Author Patricia Scanlan: ‘I’m working on an unanticipated project of healing from breast cancer’
The author on new novel City Girls Forever, a key difference between men and women and dealing with a cancer diagnosis
Dermot Bolger
Jennifer Johnston obituary: Writer who combined brevity with razor-sharp wisdom
While Johnston was initially associated with the Big House literary tradition, she was above all a minutely observant chronicler of family dysfunction in Ireland
Author Seán Farrell: ‘Dermot Bolger said there was a whiff of silage off my novel. I think that was a compliment’
The novelist on his debut novel, Frogs for Watchdogs; Raymond Chandler’s writing advice; and why he would not invite any writers to his dinner party
Fintan O’Toole on his career: ‘You had to learn to live with the fact that some people despised you’
The Irish Times columnist has made a new documentary about his life for RTÉ. Here he looks back on a career that he began as the Michelangelo of Tipp-Ex
David Marcus, The Irish Times and a golden age of literary journalism
Even at a time of much cross-fertilisation between the literary and journalistic worlds, it was a brave and radical idea to run a regular creative-writing page in a daily newspaper. In pursuing this, David Marcus nurtured many young talents
Home, Boys, Home: Dermot Bolger’s heartbreaking, witty script is also a powerful commentary on family, society and morality
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Ray Yeates, Fionnuala Gygax and Donna Anita Nikolaisen star in the final part of a trilogy that began with In High Germany
‘Cheaper than a divorce’: Four writers on carving out space at home for their work
Having a ‘room of one’s own’ can help writers get the right work from home balance - but not always
Detective Fiction – Frank McNally on three famous Dublin characters, real and imaginary
An Irishman’s Diary
House in Joyce’s The Dead to be turned into hostel despite Tóibín appeal
Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce
Live theatre was getting interesting. Then Covid arrived
Several new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sight
Top Irish authors contribute to new book to help adult literacy
Publication in plain English marks 40 years of the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA)
John Boyne reopens Covid-19 story contest after over 4,000 children enter
Isolation Diaries: The novelist also tells us about his experience of the coronavirus shutdown
Kate Holmquist: ‘A rule-breaker, trail blazer and a woman ahead of her time'
Hundreds attend service to remember writer who had the power to make words bloom just like the flowers in her garden
Last Stories by William Trevor is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer
A sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages
MusicTown 2019 festival: Everything you need to know
Events across Dublin city from feature Blindboy and play ‘My Father’s Kind’
Owen Roe: 'How can you study Beckett and not know anything about Laurel and Hardy?'
The actor will be honoured at this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
The Abbey: 15 things we learned this week about disgruntled theatre workers
Here’s what the theatre and creative talent will talk about when they meet tonight
Two theatre shows to see this week
Ulysses in the Abbey; Fred and Alice in the Viking Theatre, Clontarf
Cork poet Liam Ó Muirthile dead at 68
Writer ‘pushed the boundaries of Irish language literature through his dynamic prose’
Theatre highlights of the week ending December 24th
In this weeks’s theatre, a frightful creature becomes a useful friend, an old fable is laced up to fit new times, and one eccentric Dubliner finally becomes a legend
Best theatre this week: a female perspective on Joyce’s Dubliners
Murfi keeps travelling in The Man in Woman’s Shoes and women in the second World War
Ulysses review: Joyce’s masterpiece gets a pop-up book treatment
The sprawling, shape-shifting puzzle of Ulysses here becomes a series of theatrical parlour games
Bye bye, Bang Bang: a great Dublin eccentric gets his due
Plaque erected to Thomas Dudley, a playful son of the city who always stuck to his guns
Passchendaele dead remembered 100 years after start of horror battle
Francis Ledwidge commemorated in day to mark battle that cost 500,000 casualties
Dublin Theatre Festival announces its 60th anniversary programme
Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’
RTÉ ‘Seascapes’ presenter prepares to come ashore for last time
Marcus Connaughton leaves ‘niche’ radio show with ‘remarkable following’ after 15 years
In praise of Jennifer Johnston
Irish Times Blook Club: Novelist has chronicled the family across a century of troubled Irish history
Centenary events launched to mark the death of war poet Francis Ledwidge
National day of commemoration to remember death of poet killed at Passchendaele
Anthony Cronin remembered as the ‘complete, consummate man’
Michael D Higgins among those to attend funeral of Irish poet who died aged 88
Tributes to Anthony Cronin highlight privately kind man
Publisher Dermot Bolger reflects on encouragement visible from teenage years
Diarmaid Ferriter: Self-service libraries are not true libraries
Many library users need assistance and libraries have to be staffed by those with knowledge to be true to their mission
Anthony Cronin: Poetry, politics and this all too short life
Cronin has had many lives: as a bar-stool confidant to Irish literary giants, adviser to Haughey and a renowned poet
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