Impac winner Jon McGregor is big draw on European Literature NightMacGill Summer School and West Cork Literary Festival newsFri May 09 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 02 2014 - 01:27
We need to talk about ShakespeareUCD and Abbey Theatre host free lecture series on the BardThu May 01 2014 - 01:36
Tales of the afterlife and living hellsInsightful observations in impressive collectionSat Apr 19 2014 - 01:00
'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
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 07 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 04 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
Rare journey of alternate paths2013 Costa Novel Award winner is sharp, funny, intricate, unorthodox and very gratifyingSat Mar 15 2014 - 01:00
Ebooks: As length’s no longer an issue, how about some novella thinking?Publishers often trial new writers and experimental material in digital format. Ebooks can then be reborn as paper versions if demand is high enoughSat Feb 22 2014 - 01:00
Book world could be your oyster with unlimited-access servicesEbook subscription sites offer members the chance to have within their possession, if only ephemerally, more books than they could ever imagine – and all at the same timeSat Jan 25 2014 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryA COUPLE of months late for the World Poker Series, I arrived in Las Vegas on a hot afternoon a while back, confident that previous…Tue Nov 17 2009 - 00:00
