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 ...

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Unpublished during the lifetime of the Irish writer and long-time New Yorker staffer – Brennan was born in Dublin in 1917, and died in New York in 1993 – the manuscript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

Author Colm Toibin is the latest Irish person to reveal their LA wildfire hell as the blazes rage on for a second week. Toibin follows others like model Tiffany Stanley, Irishwoman Joelle Molloy ...

But Kevin McGee says he has got less work since Brigie ... soap set in the fictional Dublin suburb of Carrigstown. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest ...

Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of the Irish to tell a good story for the IrishCentral Book Club. Published in 2016 ...

Donegal great Eamon McGee reckons Jim McGuinness refused to spend another season wondering ‘what if’ when it came to Michael Murphy. All-Ireland winner McGee, brother of Donegal selector Neil ...