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The Fisherman and the Mermaid—a Rathlin folktale

22 January 2025

Five Young Adult Novels You Won’t Want to Put Down

21 January 2025

An extract from In a Few Whiles, by Caroline Lawless

14 January 2025

Irish in England and English in Ireland—Southern Irish Protestants, by Ian D’Alton

16 January 2025

Attempting the Fantastic—an extract from Journeywork, A Creative Life by Dave Duggan

13 January 2025

NEWS

Comórtas Crann Beo na Gaeilge | Irish Poetry Competition

22 January 2025

Comórtas Crann Beo na Gaeilge | Irish Poetry Competition with The Royal Irish Academy

Artists announced for inaugural Live Literature Mentorship Programme

20 January 2025

Nero Book Awards Category Winners

15 January 2025

Read Your Way—the message of World Book Day to children in...

13 January 2025

Monthly bestsellers—FICTION

9 January 2025

Monthly bestsellers—OVERALL

9 January 2025

Monthly bestsellers—CHILDREN’S

9 January 2025

Monthly bestsellers—NON-FICTION

9 January 2025

Interviews

Burning Books Q&A—Tristan Rosenstock

13 December 2024

Tristan Rosentock talks all things bookish in the companion series to our popular podcast

Bookshop Focus—Little Acorns, Derry

24 October 2024

Bookshop Focus—Jenni Doherty from Little Acorns, Derry How it started

A Leap of Faith—Conor Graham celebrates 50 years of Irish Academic...

14 November 2024

Industry Profile—Ivan O’Brien

6 November 2024

Burning Books Q&A—Juliana Adelman

4 November 2024

‘Many cultures had a myth of a reindeer goddess—why wouldn’t we?’...

1 November 2024

poetry

Comórtas Crann Beo na Gaeilge | Irish Poetry Competition

22 January 2025

A living artefact that records a very real present—Ghostgirl, by Annemarie Ní Churreáin

11 December 2024

A Week, a Month and a Day: Remembering Breda Wall Ryan

5 November 2024

Poetry happening—Molly Twomey

5 November 2024

children's books

Five Young Adult Novels You Won’t Want to Put Down

21 January 2025

Artists announced for inaugural Live Literature Mentorship Programme

20 January 2025

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