The first translation into English of Máirtín Ó Cadhain's acclaimed classic Cré na Cille, The Dirty Dust by Alan Titley, is a long overdue landmark, which Colm Tóibín assesses for us on Saturday.

As well as this resurrection, there are a couple of new births to celebrate, first novels by two writers who have already won recognition, the former for recently winning a Hennessy New Irish Writing award, the latter for a very successful blog. Anna Carey reviews What Becomes of Us by Henrietta McKervey and author Joseph O'Connor reviews The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney.

Sarah Gilmartin considers The First Bad Man by Miranda July and Eileen Battersby reviews Farewell Cowboy, by Croatian author Olja Savicevic, translated by Celia Hawkesworth.

Robert Dunbar's children's books column appraises Anthony Browne's reissued illustrated version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to mark the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Lewis Carroll's classic; Jon Scieszka's Battle Bunny; David Wiesner's Art & Max; Sophy Henn's Pom Pom Gets the Grumps; Emily MacKenzie's Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar; and David Lucas's beautifully designed This Is My Rock.

On the non-fiction front, author Peter Murphy reviews Alfred Hitchcock, a biography of the great film-maker by Peter Ackroyd.

Colin Murphy, the playwright who wrote The Guarantee, reviews Rule-Breakers by Niamh Hourigan, a look at the aspects of Irish culture that fed into the financial crash.

Denis Donoghue considers a reissued classic, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke.

Isabelle Cartwright's Word for Word column highlights the importance of a good proof-reader.

Finally, for the week that's in it, there's a new poem by Moya Cannon, The Countermanding Order, 1916.