Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch, and Paul Murray are listed among the 13 authors longlisted for the coveted Booker Prize as Ireland becomes the country that has produced the most nominees ...

Irish authors, illustrators, and librarians have joined forces to launch Discover Irish Children's Books, a new campaign in response to the underrepresentation of Irish children's literature on ...

ALTHOUGH I think little of literary movements, believing that great work comes from an individual rather than from a limited company, yet it must be admitted that of the world’s writers of this half ...

Ireland has always been a land of storytellers, a place where words are woven into the very fabric of our culture. And to celebrate that along with its 20th anniversary, the An Post Irish Book Awards ...

St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, so it feels right to go ahead and dedicate a column to my favorite Irish writers. There are many, too many, as the Irish punch well above their population ...

Edna O’Brien, one of Ireland’s most celebrated authors, has died at 93. Critics have praised her novels for honest portrayals of women’s passions. Irish writer Edna O'Brien died Saturday at the age of ...

The Irish Writers Centre has announced its new Patrons Programme on its milestone 35th anniversary. The leading development and resource organisation for writers in Ireland launched the initiative to ...

Around 1912, Michael Patrick Pearson’s grandfather, an Irish immigrant, abruptly abandoned his wife, infant daughter and three stepsons in the South Bronx, and disappeared. That act reverberated ...

A trio of female authors shared how their experiences living through conflict in Northern Ireland influenced their work during a Georgetown University event. Global Irish Studies (GIS), the university ...

Now that Yeats is dead six years and Æ nine, we can perhaps turn to Irish literature for an appraisal of its post-Revolutionary phase. Those two men, already grown to fame before the Revolution, so ...