‘The city is always changing but this is the Dublin of now’: Declan Meade on capturing the capital in words and prose
Dublin, Written in Our Hearts, which marks 20 years of One Dublin, One Book, features Anne Enright, Roddy Doyle, Belinda McKeon, Paula Meehan and Kevin Barry
By Róisín Ingle
Author Shane Hegarty: ‘I’m lucky to see the work done by teachers. They are undervalued’
Books in brief: Tales of a Patchwork Life; Calls May be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes; The Afghans; Holding The Line; I Hope You’re Happy; The Keeper of the Bees
Poem of the Week: Leaving
Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts: A climate-change novel weighed down by a deluge of soupy prose
Green Ink by Stephen May: Smart and energetic, with memorable characters and sharp asides
Putting Wales First by Richard Wyn Jones: Thinking for Wales - An exciting read with global relevance
Francis of Assisi: The Life of a Restless Saint – An empathetic and evenly paced treatment of the medieval saint
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Irish Times readers pick Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These as the best Irish book of the 21st century
By Ella Sloane
Dublin Literary Award 2025 shortlist revealed: Irish Booker winner Paul Lynch makes the cut
By Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
The Routledge Companion to 21st-century Irish Writing: academics deliver hefty report from the coalface on the state of our culture
By Kevin Power
Author Claire Hennessy: ‘The world would be a better place if more people felt that being of service was worthwhile’
By Sophie Grenham
