This event coincides with the one-day pop-up installation of Irish in Resistance During World War II, featuring 12 storyboard artworks telling the stories of Irish people who stood up to fascism ...

Welcome to this week’s Irish bestselling books charts. We have some fabulous non-fiction in for Ireland-lovers, with Best of Ireland: An Insider Guide to the Real Ireland by Cassie Stokes at ...

Competition deadline: 16th November 2026 The Clonegal/Kildavin Veteran Players Group was formed in May 2013. Verteran Players Group has now six publications under its belt. “Lest We ...

Author Teresa Doran describes the evolution of her novel Running Home, from an attendance at a writing course and on to publication . . . “Describe a child, whose parent has just been killed in an ...

Join us for an interactive evening, bringing artists from the Voices of Peace exhibition together with audiences to discuss peace, equality, and human rights through contemporary artistic expression.

The weather, as I write this, is wet and windy. In a literary sense, if I felt the need to include it in a story, I would describe it as “wild and raging”. My main character, the Protagonist, ...

Andrew O’ Connor discusses the inspiration and writing of his 17th novel The Expectation. The famine had been on my mind this past couple of years. It’s such a turning point in Irish history that ...

The XV ISLA Festival, Dublin’s Irish, Spanish and Latin American literary festival, returns to Instituto Cervantes Dublin on 21 and 22 October 2026, bringing together writers and cultural voices from ...

Finding a Father is out now, on finding your niche as a writer. As a 90’s child, we were absolutely surrounded with absurdly fun ...

Diary of a Sesh Hound is a story that has lived rent free in my head since my own days in college in University of Limerick – a long time ago now! I’ve been a huge reader all my life and ...

The Lit, Europe’s first youth-led festival of reading and writing returns to Waterford City for its ninth year from the 9th-11th October 2026. 28 young people from across Waterford City & ...

Submissions deadline: 29th October 2027 The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust (ICOP), in partnership with HOWL New Irish Writing, is delighted to announce the launch of the ICOP Pamphlet Series 2027.