Niall Williams

Time of the Child by Niall Williams: A warm and life-affirming story about ordinary people going to extraordinary lengths

Williams favours lyrical language, lines that run on with an abundance of detail, lush and opining

Mon Oct 28 2024 - 05:00

Niall Williams: ‘I am here to write the books I’m supposed to write, not the books an Irish Times reviewer would like’

A critical savaging for his first play scarred the author of Time of the Child. You can’t try to please people, he says. You have to do your own thing

Sat Oct 26 2024 - 05:30

On its 90th anniversary remembering the Irish Press

An Irishman’s Diary

Mon Sept 06 2021 - 01:40

This Is Happiness: Comic and nostalgic sweep of rural Irish life

Review: Niall Williams’s novel delivers us back into a world with fewer problems than modern age

Thu Sept 12 2019 - 06:00

Meet the bright young things of Irish writing

Young Irish fiction writers have made strides in recent years, and 2018 promises some fine debuts. Here six authors introduce their books

Thu Feb 15 2018 - 06:00

What’s on across Ireland this weekend

Waterford Writers’ Weekend, Mayfly angling festival, banjos and set dancing

Sat May 09 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

Niall Williams on the quote that made him ditch the piano and take up writing

‘You remember what the New York Times said about The Great Gatsby? Neither does anyone else.’

Thu Jul 24 2014 - 18:14

Two Irish authors make Man Booker long list

Niall Williams nominated for ‘History of the Rain’ and Joseph O’Neill in running for ‘The Dog’

Wed Jul 23 2014 - 14:37

Family saga awash with good, if meandering, intentions

With many a turn, quotation, vignette and reminiscence, Ruth Swain, the narrator of Niall Williams’s new novel, navigates a river narrative that is also her family history

Sat Apr 05 2014 - 01:00