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ILFD 2025 programme revealed

Books newsletter: Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s French award; Hubert Butler Essay Prize; Ewart-Biggs Prize; Strokestown poetry shortlist; Global Book Crawl; preview of tomorrow’s pages

Kelly McCaughrain on Carnegie Medal shortlist

Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s pages; Bridge Books wins; Franco-Irish Literary Festival; George Moore conference; One Dublin One Book; Belfast Book Festival; Flighty Creatures; MoLI-PWC tie-in

Irish writers in for British Book Awards

Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s pages; Nero Gold Prize; book deals for Ana Kinsella, Edie May Hand and Ruth Ennis; radio specials; Sheila Armstrong nominated; IWC events; President’s gifts

Pollard poetry prize shortlist revealed

Books newsletter: Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; Irish Writers Centre events; ACIS award for Arlen House; Cló Iar-Chonnacht and Cúirt turn 40; Seachtain na Gaeilge

Four Irish writers on Carnegie longlists

Books newsletter: screen deals; UL Creative Writing Festival; Ennis Book Club Festival; Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction; ILF Dublin agent dates

University writers in residence unveiled

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Dylan Thomas Prize; Classics Now; The Last Boy; Mick Herron award; Susan Cahill longlisted; Working-Class Writers’ Prize; Laureate na nÓg mentoring

Franco-Irish literary award shortlist revealed

Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s pages; Yeats Winter School; Strokestown International Poetry Competition

Sebastian Barry is named a Chevalier in France’s Ordre des Arts et Lettres

Books newsletter: Kavanagh fellowships; poets on RTÉ; cultural boycott of Israel; BBC story award judges; a preview of Saturday’s pages

Susannah Dickey’s ISDAL wins PEN Heaney Prize

Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s pages; Nollaig na mBan; Pavilion shows; Polari Prizes; RSL Jerwood Poetry Awards; Dingle Lit Short Story competition

Butter by Asako Yuzuki is Waterstones Book of the Year

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Profiles launch and show; John Calder Prize; Bookselling Ireland promotion

Colm Tóibín’s Long Island is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year

Books newsletter: A preview of Saturday’s pages; Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford Prize; Irish translator wins Stephen Spender Prize; MS Readathon; (S)worn State(s) launch at MoLI; Never Too Late Award; Dublin Literary Award judges; Limerick Writers’ Centre launch; Rory Brennan dies

Ella Sloane wins Sarah Cecilia Harrison Prize

Books newsletter: Reading campaign for Dublin teenagers; Bookselling Ireland report; preview of Saturday’s pages

Vona Groarke wins 2024 Michel Déon Prize

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; PEN Heaney Prize and Waterstones Book of the Year shortlists; Writers in the Attic; Robert Fisk archive at TCD; Little Island’s Carnegie success

Luke Morgan wins Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award

Books newsletter: preview of Saturday’s pages; Caroline Madden book deal; Nicola Rose O’Hara film deal; John McGahern Prize deadline

A tribute to Nell McCafferty

Books newsletter: Irish Writers’ Weekend in London; Kit de Waal to judge Women’s Prize for Fiction; Oscar Wilde exhibition; Korean prize for Anna Burns

Circling The Square hits the spot

Books newsletter: Forward prizes; Baillie Gifford shortlist; Claire Keegan wins Lenz Prize; Bookshop of the Year; Writer of Courage 2024; Tanya Sweeney book deal; Leaves Festival; Macavity Awards

Anne Haverty to give Stinging Fly annual lecture

Books newsletter: Tomorrow’s pages; Irish judges for Nero awards; Rooney Writer Fellow; ISLA, Bram Stoker, IMRAM and Murder One festivals; Irish Book Week; Publishers for Palestine

Freyja Hellebust wins Gerald Griffin Competition

Books newsletter: Saturday’s pages; Belfast International Arts Festival; Red Line Book Festival; TS Eliot lecture; Allingham Festival; Oisín Fagan book deal; Semaus Heaney fellows; In Their Shoes podcast

Children’s Books Ireland reading guide launched

Books newsletter: Saturday’s pages previewed; Wendy Erskine, Fíona Scarlett, Seán Farrell book deals; TCD arts festival; Italian book festival; Anne Enright event; Dayton Literary Peace Prize; MoLI seeks new director

Lucy Caldwell up for BBC short story award

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

Eimear McBride returns with new novel

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

Joseph O’Connor headlines Letters for Life

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

Mags McLoughlin appointed new head of Irish Writers Centre

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

Gillian Anderson to star in Channel 4 film of Louise Kennedy’s Trespasses

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

Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones prize

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

Vona Groake and Martina Evans honoured

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

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