Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: A Life in Music: Stellar capture of irrepressible force of nature
Rich collection of essays, poems and reflections on a visionary who breathed life into Ireland’s musical tradition
By Siobhán Long
November’s young-adult fiction: fantasy worlds and alien encounters
Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Development and diversity – Deserving of a wide readership
Author Martin Waddell: ‘When I got blown up, I was no longer fit to write. I lost several years’
Poem of the week: Saoirse Ronan’s Hands
The City and Its Uncertain Walls: Murakami aspires to García Márquez’s lush style
Colm Tóibín’s Long Island is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year
Author Maggie O’Farrell: I had a teacher at school who took the register, called my name and said to me, ‘Are your family in the IRA?’
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Gambling Man by Lionel Barber: A lively account of the rollercoaster life of SoftBank’s billionaire founder
By NJ McGarrigle
My Animals and Other Animals by Bill Bailey: Tales of the comedian’s feathered, furred and scaled friends
By John Walshe
A Benedict Kiely Reader: Drink to the Bird and Selected Essays review - Words on the importance of place
By Neil Hegarty
Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism - A manic press career
By Conor O'Clery
Motivations of the Irish who served in the first World War were complicated
By Ronan McGreevy and Dr Emer Purcell
Children’s author Sibéal Pounder: ‘I was bullied at school. It made me analyse people in a forensic way’
By Martin Doyle
Booker winner Samantha Harvey: ‘My grandad bought land in Donegal. He was afraid of nuclear war, and thought Ireland would be exempt’
By John Self
Wise Women by Sharon Blackie and Angharad Wynne: Elder female archetypes liberated from ancient European stories
By Adrienne Murphy
