It was 1988, a bad time for junior doctors in Ireland. There was endless wrangling about overtime payments, ending in a pittance being paid for all the extra hours you always had to work, anywhere ...

Three Pillars Press have announced the publication of its first two poetry Pamphlets – winner and runner-up in their 2026 ...

Competition deadline: 14th October 2026 The Peter Porter Poetry Prize is organised by the Australian Book Review and honours the life and work of the acclaimed Australian poet Peter Porter ...

The Shape of Monsters by C.L. Hellisen: A gothic descent into a world of darkness, magic and twisted loyalties. It started with an image of a tattooed man in his car, with his life in a shambles. I ...

The shortlist for the Booker Prize 2026 has been announced, featuring two previous winners, a previous shortlistee, and three authors new to the prize. The shortlist of six books has been selected ...

Author Séamus Ó Tuama on completing his father’s unfinished manuscript – a history of Belfast from a native Irish perspective. When my father, Diarmuid Ó Tuama, died suddenly in January 2023, he ...

The Return of Irish Writers Online by Patrick Chapman Philip Casey (1950–2018) was a poet, novelist and dramatist. He was also the tech-sage of Arran Street East. An innovator on the Irish ...

The story that became Blacktail started in an online writing workshop guided by professional editors. Every week-ish, they’d toss out some story prompts and let the aspirants see what they could ...

Welcome back to this week’s Irish bestselling books charts! This week is all about the children’s market. We’re seeing back-to-school purchases (notably Of Mice and Men, having ...

Originally from Bray, Wicklow, Finbarr O’Sullivan lives in Carlow. Having previously studied and worked in both journalism and translation, Finbarr has a long career in different fields of ...

The Bestseller is a suspense-filled domestic psychological thriller about a therapist who spills her client’s confidential secrets . . . I’ve been an NHS hospital doctor for many years. I’m ...

As the seventh Samhain since their daughter’s death approaches, Klara and Hector Armstrong are struggling to live a normal life in the company of grief . . . Hector Sometimes a story begins with ...