Sir Terry on the streets of Dublin in 1989Published on September 5th, 1989, The Times We Lived In remembers Terry WoganSat Feb 06 2016 - 09:00
The Irish women behind Engels and the birth of communismGavin McCrea’s research into the elusive, illiterate Lizzie Burns is now a historical novelWed Feb 03 2016 - 10:00
Irish voices to a Chinese earA young Chinese poet delighted by the contemporary Irish poetry scene.Sat Jan 23 2016 - 17:03
What's on: The festival guide for 2016Start planning this year’s holidays and weekends away in Ireland with our guide to the best arts events and festivals throughout the countrySat Jan 09 2016 - 06:00
Commemorate or bust: How 1916 will be remembered through the yearThe scale of the thing is stunning – and not always in a good way. A lot of good intentions and ideals are floating around, but hard details – such as dates, times and even locations – are thin on the ground at this stageSat Jan 09 2016 - 06:00
Arts your way around Ireland: A festival tourSuppose you wanted to spend 2016 touring Ireland in festivals. Here’s one route, to get your cultural year on the road.Sat Jan 09 2016 - 06:00
Books to watch out for in 2016The Easter Rising centenary is about to unleash a volley of history titles, but there are some blistering stories from fiction’s big beasts on the way tooSat Jan 02 2016 - 05:45
Arminta Wallace’s 2015: Adrift in a sea of multicoloured gloopIn this noisy world you gotta stop and pay attention – or you’ll miss all the best stuffSat Dec 19 2015 - 05:00
The Times We Lived In: Cadets letting off steam at the CurraghPublished: May 3rd, 1988. Photograph: Eddie KellySat Dec 12 2015 - 00:00
Ian Rankin: ‘Rebus keeps surprising me’What will become of the retired detective and his nemesis, Big Ger Cafferty. Will they fall into friendship or kill each other? Not even their creator, Ian Rankin, knowsTue Dec 08 2015 - 06:00
The Times We Lived In: Election fever in 1989Published: May 1st, 1989. Photograph by Matt KavanaghSat Dec 05 2015 - 00:00
Patrick deWitt: ‘I am oftentimes drawn to unfashionable things’The Man Booker shortlist author on the joys of Portland, writing modern fairytales, his next project, and why he felt he had no choice but to bin a 300-page novel he had finishedTue Dec 01 2015 - 08:45
‘My throat feels weird when I don’t sing’: life in the Palestrina ChoirThe diverse members of the Palestrina children’s choirs in Dublin might have the voices of angels, but there’s devilment there tooMon Nov 30 2015 - 06:00
The Times We Lived In: A Christmas miracle on 1950s O’Connell StreetPublished: December 19th, 1959. Photograph by Dermot BarrySat Nov 21 2015 - 02:00
Famine essays resonate with contemporary events‘Famine Folios’ aims to see national calamity afresh through 21st-century eyesSat Nov 07 2015 - 01:00
Aleksandar Hemon: ‘It’s the end of America. They just don’t know it yet’Interview: The Bosnian-American writer’s new novel is a comedy with tragedy at its heart: the main characters have all been destroyed by state-sponsored conflictsTue Nov 03 2015 - 06:00
Getting to the heart of Donal Ryan’s village peopleA new short story collection, ‘A Slanting of the Sun’, brings us back to the setting of his novelsSat Oct 31 2015 - 01:00
Hilary Fannin: Behind the Venetian blindsThe one person Hilary Fannin worried about when writing her memoir was her motherSat Oct 24 2015 - 08:50
Patricia Bardon: From ‘rock babe’ to mezzo superstarInterview: Bardon, a Led Zeppelin fan who came to opera late, is home in Dublin for Mahler’s Resurrection symphonyThu Oct 15 2015 - 06:00
The Times We Lived In: King of flesh-and-blood front-page mischiefPublished: March 3rd, 1989. Photograph by Paddy WhelanSat Oct 10 2015 - 00:00
DTF review | Dancehall: Living to dance another dayHow does your body respond to music? And how does society respond to that? Emma Martin has a few answersFri Oct 09 2015 - 10:54
Justin Cartwright: ‘I have a theory this might have been the start of apartheid’Justin Cartwright’s new book starts off swooning over the idyllic side of South Africa before taking in the awful history of murder and massacre between Boers and ZulusTue Oct 06 2015 - 06:00
Henning Mankell, Wallander author and Nordic noir exponent, diesMankell explored the dark side of Sweden, challenging its image as a low-crime societyMon Oct 05 2015 - 11:37
The Times We Lived In: dazed and confused by the contraceptive trainPublished: May 24th, 1971Photograph by Eddie KellySat Oct 03 2015 - 04:00
Colum McCann: ‘He knocked out all my teeth. I laughed it off at first’A vicious attack outside a Connecticut hotel left the Irish novelist not only needing new teeth but also facing a dilemma about his new book, which features a similar incidentSat Oct 03 2015 - 01:00
DTF Review | By Heart: Subtle, powerful and likely to make you roar at the stageHow hard can learning one bit of a sonnet be? And shouldn’t watching it make for terrible theatre? Well pull up a chair soFri Sept 25 2015 - 11:30
Fringe begins: Ten shows to see at the Tiger Dublin FringeDublin’s Fringe is a two-week festival packed with plays, concerts, dance and other performances. Where do you start? Right hereThu Sept 10 2015 - 11:15
The Times We Lived In: a tale of two MicheálsPublished: December 22nd, 1952. Photograph: Dermot BarrySat Sept 05 2015 - 12:00
Merrion Square artists celebrate 30 years of their outdoor galleryA street party will mark the anniversary of its opening, with music and family activitiesSat Sept 05 2015 - 03:00
The man with the reputation to live up to: Lisbeth Salander’s new writerDavid Lagercrantz is a household name in Sweden, thanks to his biography of the soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic. But now he’s set to tackle Stieg Larsson’s legacy, with his follow-up to the Millennium trilogySat Sept 05 2015 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: A show raising more questions than it answeredPublished: March 29th, 1987 Photograph: Paddy WhelanSat Aug 22 2015 - 01:00
Take one egg . . . A good food guide for studentsAway from home for the first time, with little money, little time and lots of brain to feed? Start here . . .Mon Aug 17 2015 - 16:00
The Times We Lived In: students urge ‘No’ to European Economic CommunityPublished: May 6th, 1972 Photograph: Eddie KellySat Aug 15 2015 - 00:00
9 things we learned at Kilkenny Arts FestivalThe Marble City was taken over by Saxon saxophonists, wearable sculptures, portrait painting and a focus on BachThu Aug 13 2015 - 06:00
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Fast, fun and unpredictable‘People are going on a journey - whether they come for a day or for the whole festival’Mon Aug 10 2015 - 11:57
Robert Pinsky: ‘I don’t like the idea that poetry is marketed’The three times US poet laureate is in residence at the Kilkenny Arts FestivalSat Aug 08 2015 - 01:00
Unhappy harpsichord opens Kilkenny International arts festDelicate instrument falters briefly at start of Kilkenny Arts FestivalSat Aug 08 2015 - 01:00
Pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei: The Tao of BachThe pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei first learned how to play Bach in a Chinese labour camp. Now she plays his work almost exclusively, thanks to his Taoist blend of profundity and spontaneous sillinessSat Aug 01 2015 - 01:00
Alternative summer reads with a dark sideLike many good summer reads, these three novels are moving page-turners, but their headlong dive into the dark challenge the notion of sun-holiday fictionWed Jul 29 2015 - 03:00
Ten things we learned at West Cork Literary FestivalWriters can get very angry but they shouldn’t go to the gym: these and other literary nuggets were divulged in BantryMon Jul 27 2015 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: The Dublin Horse ShowPublished: August 11th, 1989. Photograph: Matt KavanaghSat Jul 25 2015 - 06:00
The Times We Lived In: Vanessa Redgrave rocks the coatPublished: March 1st, 1960. Photograph: Jack McManusSat Jul 18 2015 - 05:00
Paul Murray: ‘The banks were full of basket cases'The ‘Skippy Dies’ author hadn’t planned to write his next novel, ‘The Mark and the Void’, about the financial crash, but he couldn’t help himself once he read about bankers’ anticsSat Jul 18 2015 - 01:00
The trials and triumphs of a young Irish figure skaterSophia Tkacheva (9), from Co Wexford, has gained international recognition for her skating. Not bad for someone who doesn’t have regular access to iceFri Jul 17 2015 - 05:45
The six authors in the mix for Frank O’Connor awardOn Wednesday a winner will be announced for the most lucrative short-story prize in the worldTue Jul 07 2015 - 14:08
A Canadian novel about Kerry’s ‘mythic’ Rás Tailteann in the 1950sCanadian novelist Jane Urquhart, who had a cottage in Kerry for 20 years, has finally written a book set there. What took her so long?Mon Jul 06 2015 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: Maeve Binchy and her circle of friendsPublished: May 11th, 1995. Photograph: Paddy WhelanSat Jul 04 2015 - 00:00
The Times We Lived In: Dancing out of step with the Dáil on neutralityPublished: May 11th, 1967 Photograph by Eddie KellySat Jun 27 2015 - 00:00
What is poetry? Three masters look for answersBeekeeping, Belfast and Buddhism: books of lectures by Harry Clifton, Paula Meehan and Michael Longley cast the net wideMon Jun 22 2015 - 06:00
