Martin Doyle

I am one of the Garner-likers. But I like other things too! Find out what here👇

Books of the year 2025: Authors and critics pick their favourites Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices

Books of the year 2025: 36 Authors and critics pick their favourites. Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices

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Irish Book Awards 2025: Roisín O’Donnell, Claire Gleeson and Manchán Magan among winners Jacqueline Connolly, Andrew Porter, Cecelia Ahern, Andrea Mara, Elaine Feeney, Joseph O’Connor and Michael D Higgins also honoured

Irish Book Awards 2025: Roisín O’Donnell, Claire Gleeson and Manchán Magan among winners. Jacqueline Connolly, Andrew Porter, Cecelia Ahern, Andrea Mara, Elaine Feeney, Joseph O’Connor and Michael D Higgins also honoured

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Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

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Thanks Hilary

I found these souvenirs of an Ireland v England under-21s match in 1991 yesterday by coincidence as there is an Ireland v England under-21s match tonight too. Brentford was like a home match for me as The Irish in Britain News, where I worked at the time, was based there too, beside the Brewery Tap

Thanks Cécile!

Always a long/shortlist worth paying attention to 👇

Booker Prize 2025: David Szalay wins for Flesh ‘We had never read anything quite like it,’ says judging panel chair Roddy Doyle of the author’s ‘extraordinary, singular’ novel

Booker Prize 2025: David Szalay wins for Flesh @martindoyle.bsky.social

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Thanks Wendy, I enjoyed our conversation about The Amendments too, one of the best Irish books of the year

Thanks Pádhraic

Thank you!

Thanks very much, Rónán

Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press

Of course

Attention by Anne Enright: Critical alertness fuelled by an ever-expanding curiosity Substantive collection of essays covers a range of topics including Alice Munro, mother and baby homes, and the troubling intersection between life and art

Creative imagination and analytic capacity do not always pair well. The accomplished author of fiction and the successful essayist are not necessarily interchangeable. Enright has put her writer’s gifts at the service of a genuine, sustained “ecstasy of attention”

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Justine McCarthy: Where was the broadcast media’s due diligence on Ivan Yates? It’s time the media C-suite removed the mote from its own eye

Where was the broadcast media’s due diligence on Ivan Yates?

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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

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Vaim by Jon Fosse: Nobel-winning author shows his playful side First of three related novels has a mysterious, folk tale quality to it

My @irishtimes.com review of Vaim by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls, is now online for subscribers.

Reviewed this excellent book a few weeks ago. Made the point that the MAGA movement are increasingly embracing open antisemitism - a process accelerated by Carlson's hosting of Fuentes this week. Their view is already on the dominant one of the Irish fascist right.

Greysteel 'Trick or Treat' massacre 20 years on A look at one of the worst atrocities of the troubles twenty years after it happened.

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I am unashamedly obsessed with Anne Enright: her glorious opinions, her razor-sharp prose. This interview was a treat. What an absolute treasure.

Thanks Enda

This is a great interview and best thing I read all weekend. Anne is a treasure.

Anne Enright: ‘I’m in a lull. I’m trying to recalibrate after a long decade of elder care’ Anne Enright’s time looking after her parents has given the Booker winner an opportunity to take stock, both personally and creatively

My Anne Enright interview: “I am fed up saying I have a problem with authority, and that is why I do not write realism. Naturalistic fiction is a lie – and a dull one at that. This is me changing the narrative from your ‘broken’ to my ‘honest’ or even ‘smart’.”

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Tomorrow’s Ticket today, including my interview with Anne Enright