# Literature

All time

'Wearable' book lets you experience characters' emotions while reading

The book and wearable vest uses sensors and can trigger feedback based on the protagonist’s emotional or physical state.

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Jan 29th 2014, 7:30 PM

# what to watch

Here's what you'll be reading, watching and listening to in 2014

Looking for new books, music, films and TV shows this year? We’ve got you covered.

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Jan 1st 2014, 8:45 PM

Voices

Extract: Colm McCann on Dublin, Ulysses and friendship

“The book that I return to, when I return to Ireland, is always Ulysses… Death takes away a lot of things, but it can’t ever take away our stories.”

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Dec 27th 2013, 7:30 PM

# congrats are in order

John Banville to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Irish Book Awards

The Booker Prize winner will join the ranks of previous winners John McGahern, Seamus Heaney and Edna O’Brien.

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Nov 18th 2013, 12:58 PM

# Books

Roddy Doyle, Eamon Dunphy and Claudia Carroll among book of the year nominees

The Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards nominations feature a number of recognisable names.

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Nov 1st 2013, 10:42 AM

# Literature

Irish author Colum McCann’s moving ode to Robbie Keane

The Dubliner’s work featured on the latest episode of MLS Insider.

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Oct 25th 2013, 9:38 PM

# Nobel Prize

Alice Munro declines Nobel awards invite due to poor health

The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is due to pick up a prize of US $1.2 million.

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Oct 18th 2013, 6:10 PM

# Winning

Eleanor Catton becomes the youngest ever winner of the Booker Prize

The 28-year-old New Zealander won the fiction award for her 832-page murder mystery The Luminaries.

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Oct 15th 2013, 10:54 PM

# Nobel Prize

Canadian Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize, doesn't answer her phone

The 82-year-old Canadian has become just the 13th woman to win the prize in 112 years.

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Oct 10th 2013, 2:12 PM

# RIP

Author Tom Clancy dies aged 66

The bestselling author and creator of the Jack Ryan character died at a hospital in Baltimore last night.

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Oct 2nd 2013, 3:52 PM

# Books

Dublin: One City One Book choice for 2014 is revealed...

This year’s choice follows Strumpet City, which was 2013′s book.

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Sep 13th 2013, 9:35 AM

# Capital

Literary history of Dublin brought to life with new Storymap app

The map was officially launched yesterday evening, and includes poets and writers both new and well-known.

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Sep 6th 2013, 7:45 AM

# Seamus Heaney

In pictures: The funeral of Seamus Heaney

Heaney, a Derry native, had called Dublin his home for the past number of decades.

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Sep 2nd 2013, 9:03 PM

# RIP

The life and times of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney in pictures

Remembering the life of Seamus Heaney in pictures.

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Aug 30th 2013, 1:00 PM

# RIP

Poet Seamus Heaney passes away aged 74

The Nobel laureate recently suffered from ill health, and was reported have collapsed earlier this week.

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Aug 30th 2013, 11:11 AM

# the catcher in the rye

JD Salinger may publish five more books despite his death in 2010

The reclusive author of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ last published in 1965 but a documentary has claimed he left detailed instructions for his estate to publish five more books between 2015 and 2020.

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Aug 26th 2013, 9:47 PM

Voices

Column: To be a successful writer nowadays, you have to embrace social media

Writers from the days of print-only publications are still running to catch up with digital revolution, which has levelled the playing field and created almost-boundless opportunities for those with ambition, writes Stephen Downes.

Aug 17th 2013, 7:00 PM

# i got chills

Truly terrifying - horror series Goosebumps turns 21 this year

Does that mean we’re old? SCREAM.

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Aug 9th 2013, 8:45 PM

# Man Booker Prize

Three Irish authors make Man Booker Prize longlist

This year’s exciting longlist features 13 authors from across the world – including three Irish writers.

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Jul 23rd 2013, 12:47 PM

# Sold

Beckett manuscript sells for €1.1 million

The 800 page working manuscript is of the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s first major novel ‘Murphy’.

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Jul 10th 2013, 4:31 PM

# Literature

Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane wins the prestigious IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award

Kevin Barry is the third Irish author to win the coveted €100,000 literary prize, taking up good company with previous winners Colm Tóibín and Colum McCann

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Jun 6th 2013, 8:38 PM

# Samuel Beckett

Original manuscript of Samuel Beckett's first novel for sale

The handwritten rough draft of the modernist writer’s first novel – described as “one of the most important 20th century working manuscripts” – is expected to fetch up to €1.4 million.

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Jun 3rd 2013, 2:18 PM

# IMPAC

Ireland's Kevin Barry up for €100k literary award

Other nominees include Michel Houellebecq, Haruki Murakami and Andrew Miller.

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Apr 9th 2013, 8:36 AM

# Books

Author Iain Banks has late stage cancer, says he has less than a year to live

The Scottish novelist said that he did not expect to live beyond a year.

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Apr 3rd 2013, 4:03 PM

Voices

Column: Why Irish ‘chick lit’ is the true barometer of our time

Following in the footsteps of Maeve Binchy, Irish female authors are capturing what really matters to people today, writes novelist Michelle Jackson.

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Jan 1st 2013, 7:30 PM

# get writin'

Want to be a writer? New programme urges people to put pen to paper

Three successful Irish authors will offer tips to budding writers through YouTube videos as part of the new National Emerging Writer Programme.

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Jan 1st 2013, 7:00 PM

# gentle persuasion

Irish ads of yore that we don't mind at all

There are no ads on RTÉ today… but if there were, we wouldn’t be charmed if they were like these ones from the turn of the 19th century.

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Dec 25th 2012, 11:30 AM

# Not Ok

8 of the worst sex scenes you'll read this year

The nominees for the 2012 Bad Sex Awards have been announced… Brace yourself.

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Nov 21st 2012, 11:05 AM

# Books

Eight Irish writers on longlist for Impac book award

Let’s not get too excited though – there’s 154 books in total on the longlist for the world’s most valuable literary prize.

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Nov 12th 2012, 8:56 AM

# Winning

Hilary Mantel wins Booker Prize for second time

Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize for her book Bring Up the Bodies, beating off competition from Will Self.

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Oct 16th 2012, 10:19 PM

# Pop quiz

Can you identify these Irish literary quotations?

Go on, give it a go…

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Oct 13th 2012, 9:15 AM

# need to know

The Evening Fix... now with added Christopher Walken

Here’s the things we learned, shared and loved today.

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Oct 11th 2012, 7:52 PM

# Nobel

Mo Yan of China wins Nobel Literature Prize

China’s Mo Yan has won the Nobel Literature Prize.

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Oct 11th 2012, 12:43 PM

# Shakeswho?

One third of British children have never heard of Shakespeare - survey

The survey also found that 5 per cent of people aged 18 to 34 believe that the playwright’s most famous work is Cinderella…

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Oct 1st 2012, 10:21 AM

Voices

Orla Tinsley: Honesty about death and purpose in life

The Seamus Heaney poem ‘Mid-term Break’ always resonated with cystic fibrosis rights campaigner Orla Tinsley – and made her realise that life, though fragile, can be “calculated and powerful”.

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Sep 23rd 2012, 1:00 PM

# TV

Gabriel Byrne to play lead in TV adaptation of John Banville crime series

Banville said Byrne is the “perfect” choice to star in the series – which he penned under the pseudonym Benjamin Black.

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Aug 27th 2012, 8:56 AM

# Joyce Tower

Joyce Tower set to reopen thanks to volunteer support

Staffing issues at Fáilte Ireland meant that the James Joyce site closed this summer.

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Aug 20th 2012, 1:50 PM

# Your shout

Open thread: What Maeve Binchy book do you recommend?

Readers of the late, great Irish author have been reminiscing on the Binchy novel that touched them – which one would you give to a friend who had never read her work?

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Jul 31st 2012, 12:00 PM