Queen’s University announce Oliver Jeffers, Marian Keyes, and Enda Walsh as the next Seamus Heaney Fellows The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast has announced the appointment of...
Pioneering publisher, SelfMadeHero, is preparing for the autumn with three distinctly different graphic novels that variously celebrate working-class solidarity in early 20th-century Britain, the experience of coming out...
Scéalta agus Seanchas – Béalodeas agus cuimhní cinn ó Ghaeltacht na nDéise. Potatoes, Children and Seaweed – Forgotten tales of a coastal community in the Waterford Gaeltacht.
This year’s Wild Atlantic Words literary festival has been postponed, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Castlebar-based festival which was to take place in October, had a high profile line-up that included...

Death of Eugene McCabe

Playwright and writer Eugene McCabe has died aged 90. Born in Glasgow in 1930 to parents from Co. Fermanagh, he came to Co....
Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan | Doubleday Ireland | 208pp | £12.99 pb9781781620410 review by Joanne O'Sullivan
SUBMISSIONS 2020 Submissions for the 2020 An Post Irish Book Awards are open Eligibility and category information Along with every other arts...
Little Island acquires middle-grade debut by Booker-longlisted novelist Sam Thompson Little Island Books will publish the debut children’s book by Booker-longlisted novelist Sam Thompson in...
Below the Big Blue Sky by Anna McPartlin | Zaffre | 496pp | €16 HB | 9781838770785 Review...
The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes | Oneworld | 208pp |€15.99 hb | 9781786077806 review by Liz Maquire "Hughes’s...