Irish fiction in the digital age: doom and gloom or boom and bloom?

The Irish novel may be at a crossroads, says Bert Wright, but Irish fiction is as vibrant and multifarious now as fiction has ever been in any culture in literary history

The writing ritual: from blank page to Booker contender

Doughnuts and cigarettes or blindfold, earmuffs and earplugs? Writers can have odd ways of getting ready for their working day – or night. Gavin Corbett, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Henrietta McKervey, Thomas Morris and Paul Murray take us into their creative worlds

10 summer releases to watch out for

New novels from Milan Kundera, Paul Murray and Nuala Ní Chonchúir are among the season's highlights

Colm Tóibín’s books of the year

Author of The Testament of Mary, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Three Irish authors make Man Booker longlist

Jim Crace’s ‘Harvest’ hard to beat despite interesting list

Corbett wins Irish Novel of the Year award at Listowel

’This is the Way’ takes €15,000 Kerry Group Award at literary festival

Word for word: a year of Irish debuts