New Fiction: Loneliness and the Irish short storyMartin Malone’s latest collection tackles difficult subjects, with mixed resultsSat Sep 13 2014 - 01:00
New Fiction: Buried narratives inspired by the story of the DisappearedMary O’Donnell’s latest novel explores the legacy of Northern Ireland’s ‘Disappeared’Sat Aug 30 2014 - 01:00
New Fiction: portrait of a passionate Eileen GrayPatricia O’Reilly’s fifth novel brings colour to a real-life Irish designerSat Aug 23 2014 - 01:00
Write on, sister: 20 great books by womenThe Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction last week announced a list of the top 20 most influential books written by women. We continue our series on female authors, looking at the books as voted for by the public.Mon Aug 18 2014 - 12:20
New Fiction: Fast-paced comedy with a serious sideTravels across Europe in an Ikea wardrobe set up Romain Puértolas’s entertaining debutSat Aug 16 2014 - 01:00
10 books to read in your first semesterWith the Leaving Cert results out this week, here’s a literary taster of what to expect at third levelThu Aug 14 2014 - 18:00
What would Beckett say?After the weekend’s Happy Days International Beckett festival in Enniskillen, we bring you some quotes from the master to fill the existential voidTue Aug 12 2014 - 00:00
New Fiction: Love and loss in an age of genocideWar-torn Armenia proves an interesting backdrop for Irish debutSat Aug 9 2014 - 01:00
Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat!After a long week, we’re letting off some steam with 10 of our favourite Shakespeare swears. Use at your discretion, and add your own in the comments boxFri Aug 1 2014 - 11:50
Friendship in a world before FacebookThe philosopher AC Grayling gives friendship down through the ages the serious treatmentThu Jul 31 2014 - 01:00
Poetic, poignant and funny: The Closet of Savage MementosReview: Nuala Ní Chonchúir’s second novel doesn’t flinch when tackling the dark truths of human behaviourSat Jul 26 2014 - 01:17
What to read on holiday in . . . IrelandThe final part in our summer reading series recommends 10 books for those staying at home this summerTue Jul 15 2014 - 19:20
Ebooks: What do Mark Twain and ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ have in common?‘New ways’ of publishing have roots in subscription services that are centuries oldMon Jul 14 2014 - 10:58
War and peace: 10 for the TwelfthOn the eve of the peak of Northern Ireland’s marching season, we review titles that explore the legacy of the TroublesFri Jul 11 2014 - 17:48
Dark tales hit the target: Waiting for the BulletThe darkness at the heart of the highly readable debut collection of stories by the Hennessy winner Madeleine D’Arcy rings trueSat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00
Test your knowledge of ‘Dubliners’With centenary celebrations under way for James Joyce’s seminal short story collection, see if you can match the 15 opening lines to their correct titlesMon Jun 16 2014 - 01:00
What to read on holiday in Spain, Brazil and AustraliaThe second in our summer reading series recommends what books to packSun Jun 15 2014 - 01:00
Ebooks: Big summer reads add their weight to the digital causeTaking your ereader to the beach will free you from sandy pages, smudges, sore wrists and one-arm sunburnSat Jun 14 2014 - 01:00
New anthologies from Fighting WordsPrimary and secondary school children inspired to create stories by visiting National GalleryThu Jun 12 2014 - 12:07
What to read on holiday in the US, France and GermanyIn the first of a series, we recommend some destination-specific titles for summer trips abroad, with help from our correspondentsSun Jun 8 2014 - 01:00
Class effort for debut young adult novelDurrow headmaster and sixth-class pupils combine to write and publish adventure storyFri Jun 6 2014 - 10:43
A new kind of thriller for John O’Shea and Joey O’BrienSoccer stars read a good game for literacy projectTue May 27 2014 - 01:00
The Irish take on ShakespeareFrom the campus to the Peacock, all the world’s a stage for lecture series on the BardFri May 23 2014 - 14:04
Orwellian ebooks may be revealing more than we realiseAlthough the Kindle highlights function is publicly anonymous, there are still serious privacy concerns as it allows Amazon to track and store the reading statistics of customersSat May 17 2014 - 01:00
What a character: writers in fictionWith the Dublin Writers Festival kicking off this week, here are 10 great books with writers as their subjectFri May 16 2014 - 01:00
Eat your wordsWith the Ballymaloe Literary Festival taking place this weekend, here are 20 literary quotations to whet the appetiteThu May 15 2014 - 15:22
Literary twitterati: from Martello towers to hell and backOur weekly round-up of tweets from the book world.Wed May 14 2014 - 14:15
How novel: books about books and the joy of readingBooks goes meta-fictional and multi-story with our list of mega tales about telling talesTue May 13 2014 - 01:19
Oscar was Wilde about booksWith ‘The Ideal Husband’ currently playing at Dublin’s Gate Theatre, we’ve put together 10 literary quotes from its authorMon May 12 2014 - 15:02
Impac winner Jon McGregor is big draw on European Literature NightMacGill Summer School and West Cork Literary Festival newsFri May 9 2014 - 15:01
Mad men and women in fictionFrom Jane Eyre’s madwoman in the attic to Captain Ahab in Moby Dick and Francie in The Butcher Boy, madness is a recurring and compelling theme in literatureFri May 2 2014 - 01:27
We need to talk about ShakespeareUCD and Abbey Theatre host free lecture series on the BardThu May 1 2014 - 01:36
'War and Peace' at 600 words a minute anyone?Technology provided by Spritz is aiming to help readers make more of their limited timeSat Apr 19 2014 - 01:00
Tales of the afterlife and living hellsInsightful observations in impressive collectionSat Apr 19 2014 - 01:00
Literary Twitterati: from The Goldfinch hotel to The Strand on a trainOur weekly round-up of tweets from the book world.Wed Apr 16 2014 - 15:14
Putting war into wordsShortlisted this week for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, Audrey Magee’s ‘The Undertaking’ has the second World War as its backdrop. Here’s a selection of our favourite literary quotations on warThu Apr 10 2014 - 09:36
Fanimal fictionAdapted from the children’s book by Michael Morpurgo, ‘War Horse’ is currently showing in Dublin’s Bord Gais Energy Theatre. Here are 10 of our favourite literary quotes inspired by animalsMon Apr 7 2014 - 01:00
Stranger than fiction: when crime captures the imaginationNicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroadFri Apr 4 2014 - 01:00
Your favourite opening lines in literatureAfter a huge response to our feature on great opening lines, we’ve assembled our favourite openers posted by readersFri Mar 28 2014 - 01:00
Kerry Babies tribunal inspires award-winning debutAnn Lovett case another source for Nicola White’s ‘In The Rosary Garden’Thu Mar 27 2014 - 11:26
Literary Twitterati: Selina Guinness turned inside outOur weekly round-up of recent literary happenings on TwitterMon Mar 24 2014 - 00:01
Ebooks: The door opens for new writers to follow Roddy Doyle’s leadSelf-publishing worked for the Dubliner, who released his first novel, ‘The Commitments’, himself. Now, with the likes of Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing and CreateSpace ventures, it can work for lots more peopleSat Mar 22 2014 - 01:00
Ten great opening lines in literatureThese are some of our favourite opening lines - could you write one of your own? Post it in the comment box below. We might even find a suitable prize for the best or funniestFri Mar 21 2014 - 00:01
What sort of Shakespearean villain are you?‘That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.’ Take our personality test and find out which Shakespearean swine you most resembleWed Mar 19 2014 - 01:00
A series of unsaintly PatricksWith the week that’s in it, read up on the literary characters who take their name, if not their morals, from our patron saintTue Mar 18 2014 - 15:33