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Burning Books…on paper— Rosaleen McDonagh

10 October 2021

What books would you save if your house was on fire? Match lights for new podcast

21 May 2021

Light and shade in new collection by Colm Ó Ceallacháin

19 May 2022

DON'T MISS

What books would you save if your house was on fire?...

21 May 2021

Listen to the Books Ireland podcast on Spotify, Audioboom or wherever you get your podcasts.

Poetry: Amy Wyatt

19 February 2021

photo credit Ruth McKee "...a poem is a way of happening, a mouth." (W.H.Auden)

Walter Scott Prize Shortlist— Christine Dwyer Hickey & Joseph O’Connor

31 March 2020

Top 20 Borrowed Books in 2019

26 February 2020

Death of Julia O’Faolain

29 October 2020

It Rose Up—a rare collection of Irish fantasy

13 January 2022

STAY CONNECTED

The history of 14 Henrietta Street brought to life

18 May 2021

Flash Fiction—The Fountain Pen Lover, by Marc Audet

21 June 2022

LATEST VIDEOS

Flash Fiction—The Reminiscing of a Student House

What does diversity and inclusion mean? New course from Publishing Ireland

The First Page—Adrian Duncan reads from The Geometer Lobachevsky

Anne Enright to receive Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award

Photographs from the past brought to mesmerising life in Old Ireland In Colour

TRAVEL GUIDES

Cancelled: Cork International Poetry Festival

5 March 2020

The Cork Spring Poetry Festival, produced by the Munster Literature Centre, will be taking place from the...

Poetry Happening—Nandi Jola

14 April 2022

Nandi Jola reads poems from her new collection.

MOBILE AND PHONES

Pictures before Words—Paul Tubb

13 May 2020

Children's author and illustrator Paul Tubb on his approach to book creation A question...

Adult non-fiction

18 December 2019

NEW YORK 2014

Bologna Children’s book fair cancelled for 2020

11 March 2020

Following an initial postponement from March to April, the Bologna Children's Book Fair has been officially cancelled for this year.

The Literary Salon – Podcast

27 June 2019

Damian Barr's Literary Salon tempts the world's best writers to read exclusively from their latest greatest works and share their own personal...

TECH

Death of Eugene McCabe

27 August 2020

Playing with the form of exhibitions: Nuala O’Faolain @MoLI

3 September 2020

Poetry: Eleanor Hooker

26 February 2021

FASHION

A Very Strange Man—Sue Leonard on Alannah Hopkin’s memoir of Aidan Higgins

26 April 2021

Poetry Happening—Victoria Kennefick

5 July 2021

Ronan Sheehan: This Literary Life

22 February 2021

Cancelled: Irish Book Trade Conference

13 March 2020

LATEST REVIEWS

Arts Council open call for 2021 Writer in Residence University Positions

9 October 2020

Call for applications: Writer in Residence positions in Irish universities in 2021 The Arts Council Writer in Residence was...

Burning Books…on paper—Rory Gleeson

15 October 2021

John O’Brien, Dalkey Archive Press (1945-2020)

25 November 2020

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