‘Take your clothes off’: Poets reveal their favourite love poemsFor St Valentine’s Day, some of Ireland’s finest poets talk about their most-loved love poemsMon Feb 13 2017 - 11:57
Mike McCormack secures major publishing dealIrish on RoNAs shortlist; Novel Fair finalists; Mark O’Halloran for Ennis; Mountains to Sea women’s day event; NUIG honours Mike McCormackThu Feb 9 2017 - 11:20
The €500 a year career: do Irish writers get paid enough?The revelation that one of Ireland’s most successful writers has to go back to his old civil service job to earn a living highlights the precarious nature of a writing careerMon Feb 6 2017 - 13:35
Finalists for Irish Times-Poetry Now Award announcedBookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listingsSat Feb 4 2017 - 06:00
Irish writer Sebastian Barry wins Costa Book of the Year award£30,000 prize for ‘Days Without End’ makes him first novelist to have won twiceTue Jan 31 2017 - 20:30
Maeve Brennan podcast with her biographer Angela BourkeAngela Bourke, author of Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker, and Irish Times writer Patrick Freyne discuss and read from her workTue Jan 31 2017 - 10:48
‘I trained as a bounty hunter as research for my debut novel’Deep Down Dead author Steph Broadribb on what makes her tick as a reader and a writerTue Jan 31 2017 - 10:00
Irish writers on Costa Short Story Award shortlistBook news: Doolin Writers’ Weekend and Ennis Book Club Festival highlightsThu Jan 26 2017 - 09:00
President Trump: Irish writers have their sayAs Donald Trump becomes US president, we republish this reaction piece by a host of writers from last November to his electionFri Jan 20 2017 - 06:00
The Guyliner, Blind Date scourge, signs books dealBookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listingsThu Jan 19 2017 - 06:00
Musical tribute channels Bowie, Prince and CohenTribute song combines Purple Rain, Hallelujah and Life on MarsFri Jan 6 2017 - 13:20
Sebastian Barry wins Costa Novel Award again for Days Without EndFellow winners Brian Conaghan, Keggie Carew, Francis Spufford and Alice Oswald compete with Barry for £30,000 Costa prizeTue Jan 3 2017 - 19:30
Another high tree felled: Irish poets salute John MontaguePaul Muldoon, Eavan Boland, his publisher Peter Fallon and a host of poets and academics pay tribute to a great Irish writerSun Dec 11 2016 - 14:00
What to buy with your book voucher: May we recommend...Olivia O’Leary, Anne Enright, Roy Foster, Ardal O’Hanlon, Roddy Doyle and others choose their favourite fiction and non-fiction titles of the past yearFri Dec 9 2016 - 15:30
Eithne Shortall debut novel out next yearPaula Hawkins returns; Graham Norton back at Listowel Writers’ Week; Rose Tremain for Ennis Book Club FestivalWed Nov 30 2016 - 17:00
Michael J Malone Q&A: ‘I wish the books with The Girl … titles would do one’‘It took me so long to see my words in print that I had to learn perseverance’Wed Nov 30 2016 - 13:30
Is there an Irish novel set in every country in the world?We set out to discover if there was at least one Irish novel, short story, play or, at a pinch, poem set in every country in the worldFri Nov 25 2016 - 13:40
Irish writers explore where and why they set their works abroadAnne Enright, Colm Tóibín and a host of Irish writers explore why when it comes to writing fiction the world is their oysterFri Nov 25 2016 - 06:00
Amazon reveals Greystones is Ireland’s self-publishing capitalMeath, Wicklow and Kildare have most independently published authors per personWed Nov 23 2016 - 16:39
Sebastian Barry and Maggie O’Farrell shortlisted for Costa book awardBrian Conaghan on children’s book shortlist. Winners to be announced in JanuaryTue Nov 22 2016 - 19:30
William Trevor: Irish writers pay tributeJohn Banville, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, Joseph O’Connor, Kevin Barry, Roddy Doyle and more salute the late authorMon Nov 21 2016 - 17:21
Philippe Sands finds his family amid crimes against humanityBookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listingsSat Nov 19 2016 - 06:00
Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards winning authors revealedMike McCormack’s Solar Bones is novel of the year. Winners include Marian Keyes, Graham Norton, Paul Howard, Paul O’Connell and Tana FrenchWed Nov 16 2016 - 23:17
Fame awaits for Karen Perry’s Girl UnknownBookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listingsThu Nov 10 2016 - 16:00
Mike McCormack says Goldsmiths Prize win is ‘payback’ for his publisher TrampPrestigious experimental fiction prize won by Irish author for third time in four yearsThu Nov 10 2016 - 11:30
Martin John by Anakana Schofield is November’s Irish Times Book Club pickThe story of a sex offender exiled from Ireland to London, by the award-winning author of Malarky, is on Goldsmiths Prize shortlistTue Nov 1 2016 - 13:00
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack: the Irish Times Book Club podcastPublishing struggles, creative writing classes, the magic of Mayo, artistic influences, mortality and wonderful women are on the agenda this monthMon Oct 31 2016 - 10:00
Halloween treats: writers reveal their favourite scary storiesThirty literary types, including Lisa McInerney, Colin Barrett, Sinéad Crowley, Donal Ryan and John Boyne, on why certain stories send shivers down their spinesMon Oct 31 2016 - 06:00
Shortlists revealed for Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2016Mike McCormack, Eimear McBride, Emma Donoghue, Donal Ryan, Maggie O’Farrell and Sebastian Barry vie for Eason Novel of YearTue Oct 25 2016 - 10:58
Do writers make bad parents? Few agree with John BanvilleHis comment in an Irish Times interview that writers are bad fathers provoked a social media storm. Fellow writers reactMon Oct 24 2016 - 17:31
Ian Duhig and Bernard O’Donoghue on TS Eliot Prize shortlistBookmarks: Lingo Spoken Word Festival; Dara Ó Briain’s science for kids; independent publishing workshop; top titles from French and NevilleFri Oct 21 2016 - 10:30
Publisher Liberties Press admits owing money to authorsPublisher Seán O’Keeffe says he is sorry and vows to address the situation on paymentsSat Oct 15 2016 - 01:00
Paul McVeigh’s Polari prize win a triumph over very strong shortlistBookmarks: an Armagh arts event, a Shackleton festival and murder comes to MalahideThu Oct 13 2016 - 06:00
Graeme Macrae Burnet Q&A: ‘Like most writers I’m a dreadful procrastinator’‘I think the success of His Bloody Project shows that readers are willing to engage with something a little bit out of the ordinary,’ says Man Booker Prize shortlisted authorFri Oct 7 2016 - 10:54
Publisher takes Liberties by charging writers €100 per manuscriptBookmarks: Red Line Book Festival; Carousel Aware Prize; Irish Writers Centre hits the road; 50 years of free educationThu Oct 6 2016 - 17:00
Irish comedians' favourite funny novelsLooking for an amusing read? Ask comic geniuses Kevin McAleer, Tara Flynn, Maeve Higgins, Arthur Mathews, Kevin and Anne Gildea, Owen O’Neill and Ian McPhersonThu Oct 6 2016 - 12:39
How Bloom and Gerty’s activities in Ulysses shocked the US censorAccount relates lesbian couple’s legal battle for the publication of Joyce’s masterpieceSat Oct 1 2016 - 05:00
Three Irish authors on £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize shortlistBookmarks: Books are my Bag; An Evening for Book Lovers; Echoland is Dublin: One City One Book choice; IMRAM Irish language literature festivalWed Sep 28 2016 - 21:00
Arts for arts sake? Writers on the value of an arts degreeIs an arts degree still worth doing? A host of writers explain what they got out of itWed Sep 28 2016 - 10:53
Poem: There We Were, by Enda WyleyWe could have stayed forever there but then the bells rang . . . and we were savedSat Sep 24 2016 - 04:00
First-edition Beckett bio with Lucia Joyce autograph on saleBookmarks: Speaking on the Rising, Anne Enright in Limerick, and Mercier novel competitionFri Sep 23 2016 - 09:00
Ryan Tubridy and PJ Lynch offer sneak preview of their JFK bookChildren’s Books Ireland conference: Patrick and the President draws on Tubridy’s fascination with John F Kennedy’s Irish ties, the subject of his first book, JFK In IrelandWed Sep 21 2016 - 06:54
Ebooks: these books were made for walking‘Flâneuse: Women Walk the City’; ‘An Abbreviated Life’; ‘The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir’Sat Sep 17 2016 - 05:00
Claire-Louise Bennett shortlisted for BBC National Short Story AwardHilary Mantel, Lavinia Greenlaw, K J Orr shortlisted for second time along with Tahmima Anam for £15,000 prizeFri Sep 16 2016 - 19:45
Sally Rooney and Liz Nugent sign big book dealsBookmarks: major Irish debut; US deal for ex-Fair City writer; Stalin the bookworm; Dromineer literary festival; women writers for Icon Walk; Haughey novel for TVThu Sep 15 2016 - 11:00
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney to be made into TV seriesGalway author’s debut won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and Desmond Elliott Prize earlier this year. Sequel is to be published next AprilThu Sep 8 2016 - 11:23
Writers unite to stop Heaney’s birthplace being paved overBookmarks: The poet himself protested the Derry moterway route nine years agoThu Sep 8 2016 - 06:00
Australian Nikki McWatters wins €3,000 Moth Short Story Prize‘The language and descriptive powers of the author suggest a great talent,’ says judge John BoyneWed Sep 7 2016 - 12:53
Poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa awarded €10,000 Rooney Prize for Irish LiteratureA video featuring former award winners including many of Ireland’s leading writers has been made to celebrate 40 years of the Rooney PrizeMon Sep 5 2016 - 18:00