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Lucy Caldwell: 'It took me more than a decade of trying to write short stories before any of them worked. It was long and gruelling' – The Irish Times

Award-winning author explains the process behind Openings, her new short story collection

Edna O'Brien – an Irish Literary Legend – Ireland's Own

20 years celebrating books at Cork festival

The 20th Cork World Book Fest gets underway tomorrow. COLETTE SHERIDAN chats to the two founders, Liam Ronayne and Ann Luttrell, about the highlights ...

PEN Heaney Prize launched

Uncovering history close to home

Mark Knopfler on the end of Dire Straits: 'Maybe I should have kept playing, let it get as big as Brazil' – The Irish Times

Reluctant to coast on old glories, the guitarist is about to release One Deep River, the 10th in a series of soulful and virtuosic stand-alone albums

A Pulitzer Prize winner was one of many writerly figures to pull up a pew at this €360k Kinsale home

As the home of writers Alannah Hopkin and the late Aidan Higgins, No 2 Higher O'Connell Street has a strong literary tradition

"Wild Atlantic Women" by Gráinne Lyons - IrishCentral Book Club

Join the IrishCentral Book Club this April as we read "Wild Atlantic Women - Walking Ireland’s West Coast” by Gráinne Lyons.

Why I'd swap the heights of Bruce Springsteen for just one transcendent Van Morrison moment – Ralph McLean – The Irish News

At the age of 78, Van Morrison is still gigging hard, with intimate shows at the Culloden Hotel on Sunday and Monday ahead of a large open air concert at Botanic Gardens in May and the Royal Albert Hall in London in June. He keeps doing it because he’s addicted to the moments of communion and transcendence that come from playing live, says self-confessed ‘Vanatic’ Ralph McLean about the performer he believes is Ireland’s greatest living artist

New Edna O'Brien portrait for Embassy | The Irish World