EVERY morning, Paul Howard and his dog set off from Dublin at 7am to drive to Avoca, where he spends the day writing.

Today marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death. Olivia Kelleher looks at why modern audiences are still very much enamoured with her.

On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, Olivia Kelleher, talks to Trinity lecturer Daragh Downes about the woman, her talent and her legacy

The last of the great Anglo-Irish writers, Molly Keane, who died 20 years ago today, has been the chief focus of the 13th Cork World Book Fest — a six-day literary jamboree currently packing out both the Central Library and Triskel Christchurch.

Vincent Browne is a national treasure. Whether he’s leading the charge on to other people’s property or telling his guest to shut up, he’s an icon.

The strong advice from education experts to exam students is to sleep and eat well over the next two weeks.

The literary stars came out last night for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards in Dublin.

Having an ‘online presence’, like a website, a blog, or being on Facebook or Twitter, is now a must for authors, says Sue Leonard, to keep publishers keen

Hopes, plans, dreams — all scaled back yesterday at the Aviva.

Legal action has not diluted Anglo: The Musical’s fierce caricatures of the players in our economic crash, says Padraic Killeen

Former rugby great Cllr Gerry McLoughlin (Lab), on being elected Mayor of Limerick last night, showed he is not a Ross O’Carroll Kelly type when it comes to bragging about sporting achievements.

What I do: 2012 has been good. I finished art college last year expecting to have to work in an unrelated field, but ended up working in a gallery and as a freelance arts writer.

It might considered too painful a subject for parody by some folk but the country’s baddest of bad banks is set to get a new lease of life with Anglo — The Musical.

DUBLIN 4’s best-loved Celtic Tiger cub Ross O’Carroll Kelly’s latest adventure has been crowned the country’s all-time favourite book.

THE outcome of a public vote for the best Irish book of the last decade may not be revealed until next week, but sales through one website alone would make John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas a hands down winner.

Railway chiefs are on track to celebrate Dublin’s Dart system which marks its 25th anniversary in service today.

THE choice of short-listed titles for this year’s Irish Book Awards features an extraordinary mix of authors and the outcome should be extraordinary too, because, for the first time, the public can vote for their favourite books.

THE book which last year claimed a senior politician, an airline pilot and a nun had admitted to taking cocaine has been shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards.

IT’S loike totally thespian!

The first-ever Polish language book by an Irish publisher will be released today to cater for the estimated 200,000 Poles living and working in the country.

PAUL McGrath, John Boyne, Patrick McCabe and Paul Howard, aka Ross O’Carroll Kelly, were among the winners at the prestigious Irish Book Awards 2007 announced at a glittering ceremony in Trinity College last night.

CRANK up the computer, turn up the tunes and get writing to see if you can be Ireland’s next top music journalist.