Advertisement

We need your help now

Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open.

You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough.

If you've seen value in our reporting, please contribute what you can, so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism. For everyone who needs it.

# book

All time
'One of the older lads looked over and said: What the hell is Michael Owen even doing in here?’
'I think in three years' time, there will be an Irish player in the NBA'
Schmidt expresses caution as 'impressive' James Ryan is touted as Ireland captain
Schmidt says worry about ban led to Toner's World Cup exclusion
Dare to dream: The Irish people who aimed high and did the country proud
Sarah Webb
'I'm honouring her and other women who were abused': Tattooist of Auschwitz author returns with Cilka's story
'It's like showing up at the nursing home at daybreak': White House official pens anonymous book on Trump
How two aspiring footballers hit 10 million YouTube subscribers
'You meet people at the high and low points of their lives': What I learned when I quit my job to become a bookseller
Dawn Behan
A Sunday Miscellany essay by Lisa McInerney: 'Setting the scene'
Lisa McInerney
Tiger Woods promises to tell 'definitive story' in new memoir
Opinion: 'Are you criticising someone because they're mirroring something you don't like about yourself?'
Mungi Ngomane
'Last year's Champions League - it really doesn't get any better... But it comes at a huge price'
'I really hope this becomes an annual thing': Aislings queue up at Eason to mark Aisling Day
A short story before bedtime: Bluebell Meadow by Benedict Kiely
Benedict Kiely
Book written by murdered journalist Lyra McKee to go on pre-sale
Donohoe 'stands by' Taoiseach's actions during Garda whistleblower case, as Shatter pens new book 'Frenzy and Betrayal'
Nine-year-old recovering from leukaemia publishes adventure tale with help of Make-A-Wish
'I didn't want to talk to him at all': Why a new book about the Yorkshire Ripper isn't focusing on the killer
'Matthew Pinsent remembers being on the mini-bus for an Olympic final and praying it would crash'
Meet Ann Devine - the Irish mammy to beat all Irish mammies
From a 'dreadful' job to publishing her first novel at 54: 'It's life-changing, it really is'
'Bright, brilliant, educated young women from South County Dublin... don’t end up with a gypsy boxer from Limerick'
The Irishman who battled alcoholism, fought for the world title and was never knocked down in 57 pro bouts
'My career finished with injury and the thing I feared most, my mother dying, happened at that moment... I was 21'
'A generation of footballers are dying without even knowing that they were footballers'
'Paul Merson once rang in the middle of the night because, while asleep, he’d poked himself in the eye'
'If I could do all that, I would hold a world record... I was 11 years and 333 days old'
‘He is an absolute genius. But it comes at a cost’
'Bright, brilliant, educated young women from South County Dublin... don’t end up with a gypsy boxer from Limerick'
'He is sick with the fear... Waiting for them to get to the part where they discover that €294,000 is missing'
'I promised her it wasn’t the end for me. Even if the surgery didn’t work and my career was over'
The day child prodigy Tiger Woods appeared on national TV with legendary US actor Jimmy Stewart
What we learned from reading Becoming by Michelle Obama
'We were near finished the book and my son got murdered'
Opinion: 'Why do we like reading about crime so much in Ireland? Because it offers escapism'
Sam Blake
'Are we prepared? We are not': Brexit hard border warning from former Troubles soldier
'We never expected it': How the OMGWACA authors dealt with becoming a phenomenon
WATCH: Paul Howard on Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, fame and finding inspiration in Kiely's pub
A love of Mars bars and his hesitations about coming out: What we learn from Leo's new biography