9 h. ago Ian McEwan: ‘I’ve been following politics for years, and I’ve never felt such anxiety about the chaos, the lack of leadership’

The writer on his futuristic novel What We Can Know, climate change and the alarming lack of self-scepticism in Trump and Putin

Politics

32 h. ago In pictures: Portraits of Irish writers as you have never seen them before

Former New Yorker photographer Steve Pyke has compiled a striking book of portraits beginning with Neil Jordan in 1985 and including Marian Keyes, Edna O’Brien, Sebastian Barry

Politics

4 d. ago Gardaí booked €248,500 worth of unused hotel beds for 2024 Uefa Europa League soccer clash

C&AG report says GRA complained that members should not have to share hotel rooms for Europa League policing duty

Sport

5 d. ago Fresh appeal made 35 years after bookmaker Dessie Fox was shot dead

Dessie Fox (47) was a well-known racecourse bookmaker from Dungannon, Co Tyrone

Events

7 d. ago John Banville: ‘You cannot censor me. They would try it now with all this wokeist nonsense’

The author on his latest novel, Venetian Vespers, how Graham Greene treated him ‘very badly’, and his support for Israelis

Politics

8 d. ago Brenda Fricker’s She Died Young: Oscar winner looks back on her public success and private trauma

Brenda Fricker has written an unsentimental, brilliant and often shocking memoir

Events

1 week ago Ireland's bestselling books of 2025 so far: Mel and Sawyer Robbins top the charts

Ireland's bestselling books of 2025 so far: Mel and Sawyer Robbins top the charts  The Bookseller

Events

2 w. ago Richard Osman: ‘It’s been a very happy decade for me. I’m having my 1990s in the 2020s’

Fifth novel in the best-selling Thursday Murder Club series explores wealth and greed – but in a fun way, the author says

Politics

2 w. ago Aisling series authors: ‘It’s jarring to see the clothes I wore in my early twenties referred to as ‘vintage’’

Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght reveal what readers can expect from next release Our Deadly Summer

Culture

2 w. ago Roddy Doyle: ‘I got a phone call from one of the New Yorker’s famous fact

Authors Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Colin Barrett and Belinda McKeon reflect on the Irish relationship with the magazine ahead of an Abbey Theatre celebration

Politics

2 w. ago Clinical Canada end Black Ferns’ reign and book place in Women’s Rugby World Cup final

Six-times champions out after consecutive title wins

Sport

2 w. ago Brenda Fricker: ‘It was real violence, and I needed protection. Where was my father? There was blood all over me’

Parental abuse, sexual violence and mental health struggles: the Oscar-winner has endured more than most. She explains why she decided to write a memoir

Events

2 w. ago Buncrana woman pens free book for children affected by defective concrete crisis

A young Buncrana woman has voluntarily launched a free book to help children understand the defective concrete block crisis. Síofra… The post Buncrana woman pens free book for children affected by defective concrete crisis appeared first on Donegal Daily.

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2 w. ago Louth author Clara Kumagai’s new book featured in Children’s Books Ireland 2025 guide

Louth author Clara Kumagai’s new book featured in Children’s Books Ireland 2025 guide  Louth Live Dundalk Democrat

Culture

3 w. ago Diagnosed with cancer at 18: ‘It was like, okay, the fun part of life is over’

The Sugartown author on invincibility, mother-daughter relationships and baring her soul in return for publicity

Science

3 w. ago Over 100 events planned as part of the 2025 Dublin Book Festival

Over 100 events planned as part of the 2025 Dublin Book Festival  The Irish Independent

Culture

3 w. ago Leo Varadkar considers a political life at Dublin book launch

Event for Ireland’s youngest ever taoiseach attended by Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, among other politicians

Politics

4 w. ago Colm Tóibín: 'I have it in for business news ... It has to stop'

For the author of A Long Winter and Ship in Full Sail, inspiration often comes subliminally. But he has also brought his inner self to the surface through therapy

Politics

4 w. ago Author Arundhati Roy: ‘We are actually swimming in a sewer of moral rot’

The Booker-winning novelist on her difficult relationship with her mother, how the Beatles ‘gave her oxygen’, and how ‘everything that Trump is doing now already happened in India in 2014′

Politics

last month My Little Library Book Bag available FREE to primary school children in Donegal

To encourage families to make reading a part of their lives, the ‘My Little Library Book Bag’ is available FREE… The post My Little Library Book Bag available FREE to primary school children in Donegal appeared first on Donegal Daily.

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