Rob Doyle

2020 has been another great year for Irish fiction. Whether you are interested in crime or literary fiction or genre fiction (I am not even sure what that is) there has been a constant stream of reading material to keep us going through the…

‘When I sit down to write, I’m pursuing an ideal of total freedom.’ Rob Doyle talks to WriteStuff about his novel Here Are the Young Men, his story collection This is the Ritual, his forthcoming novel and an anthology of experimental…

News Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards From a small base of three categories in 2007, the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards have grown over the years to include fifteen categories spanning many literary genres. Every year readers have the…

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, It's Lit Review time. Events The festival formerly known as the Frank O'Connor Short Story Festival will begin on the 7th of September. The event is…

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It's the Lit Review. Lit Events The International Literature Festival is pitching up in Dublin so there will be piles of great events this week. Though they are clogging up the new…

Young Irelanders, the name of this new anthology of short stories, is well titled with its echoes of the 1848 rebellion in famine-ravaged Ireland. In this year, a group of romantic nationalists and intellectuals heavily influenced by events…