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Kenny's celebrates 85 years of selling books
29 Nov 2025 11:36 GMT
… , retail bookshop, libraries division, archives department, book bindery and … of thousands of books around Ireland and … bookstore has welcomed thousands of Irish writers, artists and publishers … Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Maeve Binchy, John Behan, Edna O …
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Michael D. Higgins amongst winners at Irish Book Awards
25 Nov 2025 11:10 GMT
… Award recipients including Anne Enright, Maeve Binchy, Colm Tóibín, Edna O… author Joseph O'Connor for his novel The Ghosts of Rome, published … her novel Paper Heart, published by HaperCollins. A much loved author, this book delves …
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Michael D Higgins to receive lifetime achievement award at An Post Book Awards
21 Nov 2025 09:47 GMT
… award at the An Post Book Awards later this month.
The … include Anne Enright, Sebastian Barry, Maeve Binchy, Colm Tóibín, Eavan Boland, Edna … in the An Post Irish Book Awards over the years”, the … window ]
The chairman of the book awards, Larry Mac Hale, said …
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Lifetime Achievement prize for Michael D. Higgins at Book Awards
20 Nov 2025 19:52 GMT
… the An Post Irish Book Awards 2025.
The ceremony … Against All Certainty (2025), published alongside a spoken word album … Board of the Irish Book Awards praised Higgins for … previous recipients, including Seamus Heaney, Maeve Binchy, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, …
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Emma Heatherington: ‘Maeve Binchy made me fall in love with stories about ordinary people that touch your heart’
23 Oct 2025 17:22 GMT
Emma Heatherington is the internationally best-selling author of 15 novels, including the best-selling ebook This Christmas. Her new novel, Every Christmas Eve, is published by Penguin Century, and is out now.
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Going back to school in the best Retros out now: The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury, Evening Class by Maeve Binchy, Good Country People
10 Oct 2025 04:47 GMT
By SALLY MORRIS
Published: 19:02 EDT, 9 October … available now
This 1970s campus novel should feel outdated compared with … everyone equally.
EVENING CLASS by Maeve Binchy (Orion £9.99, 528pp)
Disappointed … and this will have you booking an autumn break in Rome …
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Call to repatriate the body of the mother of W B Yeats from a ‘neglected’ London grave to her native Sligo
12 Dec 2025 14:46 GMT
… the final of his five books on the city’s literary … . A History and Guidebook. The book is the first comprehensive Guide … Beckett and James Joyce to Maeve Binchy, Elizabeth Bowen and Mary Lavin …
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Clare Mackintosh: ‘I re-read Maeve Binchy when I’m feeling glum. She wrote with such warmth it’s like getting a hug from a book’
06 Mar 2025 17:28 GMT
Clare Mackintosh is a former police inspector and the award-winning author of seven bestselling novels. Her books have sold more than three million copies and are translated into 40 languages. Other People’s Houses, the third book in her DC Ffion Morgan …
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Maeve Binchy's childhood home where she experienced 'great joy' hits market for €1.2m
06 Dec 2024 11:31 GMT
"The Circle Of Friends" author passed away in 2012 after a short illness at the age of 72. She grew up in the house in Glenageary as the eldest of the four Binchy children and went on to become one of Ireland's most popular and best-selling …
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Elaine Feeney on her new novel: ‘I was pushing a sort of Chekhov dinner party in the west of Ireland’
01 Jun 2025 04:24 GMT
… branded tote from her “lovely publishers” and the exuberance of someone … of talking about her Booker Prize-longlisted second novel, How to Build … in the 1995 adaptation of Maeve Binchy’s A Circle of Friends … want them all to have publishing deals,” she says of …