The works of the legendary Kerry poet, who died last week, will endure for decades to come. But his death has brought a strong sense that we must cherish our surviving literary giants while we still can

Historian Diarmaid Ferriter’s forensic study of the bitter disputes that drove the Irish Civil War is an important addition to our understanding of the war and its legacy

The author marks the 150th birthday of the legendary painter Jack B Yeats with a poem specially commissioned for the occasion

Niall Williams and Christine Breen’s beguiling tale of the garden they constructed in their Co Clare cottage is clouded by personal setbacks and the looming spectre of a nearby wind farm

Eimear Ryan’s debut novel is a compelling tale that oscillates between the contrasting worlds of high-performance sport and literature

Kei Miller’s new collection of essays is a compelling exploration of what it means to be a black man in the modern age

Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel is superbly written and deeply meditative

Michael O’Loughlin’s latest collection of prose and verse explores the creation of the capital’s tallest building from an original and unusual angle

Historians

A new biography of the brilliant Anthony Clare does justice to his extraordinary life and work

Dónall Mac Amhlaigh’s reissued 1986 ‘novel’ is instead three spellbinding stories for the price of one

The Irish author’s latest novel is set in an America still rebuilding itself after the Civil War

Marianne Lee’s debut novel is an exemplary act of reclamation and literary ventriloquism

Portrush may have hosted the British Open Championship last year, but Fermanagh’s Lough Erne is to the fore when it comes to golf in a spectacular setting

Anne Griffin's When All Is Said is an emotive novel about loves that are no less true for having never been expressed, and 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan is a complicated and realistic character, shaped by his past

Haverty’s debut collection of poems, The Beauty of the Moon, appeared in 1999. Now comes this superbly understated second collection, 19 years in the making

When Harvard University sent an archaeological mission to Ireland in the 1930s to determine Ireland’s racial and cultural heritage, it was socially and politically important to rich Irish Americans

David Park, the quiet man of Irish writing has deftly got on with building up a remarkable oeuvre of superbly crafted fiction, each novel constructed without pyrotechnics or any dilution of his sparse, lyrical and clear-headed prose

Cantú’s book – half memoir, half meditation – implants itself in your mind

This is the fifth volume in the Royal Irish Academy’s superbly produced and illustrated Judging series, which seeks to reassess major Irish historical figures