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The acclaimed author of The Country Girls, which was burned in the market square of her home town, has died aged 93. Here, Irish novelists pay tribute to a titanic figure who liberated their country’s fiction

Amanda Prowse’s latest book will be called ‘Swimming to Lundy’

The County Clare-born author was telling stories of women and their sex lives 50 years before Sally Rooney was bornIrish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

Inspired by an unidentified boy found dead in the Thames, the first – and only – collection by the late poet is an imaginative meditation on death and those who disappear

A new novel from the author of The Exhibitionist is a family saga of rare insight, with another magnificently grotesque villain at its heart

The Irish singer-songwriter has just released her debut EP and supported Shania Twain at Hyde Park. She speaks to Roisin O’Connor about her lonely first year in London, dropping out of school, and dealing with jealousy and scrutiny over her famous older brother, Paul

Tributes poured in on Sunday for Edna O'Brien, the radical Irish writer whose groundbreaking first novel "The Country Girls" was burned and banned in her native country, after her death at 93.

The Princess of Wales has "smoothed the way for William and his father to have a better relationship."

After early novels that won international acclaim but were banned at home, the Irish author had a prolific career lasting more than half a century

As a social scientist who has attended to JD Vance’s writing as part of my research, I was surprised when Trump selected him as his running mate. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, is one of the case studies in my ongoing research study on globalization at the intersection of various cross-border…

In the centenary of his birth year, the author’s voice is as necessary, human and sharp as ever in a reprinted short story collection and memoir from the 1960s and 70s