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

Now in its 19th year, the An Post Irish Book Awards celebrate and promote Irish writing to the widest range of readers possible. Each year, the An Post Irish Book Awards bring together a vast ...

Cecelia Ahern, Donal Ryan, Oscar-winning actor Brenda Fricker, John Banville, RTÉ presenter Miriam O'Callaghan and former ...

An award-winning Irish author chronicled her writing process and read excerpts from her past and current work at a Georgetown University event Sept. 29. Sinéad Gleeson showcased the relevance of Irish ...

Orlaith Darling receives funding from the Irish Research Council. Both Murray and Lynch are part of what Barry, as Irish Laureate for Fiction, calls a “golden age” of Irish writing. Irish writers have ...

The coveted Novel of the Year prize features veterans John Banville and Hugo Hamilton; Joseph O’Connor for the second in his ...

His name is Raymond but he wants you to call him Ray. He contributes to the banter off and on, and studies each person as they talk. When you make a mildly funny comment, he turns his attention on you ...

Carole was born and lives in Dublin. Following a career in medicine, she is now studying for a masters in creative writing (poetry) at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL). Her poem Everything ...

Jennifer Johnston, the award-winning Irish writer, died yesterday, Tuesday, February 25. She was 95 years old. Jennifer died while surrounded by family at a nursing home in Dún Laoghaire, her son ...

ARLINGTON, Texas – It has been almost six years since Notre Dame last got this close to a national championship. The Irish's 42-14 shellacking at the hands of Alabama in the 2013 BCS Championship Game ...