One of the most precious gifts cancer has given me is a deep friendship with this extraordinary Irish man

All at Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann are saddened by the untimely passing of writer and documentary maker Manchán Magan.  Through all his work, Magan was authentic in exploring and using many languages – ...

2 October August 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the abduction of poet Sarah Clancy, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla. The flotilla was ...

Submissions are now open for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025, judged by poets Sasha Dugdale, Seán Hewitt and Zaffar Kunial

Woman, Life, Freedom

David Toms writes: If the port city of Trondheim in Norway seems remote today it is because we have become so used to travelling over land or by air rather than by waterways. In the age of sail, Trond...

The writer takes over the laureateship from author Colm Tóibín

The writer takes over the laureateship from author Colm Tóibín

Gaza is the first democratically approved genocide – two power blocs, the EU and US, consent to it. Their representatives may not have sat in a war cabinet where a genocide policy was discussed, but t...

Here's what it's not: a ­bromance, despite all the backslapping and clenched fist poses. Here's what it is: potentially deliberate interference in a sovereign state's domestic affairs...

14 March 2025 : The members of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) consortium and partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform are deeply concerned about the ong...

A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025

Nobel Laureates from across disciplines around the world, call for the full and unconditional release of laureate Narges Mohammadi, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023.

“It is unacceptable that the authorities in Mexico, the country with the highest rate of deadly violence against the press on the continent, allow digital harassment of journalists. Even more alarming...

Write a letter of solidarity to imprisoned writer Amanda Echanis

Sligo in 2021, published There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, translated by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert

How Many Miles To Babylon author remembered by Michael D Higgins and fellow writers

Irish novelist Jennifer Johnston was born in Dublin, the daughter of actor and director Shelah Richards and writer Denis Johnston. In this episode, she explains how

Online 8-week playwriting course with Gavin Kostick. An immersion in practical discussions and exercises for playwriting. Starts Wednesday 26 March 2025.

Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine Edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan Fire: Brigid and the Sacred Feminine is an anthology of stories, poems and images based on the figure of Brigid (Goddess for some, saint for others) from Irish and international writers and artists. Curated and edited by Niamh Boyce and Shauna Gilligan, it is described by Niamh Wycherley as ‘a deeply personal, evocative and at times blissfully painful testimony to Brigid’s enduring legacy.’

While Johnston was initially associated with the Big House literary tradition, she was above all a minutely observant chronicler of family dysfunction in Ireland

She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Book Awards in 2012.

President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to award-winning Irish novelist Jennifer Johnston who has died at the age of 95.

While Johnston was initially associated with the Big House literary tradition, she was above all a minutely observant chronicler of family dysfunction in Ireland

“We’re not here to entertain you.” Organized by Edizioni Alegre and the GKN Factory Collective in collaboration with Arci Firenze and the Workers’ Mutual Aid Society Insorgiamo. Directed by Alberto […...

The Free Narges Coalition has received worrying information regarding the intention to return Narges Mohammadi to prison in Iran. The Steering Committee remains highly concerned about her health condi...