Dermot Bolger
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
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
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