Catherine Conlon

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

An Irishwoman - one of opera's rising stars - has found herself at the centre a debate on body image in the arts world after opera reviewers dismissed her latest performance based on her weight.

Leaving Certificate students continue to rely quite heavily on predicting which poets will be examined and memorising prepared answers, reports suggest.

There are a couple of distinguishing aspects to Dublin’s largest book festival.

A Sixpenny Song

Losses continued to mount at one of Ireland’s most celebrated book retail firms in 2011, figures show.

Ireland’s top writers moved from the page to the stage in style to accept prizes at the 2012 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards at the RDS.

Jennifer Johnston was anything but confident when writing her new novel she tells Caroline O’Doherty , despite having firm views on its subject matter

CIARA has always written. But she started in earnest when her second child went to nursery school.

SARAH HARTE has always wanted to be a writer.

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

WRITER and Derry resident Jennifer Johnston, speaking in recent weeks, sounded a depressing note of warning about the North.

BOOKER Prize winner John Banville was further honoured last night when he scooped the top award at Writers’ Week, in Listowel, Co Kerry.

RECLUSIVE author Annie Proulx arrived in Ireland yesterday to open a literary festival and will spend the next few days in west Cork researching a new book.

THE appearance of poets Derek Mahon and Adrienne Rich on yesterday’s English higher level Paper II was welcomed in Kilkenny, where students had made preparations with those in mind.

One of Ireland’s top literature festivals kicks off today, attracting renowned writers from South Africa, Poland, Norway, the US and many other countries.

Playwright and novelist Thomas Kilroy today received a prestigious award to celebrate a lifetime of literary achievement.

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.

Ireland's top writers have come together to voice their opposition to the war through the power of the pen.