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 ...

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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 ...

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.

The Lit, Europe’s first youth-led festival of reading and writing returns to Waterford City for its ninth year from the 9th-11th October 2026. 28 young people from across Waterford City & ...

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

A Beginner’s Guide from a (Very Recent) Beginner Scientists sewing mice together. That’s what I heard on the radio one summer afternoon in 2018: a young ...

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 ...

Born in South Wales, my parents took me to what is now Zambia at the age of three months. My father was a contractor with the Overseas Development Agency and, given that I refused to go to boarding ...

Welcome to this week’s Irish bestselling books where non-fiction and children’s titles have really made a splash this week. In Non-Fiction, we’ve got All In by Peter ...