Best-selling children’s author Eoin Colfer has been recruited by the South-East’s partnership of cities and towns to act as an ambassador for their bid to become the 2020 European Capital of Culture.

Artemis Fowl creator Eoin Colfer was happy to switch to drama for a play in his hometown, writes Marjorie Brennan

A mix of the old and the new are among the books, plays, and films that young teens can study for the first Junior Cycle Student Award in 2017.

Crime pays — at least the fictional sort — for Ireland’s bestselling children’s author, Eoin Colfer as new figures show accumulated profits at his firm jumped 134% to €1.669m last year.

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Eoin Colfer graduates to adult fiction with his latest novel Plugged, and it’s obvious there’s a lot more where that came from, writes Caroline O’Doherty

HUNDREDS of events are being held across the country in a bid to cultivate a life-long love among children for the wondrous world of books.

A FORMER schoolteacher who has swapped the blackboard for the big screen is now bidding to have the film adaptation of one of his best-selling books shot in his native Wexford.

IRELAND will lose out on the biggest Hollywood film earmarked for the country unless the Government retains lucrative tax breaks for the industry.

Nick Hornby's How To Be Good has been named the UK's favourite novel of the year at the WH Smith Book Awards.