‘The Greatest of These’ – An Irishman’s Diary on Francis McManus

Transporting the grit of real-life legal drama into fiction

‘In the Court’s Hands’ is the story of a stenographer who witnesses something unsettling just before a juror is found dead, and a “race against time to find the truth”

Irish writer Chris Connolly wins Society of Authors’ Award for short story

Belfast poet Stephen Sexton takes award for poets under 30

Ríona Judge McCormack wins Hennessy New Irish Writer award

Chris Connolly wins Emerging Fiction prize, Jane Clarke wins Emerging Poetry award and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne inducted into Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame

Conference will discuss relevance of St Columban for the present century

Opinion: Patron saint of all who seek a united Europe was the first to use the phrase ‘we Irish’