St Patricks Day has come and gone in a blur of slick marketing and a lot of drinking.  We had the greening of iconic monuments all over the world, our...

We’ve gone all romantic at writing.ie and thought we’d bring you a mixture of the fiction, non fiction and poetry that might make that great Valentine’s gift, or at least...

In a genre is called photo-haiga, where text and images are delicately matched, Gabriel Rosenstock brings you beautiful words in both Irish and English, to accompany Ron Rosenstock’s photographs. A...

In the tradition of the “Best-of-the Year” polls that we always see this time of year, I’ve decided to take a look at the “Best Music Books of 2012”. Having...

Deepest Red is a collection of writing about the myth, madness, and glory that is Manchester United. Edited by lifelong United fan, and journalist, Brian Foley, it brings together writers,...

A short fiction collection is like a box of chocolates: in each there’ll be the select few you pick as favourites, others that you’re less keen on. But as the...

Comedian and author, Colm O’Regan’s Isn’t It Well For Ye? The Book of Irish Mammies, was nominated for the Bord Gais Energy Book Awards. Read our his article that reveals...

Well it’s that time of year and we look back at what has been a really strong and eventful year for Irish books and publishing and wonder if the year...

I have nothing against E Readers and Kindles and the like but, for me, there is nothing, absolutely nothing that compares to getting my hands on a new book –...

Melanie Verwoerd is a human rights campaigner and former South African Ambassador to Ireland. Her memoir  When We Dance hit No 1 in the best seller list and gives a...