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Teresa Mannion: she loves the light in her new work space, her kitchen

At home with... Teresa Mannion

It's business as usual for RTÉ's Teresa Mannion in Galway but there is still time for a few chords as she learns how to play the ukelele - there are many strings to Teresa's bow

Entertainment • 24 Apr 20

Eimear McBride is eyeing her second Baileys Women's Fiction Prize for Fiction

McBride eyes her second Baileys Women's Fiction Prize

Irish writer Eimear McBride has made the 16-strong longlist for this year's Baileys Women's Prize For Fiction for her novel The Lesser Bohemians but she faces strong competition from the likes of Margaret Atwood and Rose Tremain .

eimear mcbride • 08 Mar 17

Eimear McBride returns to teh fray with The Lesser Bohemians

Eimear McBride returns with The Lesser Bohemians

Novelist Eimear McBride has revealed that she started writing her second novel, The Lesser Bohemians, before her first even had a publisher.

Entertainment • 28 Aug 16

Some Irish names hoping to make it onto the Man Booker longlist

Irish novelists in contention for Man Booker Longlist

The longlist for the Man Booker Prize will be announced on Wednesday and there is a number of strong Irish contenders hoping to make it onto the list of thirteen or so novels selected by the judges.

Man Booker Prize • 27 Jul 16

Costa-shortlisted author Neil Griffiths - eyes on the prize.
(Pic courtesy Twitter)

Prize-winning author sets up prize for small imprints

British novelist Neil Griffiths has set up a new literary prize to celebrate the “small presses producing brilliant and brave literary fiction” in the UK and Ireland.

Entertainment • 22 Feb 16

Paul McCartney - first full biography written with his approval and with access to family members and friends.

New books on Macca and Leonard Nimoy due 2016

An artist-approved biography of Paul McCartney by Philip Norman, a new novel by Irish author Eimear McBride, and William Shatner’s tribute to his friend and Star Trek co-star, the late Leonard Nimoy are among the books coming our way in 2016.

Entertainment • 28 Dec 15

Eimear McBride - second novel on the way next Autumn

Eimear McBride’s second novel due Autumn 2016

Following the prize-winning A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing, details have been released of Eimear McBride's eagerly awaited follow-up though fans will have to wait another year to get their hands on the novel.

Entertainment • 17 Sep 15

NY Times dubs Eimear McBride novel future classic

Joshua Cohen of the New York Times, hails Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing as "a future classic".

Entertainment • 22 Sep 14

Will Self for Literary Tent at Electric Picnic

Will Self, Eimear McBride, Julian Cope and Roddy Doyle are among the guests at the Electric Picnic Literary Tent this weekend.

Entertainment • 25 Aug 14

Aoife Duffin (Moone Boy) in A Girl is a Half-formed Thing at this year's Dublin Theatre Festival

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing for Theatre Festival

A stage production of Eimear McBride’s novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, will premiere at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival.

Entertainment • 19 Aug 14

McBride - Wrote the novel in six months when she was 27

Author Eimear McBride wins Baileys Prize

Irish author Eimear McBride has won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction with her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, which took her nearly a decade to get published.

Entertainment • 05 Jun 14