Pádraig Collins caught up with bestselling Irish author John Connolly in Sydney on the eve of the release of his latest novel, The Whisperers, which hit the shelves in Australia this week.
THE WHISPERERS features Connolly’s regular hero – private detective Charlie Parker – investigating the death of an Iraq war veteran in the north-eastern US [...]

Award-winning Irish novelist Colm Tóibín was one of the feature attractions at the recent Sydney Writers’ Festival, but even the man himself says he was blown away by the level of interest in his appearances at a number of different events around the city.
The crowds flocked to see the author of the 2010 Costa Novel [...]

Irish writers Colm Tóibín and Nessa O’Mahoney will be two of the star attractions when this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival kicks off on May 15.
A number of specific Irish events will take place around the city as part of the festival, the first of which will be held on Thursday, May 20 in Walsh Bay [...]

THE RIDDLE OF FATHER HACKETT. A Life in Ireland and Australia. By Brenda Niall. National Library of Australia. 320 pp. $39.95
Brendan Behan once famously joked that the first item on the agenda of any Irish organisation would always be The Split. It is a sentiment with which the subject of this excellent biography might have [...]