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Book review: Force of three intrepid women
Book review: Force of three intrepid women
By weaving three biographies together in one publication, Julia Cooke has created an all thriller, no filler read

Sat, 16 May, 2026

Book review: Memories through lens of the body
Book review: Memories through lens of the body
'Hungry' is a compulsive, inspiring read, from a writer who appears to have yet more to offer in terms of literary contribution

Sat, 16 May, 2026

Book review: Memoir dives into an eccentric Belfast childhood
Book review: Memoir dives into an eccentric Belfast childhood
Born in Belfast in 1972, Sinéad Morrisey was raised in the shadow of the Troubles, but somehow apart from them, thanks to her parents’ passionate belief in communism

Sat, 25 Apr, 2026

The New Yorker Festival 2015 - Andrew Jarecki Talks With Patrick Radden Keefe
Book review: Family’s quest for truth behind Zac Brettler’s mysterious death
'London Falling' goes beyond a meticulous investigation into death of the 19-year-old and looks at a city which has a porous boundary with the criminal underworld

Fri, 17 Apr, 2026

Melissa Auf Der Maur Discusses Her New Book "Even The Good Girls Will Cry"
Book review: Lifestyle distorted by addiction
This deceptively compelling memoir isn’t simply another dutiful reflection on a life spent in and around music: this is one woman’s quest for certainty

Sat, 04 Apr, 2026

Cork City v Wexford - SSE Airtricity Men's First Division
Book review: Roy Keane’s influence on modern Ireland
Did Roy Keane influence the change in Ireland, or did the changes in Ireland enable Roy Keane to be the man he has become?

Sat, 04 Apr, 2026

Book review: A gay man at war with himself who fought to free his country
Book review: A gay man at war with himself who fought to free his country
Dying at the end of a rope in an English jail, rebel Roger Casement displayed the courage that defined him

Fri, 03 Apr, 2026

Six For Your Radar: Triskel jazz, The Drama, Dónal Dineen
Six For Your Radar: Triskel jazz, The Drama, Dónal Dineen
The follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale also hits our screens 

Thu, 02 Apr, 2026

Book review: Thematic scope to why Mesopotamia matters
Book review: Thematic scope to why Mesopotamia matters
Anyone wishing to dip their toes in the wonders of Mesopotamia for the first time would do well to start with 'Between Two Rivers'

Sat, 21 Mar, 2026

Book review: Uncovering the roots of slavery
Book review: Uncovering the roots of slavery
'Searching for My Slave Roots' is dedicated to Malik Al Nasir’s ancestors. Some were forcibly transported from West Africa to sugar plantations in the Caribbean

Sat, 21 Mar, 2026

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Book review: White House’s layers of deceit
No US president or politician emerges from this book with any credit. According to the author, it is impossible to get elected to power in the US without becoming totally compromised

Sat, 14 Mar, 2026

Gisele Pelicot petition
Book review: ‘All I wanted was a quiet life’
'A Hymn to Life' zigzags between two narratives: from Gisele Pelicot's difficult childhood to meeting Dominique Pelicot and their 50 years of marriage and her discovery of his crimes

Sat, 14 Mar, 2026

Book review: The Irish pub: Evolving and reinvented itself through time
Book review: The Irish pub: Evolving and reinvented itself through time
Consisting of 20 scholarly but accessible essays, the book explores its subject through the prism of history, design, sociology, literature, and psychology

Fri, 06 Mar, 2026

NEWS
Book review: Fight to discover your identity
Paul Cullen had always been fascinated by the unanswered questions about his origins, but for many years pushed them to the back of his mind for fear of upsetting the people who had raised him

Sat, 21 Feb, 2026

Goetz Victims on IRT
Book review: Violent and divided, the US of a bygone era is sadly familiar
This book is long, at times dense, and tough to digest, but ultimately a worthwhile read — a story of an America that hasn't changed that much at all

Fri, 20 Feb, 2026

"Libri Come 2024 – Umanità" Literature Festival
Book review: Final Julian Barnes book an exemplary endnote
'Departure(s)' is most certainly not a novel; the book is more akin to correspondence, a signing off from a career which contains many fine novels and numerous awards

Sat, 14 Feb, 2026

Book review: The Famine years in West Kerry
Book review: The Famine years in West Kerry
Bryan MacMahon’s descriptions of events between 1845 and 1849 leave no doubt that the Famine was as bad as any famine witnessed in the television era

Sat, 14 Feb, 2026

Book extract: ‘Turnover tax’ in 1963 was fraught with political risk
Book extract: ‘Turnover tax’ in 1963 was fraught with political risk
When finance minister James Ryan introduced a new sales tax of 2.5% on all goods and services it was the most significant change to the Irish taxation system since independence

Fri, 13 Feb, 2026

Book review: How criminals are making a killing
Book review: How criminals are making a killing
Never a better time to be a criminal, says author Oliver Bullough, saying around €50bn a year washes through Europe’s money laundering schemes

Sat, 31 Jan, 2026

Book review: Fresh look at old battle scars
Book review: Fresh look at old battle scars
'The War of Independence in East Cork' makes an important contribution to the understanding of what occurred in East Cork during the 1919 to 1921 period

Sat, 24 Jan, 2026

Book review: Radical shift in political culture
Book review: Radical shift in political culture
While the  focus of 'Abundance' is the US, the problems the authors consider — in housing, transportation, energy and healthcare — apply to most developed economies

Sat, 17 Jan, 2026

"Kinds Of Kindness" New York Premiere
Book review: False dawns and incremental gains of a writer’s slow recovery through drugs
The general argument in 'Breaking Awake' seems to be in favour of across-the-board legalisation of drugs

Sat, 17 Jan, 2026

Book review: Going off-piste for success
Book review: Going off-piste for success
For those who write or aspire to write, there is enough quality information in 'Joyride' for it be considered something of an instructional manual

Sat, 17 Jan, 2026

Book review: Rare insight into an obscure Irish traditional music icon
Book review: Rare insight into an obscure Irish traditional music icon
This fine biography does that most rare of things: it brings to life, on the printed page, exactly how Tommie Potts felt the music that so defines him. And why

Fri, 16 Jan, 2026

First Part Of Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Report Released
Book review: Surviving the ordeal that was the Post Office Horizon scandal
Jo Hamilton — one of the victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal — has written a personal account of the UK’s most widespread miscarriage of justice

Sat, 10 Jan, 2026

Book review: Imagining a not so wee North
Book review: Imagining a not so wee North
If we are moving towards a 32-county Ireland anything that prepares the ground for the kind of difficult, uneasy sacrifices needed to make that evolution a success is welcome

Sat, 10 Jan, 2026

Book review: 'Escape from the Anthill' is both illuminating and wise
Book review: 'Escape from the Anthill' is both illuminating and wise
The essays in this reissued collection are told with great wit and on a variety of fascinating subjects where there is neither a dull sentence nor a careless thought

Sat, 10 Jan, 2026

France Sarkozy Legion of Honor
Book review: When a president goes to prison
The overarching sentiment of this book is that a former French president should not have to suffer the indignity of being classed with with other detainees inside Paris’ La Sante prison

Sat, 03 Jan, 2026

Book review: A particular kind of courage
Book review: A particular kind of courage
The narrative of 'Seized' is vulnerably raw and deeply human, documenting not only illness but the endurance required to live alongside it

Sat, 03 Jan, 2026

Book review: That was then, this is now in mingling of the personal and the polemical
Book review: That was then, this is now in mingling of the personal and the polemical
Westerners dismiss their ancestors, individually and en masse, as 'racists, thieves, and murderers', but this brown-skinned woman from North Africa has come to tell whitey to get over himself

Sat, 03 Jan, 2026

GERMANY-LITERATURE-PRIZE
Book review: Reflections on being German
'Sanderling' is a rare book: meticulous, honest, unpretentious, interrogative, and utterly compelling

Sat, 27 Dec, 2025

Book review: Short life of Mary mattered
Book review: Short life of Mary mattered
All trace of 14-year-old Mary Doherty faded from view days after her brutal murder in 1844 yet her presence is evident on every single page of this moving book

Sat, 27 Dec, 2025

Book review: Touching memoir of EB sufferer’s life
Book review: Touching memoir of EB sufferer’s life
When she was born, Emma’s parents were told she wouldn’t survive infancy yet, despite countless obstacles, aged 41, she is now the oldest Irish person living with butterfly skin

Sat, 27 Dec, 2025

Poetry review: Poems where the seemingly mundane can reveal itself as spiritually radiant
Poetry review: Poems where the seemingly mundane can reveal itself as spiritually radiant
'Jonah and Me' is a chance for readers to sit with poet John F Deane as he reflects on an immense career, a life lived in service of his art and his faith

Sat, 27 Dec, 2025

DNA structure anniversary
Book review: Rich and rewarding biography of a brainiac
Francis Crick was a prolific writer, always happy to advance theories, and biographer Matthew Cobb continues that work of sharing the ideas that try to map our world and existence

Sat, 27 Dec, 2025

Dynasties, disruptors, and Guinness: 2025's best business books
Dynasties, disruptors, and Guinness: 2025's best business books
From an entrepreneur-turned-presidential candidate to the House of Huawei and the succession drama of the Guinness brewery, there's a lot to learn from this year's crop of business books

Fri, 26 Dec, 2025

Book review: Honest coming of age memoir
Book review: Honest coming of age memoir
The book is written in a careful, compelling, conversational style accessible to its intended teenage audience, and copies ought to sit in every secondary school library in the country

Sat, 20 Dec, 2025

Dublin Street Traders
Book review: Dublin’s street traders come alive, alive-O
Susan Marie Martin’s fascinating new book charts the resilience and determination of generations of street traders

Sat, 20 Dec, 2025

Book review: Erudite, witty, and illuminating read from one of Ireland’s great thinkers
Book review: Erudite, witty, and illuminating read from one of Ireland’s great thinkers
In his introduction to this collection, Liam Hannaway notes that 'Talking Heads' is a 'bracing read, as one would expect from a poet who is always pushing boundaries'

Sat, 20 Dec, 2025

POV of young woman relaxing at home reading a book lying on sofa
Anja Murray: My favourite wildlife and environment books of 2025
Photography books, community stories, fresh perspectives and inspiring solutions to environmental crises — plenty to choose from with this selection

Wed, 17 Dec, 2025

Beginner’s pluck: Consultant in paediatrics Suzanne Crowe
Beginner’s pluck: Consultant in paediatrics Suzanne Crowe
This wonderful memoir charts Suzanne’s path to medicine — her training, her doubts, and her highlights with numerous poignant stories of the children in her care

Sat, 13 Dec, 2025

Book review: ‘Fly, Wild Swans’ is a  poignant, powerful memoir
Book review: ‘Fly, Wild Swans’ is a  poignant, powerful memoir
A subtext of this book is the West’s hypocrisy towards China: securing favourable trade agreements with the country dwarfs ostensible concerns about human rights

Sat, 13 Dec, 2025

Books of the year: 2025’s best offerings that highlight political strife, pain, and injustice
Books of the year: 2025’s best offerings that highlight political strife, pain, and injustice
JP O’Malley reveals his picks for books that tell true stories of those who lived in difficult and challenging times, both in the present day and the past

Fri, 12 Dec, 2025

Books of the year: Three titles that tugged at the very fabric of Irish history
Books of the year: Three titles that tugged at the very fabric of Irish history
Diarmuid O’Donovan reveals his must-read releases this year for those riveted by Ireland’s past

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025

Book review: Collection provides new insight into mind of acclaimed writer
Book review: Collection provides new insight into mind of acclaimed writer
One of the collection’s great joys is reading the author’s accounts of how other writers have shaped her as an artist and a person

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025

Beginner's pluck: Retired doctor Geraldine Osborne 
Beginner's pluck: Retired doctor Geraldine Osborne 
Atmospheric memoir sees couple take their three small children to tiny Arctic settlement in 1989, from where they adventured across the frozen sea

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025

Russia Obit Gorbachev
Book review: Vernacular voices in story of Soviet Union’s implosion
Author weaves lives of die-hard apparatchiks with the dreams of young Russian musicians more inspired by Dylan than Dostoevsky, more moved by Lennon than Lenin

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025

Tupac Shakur
Book review: Intriguing read probes many faces of controversial rapper
By the end of this excellent biography, you may not like Tupac Shakur, but you certainly know him

Sat, 06 Dec, 2025

Book review: The battle to birth a republic
Book review: The battle to birth a republic
In 'From Crown to Harp', the story of Ireland’s development from dominion to republic is diligently outlined by David McCullagh

Sat, 29 Nov, 2025

Book review: Behind Michael J Fox’s iconic double act
Book review: Behind Michael J Fox’s iconic double act
This book is more than a memoir, it’s a piece of film history, told with humour and fun about one of the world’s most beloved films

Sat, 29 Nov, 2025

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