books

Book Of The Week: Deep Burn by Brendan Mac Evilly

Deep Burn, the debut novel by Brendan Mac Evilly, follows Martha Knox, a woman in her late 30s who has been unceremoniously dumped by her husband Gerry less than a year into their marriage.

New Irish Writing: Karl MacDermott's Fail Again Fail Even Better

Fail Again Fail Even Better tells the story of poet Bosco Helly. In the pantheon of great Irish poets, Bosco would be nowhere near that pantheon.

'An intimate kind of magic' - Paul Howard on Sunday Miscellany

Author Paul Howard launched the latest Sunday Miscellany anthology in a packed-out Lexicon Library, Dún Laoghaire, as part of Dublin Book Festival, last weekend. Here's what he said...

In praise of small presses: Ireland's indie publishers celebrated

Ahead of the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair this November, co-founders Tim Groenland and Éireann Lorsung salute a golden age for independent publishing in Ireland.

New Writing: This Is Not a Cookbook by Roxana Manouchehri

The vignettes in the book chronicle Roxana Manouchehri's childhood growing up in Tehran in the 80s following the Iranian Revolution

Oddbody by Rose Keating - read an extract

Oddbody is a collection of ten bold and unsettling short stories that confront themes of desire, fear and shame

Celebrating The Dublin Review at 100: listen to the Arena special

New Irish Writing: Chaos Theory by Sylvia Leatham

We're celebrating Irish Book Week (which runs 18th - 25th October) with a series of choice extracts from outstanding new Irish titles...

New Irish Writing: Injury Time by Kevin Smith

We're celebrating Irish Book Week (which runs 18th - 25th October) with a series of choice extracts from outstanding new Irish titles...

Celebrating global voices in Irish literature

The Irish Writers Centre in collaboration with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, supported by Dublin City Council, has released the latest installment of its series Dublin, One City, Many Stories

Meet the reluctant aristocrat who returned his estate to nature

At the age of 28, Randal Plunkett inherited the title of Baron Dunsany, alongside Dunsany Castle and the 1,600-acre estate.

The cartographers who found the shape of Ireland

Maps allow us to see how the world is organised spatially and show us relationships which cannot be understood from simply reading a text.

New Irish Writing: Beneath the Cedar Tree by Frank Shouldice

It's 1995, five years since Brendan and Irene Gogarty lost their only son. The man responsible for the boy's death is about to be released from prison, four years ahead of sentence.