Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch, and Paul Murray are listed among the 13 authors longlisted for the coveted Booker Prize as Ireland becomes the country that has produced the most nominees ...

Irish authors, illustrators, and librarians have joined forces to launch Discover Irish Children's Books, a new campaign in response to the underrepresentation of Irish children's literature on ...

Gráinne O’Hare’s Thirst Trap has been announced as the winner of the 2026 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award at the ...

ALTHOUGH I think little of literary movements, believing that great work comes from an individual rather than from a limited company, yet it must be admitted that of the world’s writers of this half ...

Ireland has always been a land of storytellers, a place where words are woven into the very fabric of our culture. And to celebrate that along with its 20th anniversary, the An Post Irish Book Awards ...

Writers and literature lovers gathered recently to celebrate the launch of The Irish Writers Centre’s new Patrons Programme, an initiative designed to support emerging writers. Adding to the special ...

St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, so it feels right to go ahead and dedicate a column to my favorite Irish writers. There are many, too many, as the Irish punch well above their population ...

Edna O’Brien, one of Ireland’s most celebrated authors, has died at 93. Critics have praised her novels for honest portrayals of women’s passions. Irish writer Edna O'Brien died Saturday at the age of ...

A trio of female authors shared how their experiences living through conflict in Northern Ireland influenced their work during a Georgetown University event. Global Irish Studies (GIS), the university ...

The train home from Dublin took two hours. As it neared the town where I was born and where my family lived, I felt a discomfort common at the time among students. This was the early 1970s and ...

Now that Yeats is dead six years and Æ nine, we can perhaps turn to Irish literature for an appraisal of its post-Revolutionary phase. Those two men, already grown to fame before the Revolution, so ...