A former Irish prime minister who played a key role ... 93. An award-winning author and artist who broke down barriers for Black female artists and became famous for her richly colored and ...

Other noteworthy sports figures who died include: basketball players Jerry West and Dikembe Mutombo; baseball players Willie Mays and ... A former Irish prime minister who played a key role ...

The Arts Council has named the seven Irish writers who have been appointed artists in residence across six universities for 2025. Each award is worth €30,000. Sarah Gilmartin is to be English ...

Liz McSkeane is a poet, fiction writer and publisher, winner of the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year for her poetry and the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair for her historical novel Canticle.

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife' is tense, terrifyingly real, and very hard to put down June O’Sullivan did the bulk of the writing during lockdown, with the help of an Irish Writer’s Centre ...

One critic derided her as “the Barbara Cartland of long-distance republicanism”. Another Irish writer publicly shouted across a restaurant that she was “sleeping with the Provos”.

Each month, the Laureate meets a different library book club to discuss a book by an Irish writer, highlighting outstanding Irish writing and celebrating the reader and book clubs. The selected ...

Unpublished during the lifetime of the Irish writer and long-time New Yorker staffer – Brennan was born in Dublin in 1917, and died in New York in 1993 – the manuscript of The Visitor was ...

My short stories were published and shortlisted.” In 2019, she was a finalist for the Irish Writer’s Centre Novel Fair for the start of Ravelling. She wrote the rest over the next three years.

The longlist was announced this week and selected by a jury composed of Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker; Irish author and columnist Martina Devlin; Paris-based writer, poet, translator, musician and ...