My debut novel was born out of a passionate sense of indignation. In Northern Ireland, it’s well known that we have a divided society: Catholics and Protestants. This has been...

It could be said that Rob Doyle’s first novel, Here Are the Young Men, caused something of a stir. Chosen as a book of the year by the Irish Times,...

Putting the finishing touches to my second novel, Citizens, over the summer, I hit a wall. Every writer hits this wall at some stage or another. It was draft twelve...

Short stories are sly. They act all benign and friendly and companionable and then when you’re happy and relaxed and your guard is down they grab you in a headlock...

When I have the first draft of a novel complete, I like to travel to the places the book is set in to do on-the-spot research. There is something about...

My novel, Generation, will be published at the end of July. Its journey to publication was straightforward: when I was satisfied with the manuscript, I sent it to my agent; she...

Belinda McKeon’s first novel, Solace, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Sunday Independent Best Newcomer Award and was named Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year in 2011,...

Why write? Why turn perfectly sunny days into hours sitting in a darkened room, waiting, searching, imagining and remembering experiences that might better be left unsaid. Perhaps it’s an addiction,...

Gavin McCrea was born in Dublin in 1978 and has since travelled widely, living in Japan, Italy and Spain, among other places. He holds a BA and an MA from...

I began 2014 with an almost-completed first novel, Eggshells, pieced together from jottings on scraps of paper that made their way into different-sized notebooks and eventually into a book. The...