The Irish Literary Times

28-year-old Naoise Dolan reveals herself to be a precocious talent in her debut novel 'Exciting Times,' which follows a young Irish expat living in Hong Kong, teaching English and learning how to fall in love.

The young Irish writer, who has won acclaim for her debut novel, on writing in a time of crisis and finding comfort in small routines

Poem of the week: A new work by Rachael Hegarty

Book review: Louise Baring’s delightful account captures Frenchman’s relentless joie de vivre

A "meditation" might be the best way to describe the slightly untethered formal energies of this 1981 essay by Edna O'Brien, now revived for this year's Bloomsday celebrations.

She has already been compared with writers such as Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Claire Louise Bennett, and indeed Niamh Campbell's debut novel does add a distinctive new voice to Irish literature. Born in 1988, Campbell grew up in Dublin, where she still lives. She has a PhD in English literature from King's College London and is working as a postdoctoral fellow for the Irish Research Council at Maynooth University.

"Age doesn't matter, the work does," declared Sinead Gleeson who last night won the Dalkey Book Festival's Emerging Writer Award - and €10,000 - for her assured collection of essays, Constellations.

Edna O'Brien's Dalkey home is for sale. The author of The Country Girls used to reside in this Victorian villa with her husband Ernest Gebler.

Paddy Kehoe has ten tips for summer reading to see you well-armed before you go browsing the display areas and find you are. well, just spoiled for choice. Happy reading..