There is a collection of work, a book, a book of short stories – with my name on it – and it is out in the world. I know because...

Last month I met with Irish author Alison Jameson in the lovely, bustling surroundings of Cinnamon cafe in Ranelagh, Dublin 6. We were there to discuss her third novel, Little...

The week that Colm Tóibín is shortlisted for the 2013 Booker Prize, Eibhear Walshe discusses his new book: A Different Story – The Writings of Colm Tóibín, newly released by Irish Academic Press....

When my husband bought me two piglets for Christmas I knew that somehow my experience of living on a rundown farm in County Down would make it onto paper. I...

On the publication of her debut novel ‘Love is the Easy Bit’, Mary Grehan prepares to come out of the writer’s closet. There’s a sculpture down at the harbour in...

The main character in journalist Peter Murphy’s new novel, Shall We Gather at the River, is Enoch O’Reilly, a charismatic Irish preacher who believes he was told to spread the...

Lane Ashfeldt’s debut collection of short stories SaltWater launched in Skibbereen on 1 December. SaltWater is an unusual project. The ebook was supported by a successful FundIt.ie campaign, and a...

Tipperary born Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart is a first novel that has not only stunned critics, and launched the new Doubleday Ireland imprint in a unique collaboration with The...

All Gods Dead is my fourth novel, or so I tell people. The truth is it’s my fourth published novel but, behind those neatly bound, completed tomes, are years and reams...

This interview with Claire Kilroy is in “conversation” format, because it felt more like that than a question and answer session when I met Claire in her hometown of Howth...