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Dingle Literary Festival serves up another feast for booklovers
Dingle Literary Festival serves up another feast for booklovers
It was also heartening to hear our native language being spoken on the streets and in the establishments of the town, writes Marjorie Brennan

Sat, 23 Nov, 2024

Karl Whitney: In the gold rush of writing, choose your shovel wisely
Karl Whitney: In the gold rush of writing, choose your shovel wisely
People are always interested in learning about the craft of writing. Karl Whitney recommends some books on that very subject.

Fri, 22 Nov, 2024

Book are my business: Book blogger Mairéad Hearne
Book are my business: Book blogger Mairéad Hearne
Mairéad is also a digital marketing assistant, and PA at writing.ie, the website founded by Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin

Sat, 16 Nov, 2024

Books are my business: Literary translator Deirdre McMahon
Books are my business: Literary translator Deirdre McMahon
'I like the fact that I’m working with really beautiful words and concepts. I don’t have to think up my own plots, and that’s a help'

Sat, 09 Nov, 2024

Books are my business: Illustrator Shannon Bergin
Books are my business: Illustrator Shannon Bergin
'It's a collaborative process, with a little bit of back and forth. I love working with authors'

Sun, 03 Nov, 2024

Young woman working on a laptop in a loft
Karl Whitney: Why it’s a good idea for writers to jot down all their random thoughts
Ideas are fleeting. Record them before they are lost, because any finished work, article or novel, began with one notion, says Karl Whitney

Mon, 28 Oct, 2024

Books are my business: Founder of Cuala Creative Katie Meegan
Books are my business: Founder of Cuala Creative Katie Meegan
Meegan came across the concept of virtual assistants when she took some time out to travel last year

Sat, 26 Oct, 2024

Revealed: Irish Examiner writers among those shortlisted for Irish Book Awards
Revealed: Irish Examiner writers among those shortlisted for Irish Book Awards
Public asked to cast votes for best books of the year

Thu, 24 Oct, 2024

Books are my business: Hubb16 bookshop manager Bronwynne Malone
Books are my business: Hubb16 bookshop manager Bronwynne Malone
'We do our best to support people from the town and locality ... we try and cater for everyone'

Sat, 19 Oct, 2024

Books are my business: Crime writing festival director Bert Wright
Books are my business: Crime writing festival director Bert Wright
Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin and Bert founded the Murder One festival in 2018: 'The fun part is getting your favourite writers together and thinking of a theme to discuss'

Sat, 12 Oct, 2024

Kieran Connell: Lessons to be learned from historical experiences of Irish
Kieran Connell: Lessons to be learned from historical experiences of Irish
During the 1960s, the inner-city, working-class areas of Britain’s major cities were becoming increasingly multicultural

Fri, 11 Oct, 2024

Books are my business: Illustrator and author Úna Woods
Books are my business: Illustrator and author Úna Woods
My favourite part of making picture books is when I finally get to see a book I have made printed

Sat, 05 Oct, 2024

Books are my business: Writer and translator Frank Wynne
Books are my business: Writer and translator Frank Wynne
Wynne has translated novels from every country in South America bar Venezuela, but also from Ivory Coast, Senegal, Morocco, and Lebanon

Sat, 28 Sep, 2024

David O'Mahony: Gatekeepers for screen adaptations of books should leave the rest of us to enjoy them
David O'Mahony: Gatekeepers for screen adaptations of books should leave the rest of us to enjoy them
Fine, if you're unhappy about a screen adaptation of your favourite book; hate changes to the stories and characters, by all means be unhappy about it. But don’t deliberately get in the way of somebody else enjoying it

Sat, 28 Sep, 2024

Karl Whitney: An interview is intimate and both parties must open up
Karl Whitney: An interview is intimate and both parties must open up
An interviewer has to reveal something personal if they are to get their subject to reciprocate, to develop an easy rapport as they might with a stranger in a pub

Fri, 27 Sep, 2024

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Books are my business: Secondhand bookshop owner Jim Reid
Running a bookshop was a lifelong dream for Reid and he thought that his hometown of Waterford deserved a good secondhand bookshop

Sat, 21 Sep, 2024

Books are my business: Commissioning editor with Merrion Press Síne Quinn
Books are my business: Commissioning editor with Merrion Press Síne Quinn
A cousin working in publishing was the catalyst for Síne's career choice: 'it was like a lightbulb moment for me and I knew it was what I wanted to do'

Sat, 14 Sep, 2024

Books are my business: Head of published collections at the National Library of Ireland
Books are my business: Head of published collections at the National Library of Ireland
Eoin McCarney developed his love for libraries at Maynooth University and has worked in many different libraries since then

Sat, 07 Sep, 2024

Books are my business: Head of literature at the Arts Council
Books are my business: Head of literature at the Arts Council
Sarah Bannan is responsible for every aspect of the Arts Council’s literature policy and strategy and its implementation, so her role is very varied 

Sat, 31 Aug, 2024

Henry Miller
Karl Whitney: Are my lunchtime walks to the shop part of the writing process?
Finding the balance of being productive and obtaining inspiration can be a tricky one for a writer

Fri, 30 Aug, 2024

New voices: Meet 20 authors identified as an exciting generation of Irish writers
New voices: Meet 20 authors identified as an exciting generation of Irish writers
The An Post Irish Book Awards will promote their works in the run-up to this year’s ceremony

Mon, 26 Aug, 2024

Books are my business: writer, academic and editor Eoghan Smith
Books are my business: writer, academic and editor Eoghan Smith
Dedalus Books is a small, independent publisher, which is very interested in European fiction, especially in translation

Sat, 24 Aug, 2024

Books are my business: Bookouture publicity manager Jess Readett
Books are my business: Bookouture publicity manager Jess Readett
With an Instagram account where she reviewed books Jess Readett realised her passion, so she got a job with a digital publisher and hasn't looked back since

Sat, 17 Aug, 2024

Mary Shelley
David O'Mahony: The romance of certain old bookshops
My life, in many ways, has been defined by bookshops

Sat, 10 Aug, 2024

Books are my business: Leaf and Bower owner Fiona Farrell
Books are my business: Leaf and Bower owner Fiona Farrell
'It has been incredible. I really feel like I have built relationships with people, it does feel like a community space now'

Sat, 10 Aug, 2024

Books are my business: Bloomsbury Ireland head of sales Lorraine Levis
Books are my business: Bloomsbury Ireland head of sales Lorraine Levis
'We do have to be level-headed, in terms of the amount of copies we think we can sell but I love shaping what our year is going to look like in books' 

Sat, 03 Aug, 2024

File photos of the last days of the GDR and the Berlin wall twenty years after its fall on November 9th 1989 - 2009.
Berlin blew cold then hot, but underneath it all is still Berlin
I remember the old West Berlin before the Wall fell in 1989, it was a strange place to visit as a tourist, writes Michael Russell

Fri, 02 Aug, 2024

Books are my business: Publisher Conor Graham 
Books are my business: Publisher Conor Graham 
With a grá for the company Graham bought Irish Academic Press and quickly established Merrion Press as a general non-fiction Irish imprint

Sat, 20 Jul, 2024

Books are my business: Freelance graphic designer Stuart Coughlan
Books are my business: Freelance graphic designer Stuart Coughlan
Coughlan's introduction to being a graphic designer was a design job with the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork

Sat, 13 Jul, 2024

Books are my business: Literary publicist Mark Walsh
Books are my business: Literary publicist Mark Walsh
Walsh works with a range of publishers, self-published authors, and literary festivals

Sat, 06 Jul, 2024

Books are my business: Little Island Books publisher Matthew Parkinson-Bennett
Books are my business: Little Island Books publisher Matthew Parkinson-Bennett
'I came on board with Little Island part-time, initially around 2017. Then my mother was looking to step back, and I took over at that point'

Sat, 29 Jun, 2024

Karl Whitney: Can we trust the voices placed in our heads by the author?
Karl Whitney: Can we trust the voices placed in our heads by the author?
Voice, in literary terms, is a hazy concept; it implies that the reader perceives a human presence behind the book, one that warms up the cold words on the page

Fri, 28 Jun, 2024

Reading on Beach
Summer reads: 20 great fiction books to bring on your holiday
Richard Fitzpatrick shares 15 fiction reads for summer — plus five great crime books

Tue, 25 Jun, 2024

Books are my business: Librarian Stephanie Woods
Books are my business: Librarian Stephanie Woods
'I love when kids come in with their parents to join the library for the first time'

Sat, 22 Jun, 2024

Books are my business: Lily Keohane of Waterstones
Books are my business: Lily Keohane of Waterstones
Lily's role covers all the new Irish publishing: books written by an Irish person, published by an Irish publisher, or anything about Ireland

Sat, 15 Jun, 2024

Books are my business: Founder of Fish Publishing Clem Cairns
Books are my business: Founder of Fish Publishing Clem Cairns
A good metaphor — casting out a net and hauling in the stories

Sun, 09 Jun, 2024

Books are my business: Head of publishing at Cork University Press Sinéad Neville
Books are my business: Head of publishing at Cork University Press Sinéad Neville
Her work involves leadership of the press, which involves overseeing the strategic direction, and the operation and business management side of things

Sat, 01 Jun, 2024

Primavera Sound 2022 - Weekend 1 - Day 2
Karl Whitney: Independent message fades within art’s stifling corporate structures
The corporatisation of culture and fear of losing sales puts pressure on creator independence, generating a surreptitious conservatism

Fri, 31 May, 2024

Books are my business: New Island commissioning editor Aoife Walsh
Books are my business: New Island commissioning editor Aoife Walsh
I saw the film 'The Hours', with Meryl Streep, and I loved the scene with all of the manuscripts and the proofs on the chairs, I thought about how they become books and said ‘I want to do that’

Sat, 25 May, 2024

Romanian author and US translator of 'surreal masterpiece' win Dublin Literary award
Romanian author and US translator of 'surreal masterpiece' win Dublin Literary award
The judges said: 'Solenoid is the work of a major European writer who is still relatively little known to English-language readers.'

Thu, 23 May, 2024

Books are my business: executive publisher at August Books Martina O’Sullivan
Books are my business: executive publisher at August Books Martina O’Sullivan
The publisher focuses on non-fiction in history, popular science, and popular culture, and historical adventure in fiction

Sat, 18 May, 2024

Books are my Business: Independent book shop owner Wally O’Neill
Books are my Business: Independent book shop owner Wally O’Neill
Red Books in Wexford town stocks secondhand, antiquarian, and collectible books as well as a selection of new books, with a focus on local writers

Sat, 11 May, 2024

Books are my business: book buyer Tomás Conneely
Books are my business: book buyer Tomás Conneely
As well as being the main book buyer in thebookshop.ie, Tomás also looks after cataloguing, emails, promotions, and most of the social media

Sat, 04 May, 2024

Books are my business: Teacher, translator and writer  Risteard MacLiam 
Books are my business: Teacher, translator and writer  Risteard MacLiam 
My Irish Books is an independent publisher which specialises in sound books in the Irish language

Sat, 27 Apr, 2024

Books are my business: Skein Press commissioning editor Nidhi Zakaria Eipe
Books are my business: Skein Press commissioning editor Nidhi Zakaria Eipe
Nidhi was a writer before becoming an editor; she published her first book, 'Auguries of a Minor God', with Faber & Faber in 2021

Sat, 20 Apr, 2024

Ryan Tubridy discusses dealing with the loss of his father with David Walliams on new podcast
Ryan Tubridy discusses dealing with the loss of his father with David Walliams on new podcast
In the first episode of his new podcasts, Tubridy tackles some personal topics with guest David Walliams

Tue, 16 Apr, 2024

Books are my business: Online publisher Rachel Drury
Books are my business: Online publisher Rachel Drury
Drury  set up buythebook.ie so Irish authors could easily access an online solution for selling their book without large upfront costs or needing any technical skills

Sat, 13 Apr, 2024

Famed account of Gaelic poets showed riches of a starving people
Famed account of Gaelic poets showed riches of a starving people
Daniel Corkery’s ‘The Hidden Ireland’, published 100 years ago, will be celebrated at a conference in his native city next week

Fri, 12 Apr, 2024

Ryan Tubridy’s next project revealed: Radio presenter announces new podcast series
Ryan Tubridy’s next project revealed: Radio presenter announces new podcast series
He describes it as a 'passion project'

Thu, 11 Apr, 2024

10 new books for April: Marian Keyes, Salman Rushdie, Jan Carson...
10 new books for April: Marian Keyes, Salman Rushdie, Jan Carson...
There's a bumper crop of books on the way over the next few weeks 

Tue, 02 Apr, 2024

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