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Novelist Jan Carson is one of the judges of this year's RTÉ Short Story Competition

Chasing the high: Jan Carson's short story tips for writers

RTÉ is inviting entries to one of Ireland's longest established and most significant literary prizes, the RTÉ Short Story Competition...

RTÉ Short Story Competition • 02 Apr

Eimear McBride returns with The City Changes Its Face

10 books we're looking forward to reading in 2025

Irish literature continues to go from strength to strength.

Books • 28 Dec 24

Have you read Jan Carson's Quickly, While They Still Have Horses?

10 outstanding books you may have missed in 2024

Before our final rundown of the year's best books, we wanted to give a flavour of some of this year's most outstanding releases which, for one reason or another, didn't quite garner the attention they deserved.

Best Of 2024 • 11 Dec 24

Sunday Miscellany: Seeing Van Gogh's Sunflowers, by Jan Carson

On looking, creating, and owning - and getting ejected from the Van Gogh museum...

Sunday Miscellany • 17 Aug 24

Book Of The Week: Quickly, While They Still Have Horses

In 1973, Gabriel García Márquez told The Atlantic: "In Mexico, surrealism runs through the streets... Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America."

Book Of The Week • 17 Apr 24

Believe it or not - Andrew Scott is Tom Ripley

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Hear the Culture 5 every Friday on Aedín in the Afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm

Culture 5 • 05 Apr 24

Jan Carson on her new anthology of dementia-inspired fiction

Books • 06 Sep 22

Claire Keegan makes the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year shortlist (Pic: Ulf Andersen/Getty)

Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award shortlist announced

Books • 05 Apr 22

A.K. Blakemore & Jan Carson are in conversation at this year's Cuirt Festival

Cúirt must-sees @ Galway's International Festival of Literature

Books • 31 Mar 22

The Raptures - author Jan Carson talks to RTÉ Arena

RTÉ Arena • 13 Jan 22

Sinead Crowley's Books Of The Year

Books • 14 Dec 21

The Last Resort by Jan Carson - read an exclusive extract

In her new short-story collection Jan Carson explores complex family dynamics, ageing, immigration, gender politics, the decline of the Church and the legacy of the Troubles...

Books • 25 Mar 21

Where Do I Begin with . . . Agatha Christie

Coming up to Christmas time there is nothing like sitting down to a choice of Agatha Christie mysteries on the TV. But if we were to dust off our selection of Christie paperbacks for a good Yuletide read, where would we begin?

Agatha Christie • 14 Dec 20

Cúirt Festival: In conversation with Kevin Barry and Jan Carson

We are bringing you highlights from this year's Cúirt International Festival of Literature all week.

Culture • 07 May 20

Rick O'Shea's Shelf Analysis: Rick talks to Jan Carson

RTÉ's Book Show host Rick O'Shea is presenting a live chat show, Shelf Analysis, from his home, talking to authors about their books, their bookshelves and life in general during the strangest of times...

Shelf Analysis • 17 Apr 20

Book Show host Rick O'Shea with author Eoin Colfer

Book Show preview: Eoin Colfer & Jan Carson turn a page

On this week's Book Show on RTÉ Radio 1, Rick O'Shea talks to one of the best-selling Irish authors of the 21st century...

Books • 19 Dec 19

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