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This year
2024
Voices
Handling heartbreak: 'Rejection does not make you a reject, it just means they weren't for you'
Mark Fennell
19 Feb
8.0k
10
Voices
Extract: 'I felt a kind of bereavement for the Mayo of my youth and my stories'
Colin Barrett
12 Feb
12.5k
1
Voices
Ellen Keane: I used to want to be like everyone else but now I know my arm is my superpower
Ellen Keane
3 Feb
13.2k
6
Last year
2023
Voices
Gill Perdue: From Cagney and Lacey to Bad Sisters, strong female characters are a joy to watch
Gill Perdue
Updated
22 Jun 2023
12.8k
21
Voices
Extract: 'My teacher gave me power with that small bundle of towel, flannel, and pants'
Dr Katriona O'Sullivan
3 Jun 2023
39.3k
10
Voices
Author: Building young adult fiction requires a set of strong characters
Sam Blake
21 May 2023
6.0k
1
Writing
'That is an urban myth': John Boyne claims he never had a spat with Auschwitz memorial museum
11 Mar 2023
19.7k
All time
queen of dirt island
'It felt like it was whispered to me every day': Donal Ryan on the unexpected genesis of his latest novel
21 Aug 2022
21.9k
5
Voices
Author: 'I knew those neo-Nazi classmates were living in a sort of oblivion of meaninglessness'
Conner Habib
20 Aug 2022
20.9k
8
author
Salman Rushdie's family say he has 'life-changing injuries' but his sense of humour is 'intact'
Updated
14 Aug 2022
28.8k
murder she wrote
'How to murder your husband' writer found guilty of killing husband
26 May 2022
28.6k
Voices
Opinion: I look back at the surgery and trauma and ask myself - how did I get through it all?
Marguerite Penrose
12 May 2022
44.6k
Voices
Opinion: We don’t grant girls autonomy, but when we do, it’s because something is their fault
Catherine Prasifka
9 Apr 2022
32.0k
19
Voices
Opinion: 'There are few intergenerational battles as charged as the quest for the mobile phone'
Eithne Shortall
11 Feb 2022
17.0k
0
RIP
Tributes paid to author and journalist Colm Keane, who has died aged 70
Updated
22 Jan 2022
75.1k
13
short story
The Irish Read: A short story from Philip Ó Ceallaigh's new collection, Trouble
6 Jun 2021
6.8k
1
Voices
Opinion: I had fun jobs, crap jobs, redundancies, got fired - and then I wrote my first book
Lizzy Dent
24 Apr 2021
13.9k
4
Interview
Roddy Doyle: 'My books stop being about me the minute I start writing'
13 Oct 2020
13.6k
6
strange flowers
Donal Ryan: 'When I became aware of the darkness in the world, I was so shocked'
20 Aug 2020
34.7k
10
curtis sittenfeld
What if Hillary Rodham had never married Bill Clinton? A new novel imagines the results
25 Jul 2020
20.3k
39
my dark vanessa
Writing in the #MeToo era: 'It was intimidating taking on something in fiction that was happening in real time'
31 Mar 2020
12.0k
6
strange hotel
Eimear McBride: 'The amount of 'she's not a genius, she's a very naughty girl' I've got is just ridiculous'
8 Mar 2020
40.4k
1
Interview
Anne Enright: 'Pre-Trump, if you had a problem it was your problem. That's another head-wreck'
19 Feb 2020
18.6k
10
child of mine
Best-selling author Lee Child is applying for Irish passport because of Brexit
25 Nov 2019
44.6k
57
Voices
A short story before bedtime: Bluebell Meadow by Benedict Kiely
Benedict Kiely
31 Aug 2019
13.1k
2
Upheaval
Jared Diamond: 'It would be imprudent for Ireland to give itself over to self-pity and hatred from the past'
8 Jun 2019
33.7k
40
Voices
Opinion: 'Children need to learn about LGBT issues in school - it will reassure them and combat fear'
Robin Stevens
14 May 2019
17.5k
143
Interview
The Rebellion against Modern Football: Conifa, unrecognised nations and celebrating the grassroots
5 May 2019
14.5k
14
Voices
Opinion: 'Why do we like reading about crime so much in Ireland? Because it offers escapism'
Sam Blake
30 Oct 2018
7.3k
3
cry for help
Author John Boyne on the night he took 'too many pills' after break-up
11 Aug 2018
32.5k
9
the cruelty men
This epic novel explores Ireland's history during a century of hurt and shame
8 Jul 2018
24.1k
55
author
Children's book award drops Laura Ingalls Wilder's name over racist content
25 Jun 2018
41.1k
115
Bloomsday
By day, John Shevlin makes hats, but once a year he transforms into James Joyce
16 Jun 2018
7.8k
3