Wishing you a very Merry Christmas from the team at www.writing.ie, with lots of ‘you’ time to focus on and form your writing plans – make 2020 YOUR year! We’ll...

At it Again! design and create pocket guides to classic literature. It all started with a romp in the Dublin mountains. Bloomsday was around the corner and we were ready...

With the closing date for the Writing.ie Short Story of the Year Award at the Bord Gais Energy Book Awards drawing close, Elke D’hoker discusses her new book Mary Lavin...

Mary Jane Joyce died of cancer at 7 St Peter’s Terrace, Phibsborough, on August 13, 1903 at the age of 44.  Mary Jane who? As neglected in death as she...

The existence of Bram Stoker’s Journal was virtually unknown to the world of Stoker/Dracula scholars and fans alike; it remained in obscurity until recently. About ten years ago, while completing...

A number of writers, mostly poets it must be said, such as Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, Cathal Ó Searcaigh and myself, have been given the opportunity of reading...

After the Second World War, with the establishment of the monthly magazine Comhar and the publishing house Sairséal & Dill, new writers came to the fore in poetry and prose, and there...

There are a number of Irish-language festivals running in Ireland such as Oireachtas na Gaeilge – IMRAM is another, a literary festival with an eclectic multi-media approach which is outward- and inward-looking at the...

We know little about the poet, Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh, known as Aonghus na Diagachta (‘Aonghus of the Divinity)’. He flourished in the late sixteenth century. Over fifty poems survive,...

Greek and Latin aside, Irish is the oldest written literary language in Europe, considerably older than the dominant language in Ireland, which is, of course, English. Irish is a Celtic...