What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory by Brian Eno, Bette A. Nothing less than a call to arms
Brian Eno, musicial maverick and sometime U2 producer, and Dutch artist and writer Bette A explore what art is and its potential to help humanity to change course
By Peter Murphy
The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor: Follow-up to My Father’s House draws an extraordinary picture of Rome under Nazi control
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (Vol 14) 1969-73: The North, above all else, required the Department of Foreign Affairs to up its game
Fiction in translation: A glimpse of failed far-right coup leader’s assured gifts as a storyteller
Michael Longley funeral: Poets and politicians gather for writer who ‘touched the soul and imagination of many’
‘A lot of things boys seem to instinctually love, we tend to be more dismissive of or even concerned about’
Paul Howard and Gordon D’Arcy: ‘Football has rules, but rugby has laws because they were drawn up by solicitors charging by the hour’
Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: illuminating Ireland pre-independence
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Paul Howard and Gordon D’Arcy: ‘Football has rules, but rugby has laws because they were drawn up by solicitors charging by the hour’
By Jen Hogan
‘A lot of things boys seem to instinctually love, we tend to be more dismissive of or even concerned about’
By Edel Coffey
The Book of George by Kate Greathead: The arrested development and identity crisis of a modern man
By Rabeea Saleem
The Cleaner by Mary Watson: A novel probing class and privilege tends to overexplain
By Philippa Conlon
The Last Days of Budapest by Adam LeBor: Examining the destruction in second World War’s final year
By Michael O’Loughlin
Slow Train Coming by Todd Almond: The inside story of Bob Dylan and Conor McPherson’s stage collaboration
By Anthony Roche
Children’s fiction: Five books to delight the younger reader with tales of magical cats, geese and squirrels - and a busy girl called Wanda
By Sara Keating
Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland – A quaffable and comprehensive history that leaves the reader with a thirst for more
By Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire
Author Neil Gaiman dropped by US comics publisher after sexual misconduct allegations
By Ella Creamer
