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Roddy Doyle: ‘When you’re a Dublin writer, you’re inevitably asked about Joyce, and it’s tedious’

The Booker prize-winning novelist and screenwriter shares the tune he’d want played at his funeral and why he’d have a couple of pints with Charles Dickens but not threeYou’ve writ...

Martin Doyle: ‘Brian Moore really captured my imagination as a young man, writing about my part of the world’

My Life in Books

Prose before bros: Irish men's leabhar power readers not translating into book clubs

A shoutout for Irish author Claire Keegan from Dua Lipa is aspirational – young fellas, take note.

Dooneen by Keith Ridgway review – uncanny visions of dark times in Dublin

Ireland is trembling with nascent social unrest in this labyrinthine tale of one man’s homecomingIrish author Keith Ridgway’s latest novel deals, both mischievously and menacingly,...

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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Joseph Birchall’s Darcy Doyle returns with twisty mystery as missing child case turns deadly

Fiction

Declan Gorman to bring audiences back to the ‘80s in new one-man show

ARDAL O’HANLON turns his hand to cosy crime fiction with an Irish community setting

Speaking as an avid Father Ted fan, anyone similarly inclined won’t be disappointed with the comedic elements in Ardal O’Hanlon’s latest novel. The post ARDAL O’HANLON turns his ha...

Wexford man Philip Doyle hailed as a pioneer who transformed women’s rugby in Ireland

Former Ireland women’s coach was remembered as a trailblazer, devoted family man and larger-than-life character during a celebration of life attended by hundreds

Rodney’s Rules: Sunday’s Comic

Sligo native captures the character of growing up in rural Ireland as a teenager in new audiobook

John Broderick’s The Pilgrimage – an overlooked portrait of small-town Ireland – is back in the spotlight

Fiction

Raising them right: Mammy salad, no Wi-Fi and endless boredom. Ah, the 80s summers in Ireland

Niamh O’Reilly has told her kids that in ‘her day’, there was no fixation with hydration and no overstimulation. Could Gen Alpha survive an ’80s summer?

Rocco Devlin stars with 1-2 as Derry overpower Roscommon to reach All-Ireland MFC semi-finals

Gabh ar aistear álainn le hEoin Warner go Conamara Fiáin...

‘It’s a good job I played minor hurling’ — Conn McDunphy survives final-day ‘dirty tricks’ to win Rás on home roads

Bowled over by Pride: fun and friendship at Bray’s Gay Bowl

McDaid's Folk Club

PHOTO: McDaid's Folk Club in Midleton, Cork © FMF 2003....

Ian Rankin: The Rebus author on ageing, West Cork and Rory Gallagher 

The Scottish crime writer is coming to Bantry for the West Cork Literary Festival. He also tells us about his favourite books of all time 

Limerick [In Honour of our Patriot Poet]

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