Dublin Literary Award 2025: Seven Irish authors on longlist for €100,000 prize
Irish authors Paul Lynch, Colin Barrett, John Boyne, Sinéad Gleeson and Nuala O’Connor also among 71 nominees for €100,000 fiction prize
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Irish author Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses wins Nero debut fiction prize
Nero Book Awards judges praise novel for ‘sheer quality of its writing ... brilliant dialogue ... characters ... wit and humour’
Ferdia Lennon wins Wodehouse Prize and is one of several Irish authors on Nero Awards shortlists
Colin Barrett, Donal Ryan and London-Irish writer Orlaine McDonald make fiction shortlists
Booker Prize 2024 shortlist: women dominate but sole male author is a likely favourite
‘Literary recognition is often still reserved for men’ observes judge Sara Collins as record number of women make six-strong shortlist
Booker Prize 2024 longlist: Irish author Colin Barrett makes 13-strong list
The judges called Mayo writer’s Wild Houses ‘a propulsive, darkly comic account of misadventure in a small Irish town’
The best books of 2024 so far: writers and critics choose their favourite reads
Colm Tóibín’s Long Island, Lucy Caldwell’s Openings, Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits and Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments are among the novels with multiple selections
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May 25th-31st, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Colin Barrett: ‘My biggest fear was who’s going to want to read stories about lads in chip shops in small towns?’
The author’s writing, including his excellent debut novel, is firmly rooted in Mayo where he grew up
Fiction to look out for in 2024: Returning favourites, a fearsome degenerate, and Ireland’s trailblazing all-woman rock band
New novels by Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín and Marian Keyes are among the works in the pipeline, along with eagerly anticipated debuts by Ferdia Lennon and Scott McKendry
How a tiny literary magazine became a springboard for great Irish writing
The Stinging Fly, which is celebrating 25 years, has helped launch the careers of many of Ireland’s most promising writers
The Rules of Revelation: Violence and verve in modern-day Cork
Old hurts and grievances are aired in Lisa McInerney's engaging third novel
Calm with Horses: Barry Keoghan shines in a poorly plotted Irish film
Review: Tense, well-acted drama about mad hoodlums starts to drift towards the end
Dublin the last international film festival to dodge the global shutdown
The singularly imaginative film, one of many discoveries, was a worthy winner
Screen Ireland hosts Cannes women event as it steps up funding parity plan
Agency announces winners of low-budget feature film scheme for female talent
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