Welcome to this week’s Irish bestselling books charts. We have some fabulous non-fiction in for Ireland-lovers, with Best of Ireland: An Insider Guide to the Real Ireland by Cassie Stokes at ...

Competition deadline: 16th November 2026 The Clonegal/Kildavin Veteran Players Group was formed in May 2013. Verteran Players Group has now six publications under its belt. “Lest We ...

Author Teresa Doran describes the evolution of her novel Running Home, from an attendance at a writing course and on to publication . . . “Describe a child, whose parent has just been killed in an ...

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The weather, as I write this, is wet and windy. In a literary sense, if I felt the need to include it in a story, I would describe it as “wild and raging”. My main character, the Protagonist, ...

Andrew O’ Connor discusses the inspiration and writing of his 17th novel The Expectation. The famine had been on my mind this past couple of years. It’s such a turning point in Irish history that ...

Finding a Father is out now, on finding your niche as a writer. As a 90’s child, we were absolutely surrounded with absurdly fun ...

Diary of a Sesh Hound is a story that has lived rent free in my head since my own days in college in University of Limerick – a long time ago now! I’ve been a huge reader all my life and ...

David Marshall is a contemporary Irish essayist whose work focuses on civic systems, democracy, governance, and the ...

Submissions deadline: 29th October 2027 The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust (ICOP), in partnership with HOWL New Irish Writing, is delighted to announce the launch of the ICOP Pamphlet Series 2027.

Founded in 2016, the Wild Atlantic Words literary festival aims to celebrate the literary heritage of our rugged coastline over several days of readings, recitals, debates and reflection, while ...

It’s been fifty one years since I dropped out of university in Durban on the east coast of South Africa, to go and find out about life. Dropped out is probably egging it a bit. I didn’t get much ...