Interview by Mary McCarthy
The best research is done without realising it. I was a freelance journalist for 15 or 20 years and lived...
Dublin launch: Wednesday 6th June 2019, Rathmines Library.
Hugh McFadden is a poet and literary critic who worked for many years as a news copy editor with a national newspaper group....
The West Cork Literary Festival runs on 12–19 July and welcomes a star-studded cast of writers to Bantry, Co. Cork. This year’s line-up includes Graham Norton, Mary Robinson, Laureate for Irish Fiction Sebastian Barry, Laureate na nÓg...
The Red Line Book Festival celebrates the very best in local, national and international writing. Now in its eighth year, the festival features talks, panels, workshops and theatre shows, as well as a full programme for families...
‘Difficulties of Translation: translating difference into a shared conversation’ is the theme at this year’s John Hewitt International Summer School. There are over 40 events from more than 60 writers, artists, commentators and performers. Writers and artists...
Theo Dorgan explains just why it’s impossible to have a favourite book.
ONE OF THE MINOR HAZARDS of bringing out a new book is the phone call or e-mail from some young journalist who’s...
Sarah Maria Griffin reveals her romance with the National Library in Dublin City and the LexIcon in Dún Laoghaire
I’d known it was there for years before I really fell in love with it,...
The illustrated world of daughter-and-father team Kathi and John Burke
The idea for Kathi and John’s first book, Irelandopedia, came as a result of a conversation between Kathi and Nicki Howard of Gill Books....
Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh of Cois Life talks about publishing contemporary teenage fiction and confounding expectations as Gaeilge
OPINION
There’s nothing I like more than reading. First drafts, finished drafts, proofs, the...
Jane Mitchell’s book A Dangerous Crossing tells the story of Ghalib, a young Kurdish boy fleeing the Syrian civil war.
Over the last few years, news reports have been replete with harrowing images...
