The Irish Times

Kilkenny’s Butler Gallery breaks from castle basement home

New venue opens on the eastern banks of river Nore with exhibition from photographer Amelia Stein

Sat Aug 22 2020 - 06:00

Irish Pages: words for a time when hope and history no longer rhyme

The current edition of Northern Ireland’s literary journal marks 20 years of the Belfast Agreement – and the overriding mood is one of disillusionment and despair

Mon Apr 01 2019 - 11:00

The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’

US author James Mustich says the book that took him 14 years to write should be thought of as a kind of imaginary bookshop

Tue Dec 04 2018 - 05:00

The Nuncio and the Writer: A heart in Kilkenny, a mind on Croatia

Johnny Gogan’s biography of Hubert Butler finds this Irish George Orwell honoured by his intellectual inheritors

Wed Aug 09 2017 - 10:00

Five TV shows to watch this week

Here’s our best screenshots

Sun Aug 06 2017 - 12:00

EU improved Anglo-Irish relations, ex-ambassador claimed

Ivor Roberts’s 2003 dispatch credited Brussels with bringing the two nations together

Sat Feb 11 2017 - 01:00

Nazi war criminal reportedly died in a Syrian dungeon

The fate of Alois Brunner, blamed for the death of 130,000, has always been a mystery

Fri Jan 13 2017 - 01:00

Diarmaid Ferriter: Brexit vote denies North’s freedom to choose

Dismissals of claims that Brexit could damage peace process are worrying

Sat Nov 05 2016 - 07:00

Joseph Hone: Accomplished travel writer and novelist

John Ford film gave Hone a valuable masterclass in storytelling

Sat Sept 03 2016 - 01:10

The trouble with what we call freedom

We like to believe that freedom and democracy are inseparable; that the toppling of a dictator means greater liberty. If only

Sat Aug 06 2016 - 05:08

Culture Shock: In saving Jews from the Nazis, Hubert Butler saved Ireland from shame

As we mark Holocaust Memorial Day, it’s worth remembering that what our great essayist did was illegal – not just in Nazi Europe but also in Ireland, where Jews were not allowed to compete with the Irish self-image as the Most Oppressed People Ever

Sat Jan 24 2015 - 01:00

Roy Foster on Hubert Butler, WB Yeats and Phineas Finn

‘The Confederation of Kilkenny in the 1640s would be a good subject for a picaresque novel full of spies and skulduggery. But as we say, it’s not my period’

Thu Oct 02 2014 - 01:00