The Irish Times

Eoin McNamee: On My Culture Radar

The writer on Bob Kelly in Tintown, actor Amybeth McNulty and Eily O’Connell’s jewellery

Sat Jul 13 2019 - 05:00

Furious Hours review: A mannerly account of Harper Lee’s trial run

Casey Cep’s book on author’s true crime project is bogged down by fact-checked stasis

Sat May 25 2019 - 06:00

Last Stories by William Trevor is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages

Thu May 23 2019 - 16:00

Anna Burns: From relative unknown to Man Booker prize winner

‘Milkman’ author has been praised for her ‘dazzingly inventive’ writing approach

Tue Oct 16 2018 - 22:30

Man Booker Prize: Belfast writer Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’

First Irish writer to win prestigious £50,000 award since Anne Enright in 2007

Tue Oct 16 2018 - 21:50

Canadian ambassador Kevin Vickers launches Arctic novel

Attempt to find Northwest Passage setting for Ed O’Loughlin’s new book Minds of Winter

Wed Aug 31 2016 - 01:00

Ireland’s other Law Library

The professions of writer and lawyer share lots of similarities so it is perhaps no surprise that so many Irish lawyers venture into fiction. Sarah Gilmartin hears the evidence

Mon Oct 12 2015 - 09:53

Ten great Northern Irish novels you might have missed

Authors are using new ways of writing to reflect a changed political environment

Wed Aug 12 2015 - 11:30

Eoin McNamee: a capital crime writer

A decade after writing The Blue Tango about a real-life murder, the author revisited another crime scene in Orchid Blue. Martin Doyle interviews a true great of true crime

Fri Jun 26 2015 - 10:45

Northern Irish noir – the crime of Cain and the cult of Calvin

The Patricia Curran case has all the attributes of classic noir, says Eoin McNamee. It is easy to imagine the whole affair transposed from Belfast to 1950s Los Angeles, Black Dahlia territory

Fri Jun 12 2015 - 08:33

Eoin McNamee’s Blue is the Night wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of Year Award

Paul Muldoon wins €5,000 Pigott Poetry Prize for One Thousand Things Worth Knowing at ceremony to mark opening of Listowel Writers’ Week

Wed May 27 2015 - 20:00

Blue is the Night by Eoin McNamee is the new Irish Times Book Club choice

Win one of 12 signed copies of what author David Peace called ‘a genuine, original masterpiece’

Mon May 25 2015 - 11:50

Ifta 2015 film and drama nominees announced

‘Frank’ with Michael Fassbender and ‘Patrick’s Day’ with Moe Dunford top nominations

Wed Apr 29 2015 - 16:02

Turning true crime into true blue fiction

Eoin McNamee’s ‘blue’ novels explore Northern Ireland before the Troubles

Sun Apr 19 2015 - 14:00

New Irish Writing comes to ‘The Irish Times’

The page founded by David Marcus, which launched the careers of many of our best known writers, has found a new home

Sat Jan 24 2015 - 01:00

The L factor: a literary ambassador for Ireland

Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction

Wed Nov 05 2014 - 01:00

Television: The thin blue line between plods and plodding

Review: An original TG4 thriller and the always gritty ‘Scott & Bailey’ bring life to old formulas. But ‘Lewis’ is just old

Sat Oct 25 2014 - 01:00

Mixed reaction from writers over death of intractable icon

Arts community praises Paisley’s vitality, but some find it hard to forgive his divisive role

Sat Sept 13 2014 - 01:00

Death in paradise: Adrian McKinty and the strange case of the Cocovores

The crime writer has turned away from Northern Ireland for his new novel, about a murder in a German nudist religious cult in the South Pacific a century ago

Sat Jul 26 2014 - 01:00

Stranger than fiction: when crime captures the imagination

Nicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroad

Fri Apr 04 2014 - 01:00

NI Arts Council funds Lough Derg: the musical and Hurricane Higgins: the novel

Colin Bateman and Eoin McNamee among four artists to receive £15,000 awards

Mon Feb 24 2014 - 16:04

Killer instinct: a golden age of Irish crime fiction

Irish crime writing is booming. Ahead of a weekend festival, some of the writers who have their fingerprints all over this crime wave discuss the reasons behind it

Thu Nov 21 2013 - 01:00