A meticulously researched history argues that Godot’s dominance has overshadowed Beckett’s wider theatrical legacy

A beautifully crafted tribute to remarkable women and a howl of condemnation at a country that ‘failed them’

The Belfast poet cuts her words to fit, or suit, though her poems can also settle into the straightforwardness of a realist play

New book explores the battles, atrocities, and political machinations of Ireland’s most violent insurrection

Journalist with the Economist explores our relationship with this ‘zero-sum’ asset: you either have it or you don’t

Eoin Ó Broin and Mal McCann pay tribute to the Dublin Corporation chief housing architect who built 17,000 homes for the city’s poor

New books by Marissa Meyer, Nikita Gill, Joelle Wellington, Hannah Marshall and Xixi Tian

Miller-Idriss writes with clarity and urgency, showing how everyday sexism provides the scaffolding for extremism

Female voices triumph in vignettes accompanied by recipes

Gaeilge is possibly more popular now than at any time since the heyday of the Revival

The future Nobel winner’s near 40-year correspondence with the editor Charles Monteith is a fascinating record of an artistic collaboration and its evolution

The long-time PR adviser to politicians has saved her juiciest material for this second volume of memoirs

Among those contributing anecdoates are Charles Dance, Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hollander

The ‘profound artistry’ of Irish music through the words of Erick Falc’her Poyroux, Mick O’Connor and Seán Potts

Fiction can be a great gift thanks to authors such as Alexandra Benedict, Charlie Nutbrown and Tom McCaughren

Martina Evans on Hymn to All the Restless Girls, Fallen, Brink and Foretokens

Families’ ordeal and the wider context of the peace process is examined in this methodically compiled study of the 2004 heist

Canada and the Great Irish Famine is a fascinating collection of essays on disparate aspects of a crisis that today’s ‘Ireland is Full’ crowd might do well to reflect upon

The warmth with which Rushdie’s revisits the landscapes of his life results in humour and genuine sadness

Catholicism provided greater certainty than the Church of England, which was considered a wishy-washy institution by many in the 20th century