Alan O’Riordan reviews Ulysses and Tribes.

THIS is such a boy’s own yarn about a seafaring adventure that it could be called Code of Honour or Men of Courage with that gusty and gutsy prose of ‘waves to the left of me, waves to the right’ but because this is a new Dermot Bolger novel it isn’t just guts and glory, there is an attentiveness to the emotional lives of all the men aboard.

FINGLAS native and quintessential Dub, Dermot Bolger, has dedicated his life to literature in both a public and a private manner. 

Dermot Bolger talks to Tony Clayton-Lea about his new book Tanglewood and how he believes that the introduction of free secondary education in the late 1960s was at the root of the 1980s burst of Irish creativity.

2014 has been a remarkable year for Irish writing by any standards.

The Arts Council has published the full list of nominees for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.

There have been concerts, cover albums, books and films paying homage to his oeuvre and now an entire festival dedicated to the work of Leonard Cohen is coming to Ireland.

Irish-based digital services agency Lucidity Digital is set to double its workforce in the next two years after re-branding as Isobar.

The apparent impenetrability of Finnegans Wake ensures it is ignored by most readers. Alan O’Riordan meets a number of people hoping to address this neglect.

More than three decades after winning her first Hennessy literary prize, writer Deirdre Madden has been inducted into the Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame.

STANDING up, as she’s about to leave, Louise Phillips, author of the just-named Irish Crime Novel of the Year The Doll’s House may have cried as she told me about the dark place where her novels originate.

Mary Murray tells Pádraic Killeen about Fishamble’s latest short form project

It’s a case of the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker all pulling out the stops this week as their local village hosts one of the biggest amateur drama festivals in the country.

The Greek Anthology Book XVII

THIS year, James Joyce’s works came out of copyright.

Irish Examiner sports writer Ewan MacKenna has been named as Sports Reporter of the Year at the annual National Newspapers of Ireland awards ceremony in Dublin yesterday.

MUSIC NEWS: Cork music fans got some good news earlier in the week when it was announced that the Savoy will at last re-open on Oct 19.

MUSIC NEWS: Thom Yorke of Radiohead has unveiled some tracks from his Atoms For Peace project during a DJ set in the US.

A last word on Con Houlihan?

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has led tributes to popular novelist Maeve Binchy, who has died at the age of 72.

Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland project affords ordinary people the opportunity to speak their minds, writes Pádraic Killeen

ABOUT 3,000 book enthusiasts are set to descend on Ennis today for the fifth annual Ennis Book Club Festival.

THE Very Merry Mice by Jack Tickle (Little Tiger; €10.66) is a sturdy book for toddlers. The playful mice are having fun during the lead-up to Christmas. Each spread features a surprise festive pop-up. Fun for little hands.

THE CURTAIN came down on this year’s Electric Picnic early this morning after British trip hop legends Massive Attack were cheered off the stage after their 10.30pm gig.

A WOMAN of words could have wanted no better send-off than Nuala O’Faolain received.

A NUMBER of internationally renowned authors have been confirmed as participants in the Ennis Book Club Festival 2008, details of which were announced today.

WRITER Sebastian Barry has won this year’s €10,000 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award for his novel A Long Long Way, it was announced at the opening of Listowel Writers’ Week yesterday evening.

DOUBLE Booker Prize winner JM Coetzee will be among the literary luminaries attending Listowel Writers’ Week from May 31 to June 4 next.

A decade of Irish writers will be honoured tonight with the launch of a major anthology in Dublin.

Home-grown Irish talent will take centre stage at this year’s annual Dublin Writers Festival, it emerged tonight.

The 2004 Hennessy New Irish Writer Award, in association with The Sunday Tribune and Four Seasons Hotel Dublin, was presented this evening to Newbridge teacher Terry Donnelly for his First Fiction short story 'Singing Dumb'.

Oscar-winning film director Neil Jordan will tonight induct Butcher Boy author Pat McCabe into the 2004 Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame.

A series of nine specially-commissioned monologues to highlight the issue of Amnesty’s Stop Violence Against Women campaign will be performed next week in Dublin.