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📕'Writers and visual artists essentially do the same thing'—Tom McAndrew talks all things bookish in our Q&A 📕
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📕Sue Divin talks to Sue Leonard about her new YA novel Runaway Road 📕
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🌟Congratulations to Dean Browne, the winner of the €20,000 Pigott Poetry Prize 2026! 🌟
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🔥Niamh MacCabe talks about ambiguity, animals, and what she’d like to do with her cookbooks in the latest episode of Burning Books🔥
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🌟Gráinne O’Hare’s Thirst Trap wins the 2026 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award🌟
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⭐️The Moth Short Story Prize is now open for submissions, and will be judged this year by acclaimed author Wendy Erskine⭐️
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📕Ciara O’Connor, author of The Skidderwolves talks all things bookish in our Q&A📕
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📕Do you enjoy thrilling plots? What about unexpected twists, or deeply complex characters? Well, Dublin Book Festival have just the event for you!📕
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📕We're delighted to present The Introduction to Martin Doyle's collection of interviews with Irish writers, A Hosting 📕
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☀️What on earth to read for June?! Not to worry—here are all the new releases in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children's books! ☀️
📕Check out First Flush, our fully searchable database (which goes all the way back to 2021!)📕
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Dean Browne wins the 2026 Pigott Poetry Prize for After Party (Pan MacMillan).
Okay, his superiors might think him a clown, and okay, he might be secretly battling sight problems, but Shamie Doocey is determined to prove that he's still
