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Irish novelist SEBASTIAN BARRY’s latest is set in post-Civil War America

Sebastian Barry's The Newer World sets out the life and times of Tennyson Bouguereau, a freed man making his way in postbellum America. The post Irish novelist SEBASTIAN BARRY’s la...

Sebastian Barry: ‘At 71, sex is somewhere between a memory and an ambition’

The author on dashed dreams of being the next Bob Dylan, cruel words from a revered poet and listening to his own snoresBorn in Dublin, Sebastian Barry, 71, published his first nov...

On This Day: “The Plough in the Stars” playwright Sean O'Casey passed away

It is likely that no other theatre in the English-speaking world is more identified with an individual playwright, and owes more to that playwright than the Abbey Theatre does to S...

On This Day: Irish dramatist Sean O'Casey dies in 1964

Sean O’Casey not only changed the world of theatre, he took the time to put the passion and pain of his life into print for the rest of us to marvel at.

Spellbinding Susanna Clarke returns with a minute miracle: O Now! by Niall Williams, The Bishop of Durham by Susanna Cla...

Katharine Spurrier reviews

On This Day: Irish Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney dies in 2013

Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who died on August 30, 2013, described his own journey through life best in his beautiful epitaph. 

Neuer Roman von Douglas Stuart: Daddy-Issues im Dauerregen

Booker-Preisträger Douglas Stuart erzählt von homosexuellem Leben auf den Äußeren Hebriden. Eine Form findet er nicht. mehr...

From postman to power broker - How Seamus O’Dwyer’s ear for voices shaped Wexford Festival Opera

Cork-based Kerry native wins prestigious Limerick writers’ award

Maggie O’Farrell and John Boyne make shortlist for Novel of the Year in An Post Irish Book Awards

Full 2026 shortlist highlights work of writers and illustrators across 19 categories

Previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart shortlisted for Booker prize

The two authors are in the running for the £50,000 award alongside a Pulitzer winner, a science fiction legend, a comic writer and a debut novelist• Booker judge Mary Beard on this...