mara, Elaine Feeney, Joseph O’Connor and Michael D Higgins also honoured

Annemarie Ní Churreáin: ‘There’s a deep respect embedded in Gaeltacht culture for troublemakers’

Poet reflects on how here upbringing has shaped her works, including her latest collection Hymn to All the Restless Girls

Claire Power is new Poetry Ireland head

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of Saturday’s pages

Hugo Hamilton: ‘I love speaking Irish. It places me in a less aggressive country full of musical links to an ancient past’

The author on his new novel, Conversation with the Sea; his German heritage; and how Germany is in denial about Gaza

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