You were standing in the magnolia light that came through the closed kitchen window. You were holding a cup of coffee close to your chin and wearing a bracelet with blue beads. The flat was silent aro...

Forty years after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the former diplomat still sees Sunningdale as the peace deal that got way

The 2025 Seamus Heaney Lecture by Sir Simon Schama, with readings by Leanne Best

This book contains Heaney’s unpublished poems plus all those from his single books of poetry published

By far the most-read post on this blog has been a very simple one – a list of Irish literary magazines. The original post I compiled in 2022, and an updated version in 2023, have clocked up o…

Banshee Press is open for book-length submissions of fiction, poetry and memoir from 1-15 October 2025 . All submitted manuscripts will be considered for our 2027 and 2028 lists (and perhaps…

The Scottish government will protect an additional 60,000-square-kilometres of offshore seabed from bottom trawling, but NGOs want more.

The punk poet has no smartphone, no email, not even a computer. Everyone should try it, he says

The writer takes over the laureateship from author Colm Tóibín

Inklings submissions open from 1st to 31st August

Come join us for the launch of "Ireland in Iceland" where we'll explore the fascinating connections between these two beautiful countries

Annual survey of young people’s reading habits which began two decades ago shows its lowest-ever result, most pronounced among boys aged 11 to 16

Charities have broadly welcomed the plans, saying they hope it is a sign of more to come.

Strange to recall, but for 20 years from the early 1980s, a short, grinning, bearded mischief-maker dominated the ITV prime-time schedules. Jeremy Beadle developed, produced and co-presented Game for…

The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies; Lovers of Franz K by Burhan Sönmez; Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski; Waist Deep by Linea Maja Ernst

The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize, supported by Atlantic Philanthropies.

In Hillbilly Elegy, his best-selling 2016 memoir of “a family and a culture in crisis,” J.D. Vance, now vice-president of the United States, gives an