The Irish Times

Covid-19: The EU’s response to the pandemic has been slow, stingy and fearful

Javier Cercas: Coronavirus is a dangerous test of the EU’s ability to keep nationalism in check

Fri Apr 17 2020 - 06:00

City break? Czech out Prague

Engrossing and beguiling, the Czech capital offers visitors a glimpse of its rich and glorious past

Sat Oct 20 2018 - 06:00

My Bergmanesque despair is being dialled up to 11

The Oxford English Dictionary’s newest entries include more than 100 film-related terms

Fri Oct 12 2018 - 05:30

From Kafka to Walsh: This week’s theatre highlights

Imaginative new spins on old concerns take the stages this week

Fri Oct 20 2017 - 05:00

Your guide to going out – and staying in – this weekend

St Vincent plays Olympia while Josephine K and the Algorithms comes to Abbey Theatre

Fri Oct 20 2017 - 01:00

Josephine K and the Algorithms: Kafka gets a modern update

In Stacey Gregg’s new play, the forces that push us around are creatures of our own creation

Mon Oct 16 2017 - 21:30

Buzzing benches and hungry films: this week's art shows

Daria Martin intrigues with short movies while Camille Norment resonates

Tue Aug 08 2017 - 05:00

After the amputation: a powerful rendering of disability

Hopdance review: Stewart Parker’s posthumous memoir novel captures figments of a lost year

Sat May 06 2017 - 06:00

Residents’ recycling bin error causes stink – and €1,800 fine

Huge bill issued in Germany for badly sorted rubbish highlights bewildering process

Wed Nov 16 2016 - 18:20

Nesbitt says Stormont House talks a ‘unique opportunity’

Party conference told Sinn Féin must ‘get real’ on issue of continued IRA existence

Sat Oct 24 2015 - 15:25

Volunteers step in as Hungary tries to shut out illegal migrants

‘Strange and random’ happenings await the recent arrivals in an ill-prepared Europe

Mon Aug 24 2015 - 01:00

Baiting the censor: 10 books they tried to suppress

Hilary Mantel’s short story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher caused outrage with its recent publication in the Guardian, but it’s not the first and won’t be last piece of fiction to raise hackles

Mon Sept 29 2014 - 01:00

Silent suffering for Donetsk critics of ‘Kafka-esque’ poll

Opponents of referendum stay away from poll they consider fixed

Mon May 12 2014 - 01:00

Mad men and women in fiction

From Jane Eyre’s madwoman in the attic to Captain Ahab in Moby Dick and Francie in The Butcher Boy, madness is a recurring and compelling theme in literature

Fri May 02 2014 - 01:27

Nobel laureate who gave voice to Latin America

García Márquez emulated his grandmother’s storytelling ways

Sat Apr 19 2014 - 01:00

Left-wing writer who changed the course of literature in Spanish and did not fear politics

Gabriel García Márquez: March 6th, 1927 – April 17th, 2014

Fri Apr 18 2014 - 18:40

The Double

Fri Apr 04 2014 - 00:00

Ten great opening lines in literature

These are some of our favourite opening lines - could you write one of your own? Post it in the comment box below. We might even find a suitable prize for the best or funniest

Fri Mar 21 2014 - 00:01