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12 incredibly Irish moments from the new ‘bonkbuster’

‘The Cougar Diaries’ is an erotic novel, but not as we know it.

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Deccie’s legacy, the losing locker-room and terrorists at the Olympics: some...

Get the kettle on.

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9 reasons why Terry Pratchett is an absolute legend

Today is his birthday and he is quite amazing.

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Interview: ‘I just want to be seen as an actor, not a Traveller actor’

Starring in the new movie, King of the Travellers, Michael Collins says he wanted the film to be realistic of the Travelling community. Here he tells us about being refused from Dublin pubs, not...

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Check out J.K. Rowling’s hand scrawled outline for Order of the Phoenix

So THAT’S how you write a book…

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Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads

The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.

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12 words you have to Google every single time you spell them

They are SPELLING KRYPTONITE.

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Column: To be a successful writer nowadays, you have to embrace social media

Writers from the days of print-only publications are still running to catch up with digital revolution, which has levelled the playing field and created almost-boundless opportunities for those with...

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The Sunday Papers: Thatcher, WWE and John Barnes – the week’s best writing

Get on it.

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All-Ireland final tickets, the mob and Messi: it’s our favourite sports...

Get the kettle on.

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Roddy Doyle, Eamon Dunphy and Claudia Carroll among book of the year nominees

The Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards nominations feature a number of recognisable names.

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7 examples of when good fonts go bad

It can all go so easily wrong.

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Irish Book Award winners: Roddy Doyle, Darina Allen, David Walsh and Fintan...

Some of Ireland’s top writers gathered tonight to award some of the nation’s best works.

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Want to be a film critic? Here’s your chance

The Irish Film Institute has set up an award scheme for potential movie critics in tribute to late programmer Pete Walsh.

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Extract: Colm McCann on Dublin, Ulysses and friendship

“The book that I return to, when I return to Ireland, is always Ulysses… Death takes away a lot of things, but it can’t ever take away our stories.”

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Sitdown Sunday: The 20 deadliest reads of 2013

It’s been a year of great writing. Here’s the very best from around the web.

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Column: It’s time to break down the barriers around poetry

Can’t we get more from our vast historic and modern wellspring of poetry? We are, after all, the nation that has reputedly more poets per square mile than any other in the world, writes Stephen Downes.

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What does it take to translate a best-seller into another language?

We asked an award-winning author and his translator what it’s like to translate a best-seller from Spanish to English.

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11 people who haven’t read Ulysses either

It’s on the bookshelf but…

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Ryan Tubridy is writing a children’s book this summer

Tubs is making use of his Late Late downtime.

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