"The Boy from the Sea" by Garrett Carr is the June 2025 selection for the IrishCentral Book Club. Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ...

opinions and analysis on all things books from the Irish Examiner's team of specialist writers, columnists and contributors.

In Michelle McDonagh's latest book, when the body of a young American tourist is found at Blarney Castle, her grieving mother ...

Galway-based author Elaine Feeney's debut novel was shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year, long-listed for the Booker Prize ...

Every medieval society had a hierarchy and Irish society before the Anglo-Norman invasion was no different. A tantalising glimpse of that society is contained in the Book of Leinster, which is to ...

Tickets available at irishwriterscentre.ie Skein Press is publishing a book this autumn by Iranian-Irish visual artist Roxana Manouchehri, This Is Not a Cookbook is a memoir of growing up in ...

opinions and analysis on all things books from the Irish Examiner's team of specialist writers, columnists and contributors.

“Heart, Be at Peace,” winner of last year’s award for Irish Book of the Year, however, is a sequel. It picks up from his first novel, “The Spinning Heart,” a short, brilliant work set in ...

I loved milky coffee from a very early age. My mother would be having a coffee when I’d come home from primary school, so I’d boil some milk, make a coffee – I think it was just Nescafé ...

We’re in full ­festival swing. After 10 (mostly) sun-drenched days, a superb International Literature Festival Dublin concluded last weekend. A personal highlight was interviewing Michael ...

Ed Sheeran has sparked backlash after revealing he identifies 'culturally as Irish' despite being born and raised in England, as he was heavily influenced by his time on the island. While the ...

He was busy publishing book reviews right up to a few weeks before he passed away in February 1970 - his last review appeared in The Irish Weekly on January 24 1970 - so he might still have been ...