The Lit Review

News Bob Dylan Finally Accepts Award The strange saga of Bob Dylan's Nobel win continues. After being a no-show at the banquet on December 10th, it has been confirmed that he received his medal and diploma "during a meeting with members…

News Winners of the Hennessy Literary Awards Hennessey held their 46th annual Literary Awards on Tuesday night. The awards are one of the longest running cultural sponsorships, celebrating new Irish writing. This year’s judges were…

News Diverse events planned for the International Literature Festival Dublin With the newly released details regarding a few of the events for the International Literature Festival Dublin, it's hinted that the festival is taking a diverse…

News Alan McMonagle Launches Debut Novel The launch of Alan McMonagle's debut novel was held in Hodges Figgis on Tuesday evening. Donal Ryan spoke at the event, with both writers reading excerpts from McMonagle's novel Ithaca. The …

Welcome to the 100th instalment of the Lit Review! Although it's not very literary to endorse emojis, I encourage you to imagine this post is peppered with the celebratory ones. This week we look at Marina Carr, Tom Hanks and the Ennis Book…

News John Montague's Last Collection A collection of new poems by esteemed Irish poet John Montague will be published on Tuesday. The posthumous collection, entitled Second Childhood, is being published by Gallery Press on what would have…

News New Irish Poetry Journal Launches Cork appears to be emerging as a literary hub for Ireland (which I like to half-jokingly, half-seriously attribute to Graham Norton - maybe I'll look into this...), as a new poetry and arts journal…

News Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Speaks at Dublin Chinese New Year Event On Wednesday, contemporary poet Nuala Ní Dhomnaill attended an event organised by Literature Ireland for this year's Dublin Chinese New Year festival. The free event was…

News Cork Literary Gathering Are you living in Cork? Have you, as I'm sure many others have, read Graham Norton's debut novel Holding and thought, hey, maybe I can be a writer too? Well you're in luck then, because a new monthly literary…

Library Ransom Have you ever felt like it would be easier to pay those library fines in bitcoin? In what is hopefully the last instance of library crime in 2017, the public libraries of St Louis are being held ransom. Hackers using a…