In Love – A Memoir of Love and Loss: An important and timely read
Amy Bloom’s frank account of a marriage opens the way for a discussion about the right to die
Amy Bloom’s frank account of a marriage opens the way for a discussion about the right to die
Adrian Duncan’s quietly reflective novel brings to life an engineer’s work in Berlin
A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages
Sally Rooney and Bernard MacLaverty shortlisted for the €100,000 prize
An Irishman’s Diary: Getting a taste for Robinsonade, a 300-year-old literary genre
Events celebrating female talent to take place from London to Warsaw to Washington
Laureate for Irish Fiction Sebastian Barry and author Paul Lynch among participants
Students would have had ‘no cause for complaint’ with ‘accessible’ Paper 2
Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up
Chris Connolly wins Emerging Fiction prize, Jane Clarke wins Emerging Poetry award and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne inducted into Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame
Some admirers celebrate the playwright’s work on the 400th anniversary of his death
‘It’s not a historical piece. This is theatre.’ Here’s how Signatories took shape
Review: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne admires a compelling novel about the friendship of poet Emily Dickinson and her Irish maid
Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘Kate O’Brien is a master of classic realism. And that’s okay now. Mount Parnassus has many mansions’
The countdown is on to find Ireland’s favourite Irish poem, so we’ve asked a selection of writers and readers to tell us their favourite few lines of verse, and to nominate which poem they think is best from RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland shortlist
‘I write in a very troubling manner that I wouldn’t advise anyone to adopt’
Forget the inspirational teachers and creative encouragement that many writers experienced at school. Playwright Frank McGuinness recalls a schooling in the 1950s and 60s that sickens his stomach, and ‘beat the lining out of any love for exploring the intricacies of language’
Bo Gunnar Almqvist: May 5th, 1931-Nov 9th, 2013
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices