A chance meeting with a professor of circus fired children’s writer Sarah Webb’s imagination and led to her latest novel. Sarah learned how Ireland ha...

Michael Collins is the most famous casualty of the Irish Civil War but there is a lot of “what-if-ery”about him, says Ireland’s best-known historian. ...

Playwright Rosaleen McDonagh talks about her activism, disability campaigning, journey through adult education which led to a Phd, and weaving togethe...

A delicate, rare bloom which is “like the blood diamonds of the flower world” and fetches millions of euro is the subject of poet Paul Perry’s first s...

Violet Gibson, an Irishwoman who attempted to shoot Italy’s fascist leader Mussolini, is one among a host of fascinating characters in Evelyn Conlon’s...

From social change to gender change - all bases are covered in this wide-ranging conversation with one of Ireland's most sparkling writers. Lisa McIne...

A new collection of essays which reflect on the perils and compulsions of authorship, the vagaries of success and failure - and what counts as either....

At the age of 20, three months after meeting James Joyce, Nora Barnacle left everything she knew behind to share the adventure of a lifetime with him....

“One of the brilliant things about books is that you can buy a book by the very best writers and if it still costs a tenner – it doesn’t cost any more...

John Banville, who has killed off his own Benjamin Black pen name, is disturbed by explicit depictions of violence in popular culture. He warns that p...