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Angela Smith writes about Eileen O’Shaughnessy, George Orwell’s wife. Eileen Maud O’Shaughnessy Blair was a remarkable woman who, in her brief 39 years, helped ...

Mo Fanning, author of the forthcoming Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine, on the process of how ‘discovery happens’ . . . A book won’t take off because someone sees it on Instagram and ...

On St Patrick’s Day this year, we released the first single from ‘One Good Sparkle’ – a spoken word album of Pat Ingoldsby’s poetry. The track, ‘Words to the ...

Chris Dresser, novelist and screenwriter, on the facts behind his fiction. Surviving Treachery: Third Book in the Willjohn Trilogy is out now. At school in South Africa I was good at sport and ...

Perpetual Motion: how a polyglot life between worlds shaped Vanessa Fabiano’s first book, Chinese on the Beach . . . When I first went to China in 1994, I had no intention of writing a book ...

Brian Gilhooly with a tale for the ages: featuring his Ma, The Fugitive and a little corrugated galvanised hut down below in Rosslare Strand. The year is 1968 and my parents, Mick & Joan ...

On the Craft and Adventure of Writing, with five invaluable suggestions for writers. I said a lot about writing in my new book, Start With a Word: On ...

This week in the Irish bestselling books, we’ve got The Truth About Ruby Cooper by Liz Nugent still heading the charts, with Colm Tóibín’s new The News From Dublin in a close second ...

The Whistleblower Cafe and Bookshop is located on South Anne street and has four floors. It’s described as a space for artists, writers, whistleblowers and those who want to create change. Job ...

Competition deadline: 10th May 2026 The Belvedere New Writing Prize offers an opportunity for new and emerging writers to win €200 and publication in Volume 2 of The Belvedere this autumn. There ...

(Dec 2025) of his novel ‘Don Eugenio.’ Over those years he won numerous screenwriting awards and also directed and produced a ...