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Books

Yesterday
26th April 2025
Quiz: How much do you know about these best-selling books?
This month
April 2025
Amazon.ie's first month has little impact on Irish bookshops - but sellers fear long-term threat
World Autism Month: Life as a Second Language — an excerpt from new book, Wired Our Own Way
Naoise Dolan
Pop music history: 'Women music managers were few and far between'
Dr Michael Murphy
Last month
March 2025
Books: An extract from Róisín Lanigan's new novel, 'I want to go home, but I'm already there'
Róisín Lanigan
Bookshop owner: 'The new Amazon.ie is bad news for Irish bookshops and other SMEs'
Sarah Kenny
Do you borrow books from the library?
Quiz: How much do you know about children's books?
This year
2025
Irish nurses in the NHS: A new book charts the lives of Ireland's nurses who worked in the UK
Louise Ryan, Grainne McPolin & Neha Doshi
Chieftains, diplomats and Joyce: Joseph O'Connor looks at the Irish connections to Rome
Joseph O'Connor
Conor Murray to release autobiography in September
13 exciting international novels to look out for in 2025
Last year
2024
22 Irish books to look out for in 2025
From Intermezzo to The Alternatives: 10 great Irish books that stood out in 2024
'Heart, Be at Peace' by Donal Ryan named the An Post Irish Book of the Year
The Journal authors win prize at Irish Book Awards for The Last Disco
Excerpt: Our food history lies in the folds and crevices as much as the grand narratives
Dorothy Cashman & Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire
Excerpt: How Dearg Mór tried to invade Ireland and their battle with the Fianna
Cormac K.H. O'Malley & Patrick J. Mahoney
Atlas of the Irish civil war: How republicans mobilised Irish America over the Treaty
Hélène O’Keefe, John Crowley, Donal Ó Drisceoil, John Borgonovo and Mike Murphy
The Spanish Armada: Myths, missteps and shipwrecks on Ireland’s shores
Michael B. Barry
Harassed and called paedophiles: Librarians describe being targeted by anti-LGBT+ groups
Some librarians fear being physically attacked, according to new research.
Several libraries have been targeted by protesters because they supply LGBTQIA-related reading material
"There is somebody looking you straight in the face and calling you a child abuser," one librarian said
Brighton Bombing, 40 years on: 'What saved Thatcher was the path it took'
Rory Carroll
My story: Being separated from my twin and parents from birth had a huge impact on me
Sadie Harpur
Did your favourite bookshop make the Bookshop of the Year longlist?
The 'New Irish' aren't so new - people of colour have lived here for centuries
Mick Clifford: 'They were convinced they knew what had happened to Una and who was responsible'
Mick Clifford
Hayley Kilgallon on the history of ladies' GAA: 'Women were thought naturally weaker back then'
Hayley Kilgallon
Poll: Have you read the Ross O'Carroll Kelly books?
Extract: While researching something else, I came across Brian Friel's story - I was fascinated
Kelly Matthews
‘Swallows up competition’: Galway bookshop ‘fearful’ for sector’s future ahead of Amazon.ie launch
50 years of Guaranteed Irish: 'Within two months over 200 companies had joined'
Enda MacMahon
Travel: I had just retired and could see the future and it sucked, so I decided to travel
Peter Murtagh
Author: My recovery from illness helped me create characters for my books
Jenny Ireland
Jordan Lees: Dreaming up the enchanted world of The Whisperwicks was a journey in itself
Jordan Lees
Extract: 'The destruction Davy Tweed brought to my life followed me like the shadow of a demon'
Amanda Brown
Two Irish novels among six books shortlisted for international Dublin Literary Award
Clara Dillon: I love stories about darkness lurking beneath a veneer of domestic civilisation
Clara Dillon
New novel from acclaimed Irish author Sally Rooney to be published in September
Handling heartbreak: 'Rejection does not make you a reject, it just means they weren't for you'
Mark Fennell