Sally Rooney

A country of storytellers, poets and writers, Ireland has always been a rich breeding ground for language lovers but never before has Irish literature been this prolific. John Patrick McHugh, Naoise Dolan and Megan Nolan are just a few of…

Willingly or not, we as a nation have collectively witnessed Sally Rooney’s rapid trajectory to fame with the television adaption of her sophomore novel Normal People. The series quickly became a household name, with seemingly everyone and…

Connell Waldron (Paul Mescal) was designed in a lab to make girls swoon. He’s one of the popular kids; handsome and sporty but also quiet, introspective and just a little bit shy. Marianne Sheridan (Daisy Edgar-Jones), on the other hand,…

With the new academic year now in full swing and university students both fresh and jaded settling (back) into seminars and tutorials, lectures and labs, it’s an ideal time to talk about the Irish campus novel – this year more so than…

Where might you see a member of the Dubliners one minute and a member of Led Zeppelin the next, an American Poet Laureate amid two Dames and an ex-priest passing an ex-prisoner? This might seem strange anywhere else but in the Listowel Arms…

Welcome to this round of the Lit Review. The International Literature Festival Dublin is looking for volunteers, Sally Rooney's second novel is released in September, The Stinging Fly wants unpublished writers, One City One Book celebrates…

We have asked some of Ireland's top literary types to give us their top picks for Books of the Year 2017. Did we miss any of your favourites? Let us know in the comments. Let's get stuck in: Here are the HeadStuff Books of the Year 2017…

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control. Joan Didion News Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold If you haven't watched it yet be sure to check out the recently released documentary about the life of…

 An unforgettable novel about the possibility of love. So says the blurb on the back of Sally Rooney’s debut novel, Conversations with Friends. Unforgettable, it is. This is a story of convergence and collision between two pairs of…