{"id":231949,"date":"2026-01-07T08:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/231949\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:15:13","slug":"a-golden-year-for-irish-page-to-screen-adaptations-eight-gems-to-watch-out-for-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/231949\/","title":{"rendered":"A golden year for Irish page to screen adaptations: Eight gems to watch out for in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nIrish authors are making waves on the small and big screens with an ongoing series of successful adaptations Here are eight projects to look forward to in 2026\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(L-R): Marian Keyes; Paul Murray; Catherine Ryan Howard; Caroline O'Donoghue; Niamh Hargan; Claire McGowan; Lisa McInerney; Wendy Erskine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/459e9245-a605-4182-900e-815ea929e519.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">(L-R): Marian Keyes; Paul Murray; Catherine Ryan Howard; Caroline O&#8217;Donoghue; Niamh Hargan; Claire McGowan; Lisa McInerney; Wendy Erskine<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Irish literature has long been going from strength to strength, but 2025 marked a bumper year for Irish literary adaptations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Fans of page-to-screen adaptations enjoyed an embarrassment of riches in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish authors are making waves on the small and big screens with an ongoing series of successful adaptations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,12271],"class_list":["post-231949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tanya-sweeney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}