Rise of Ireland’s far right relies on abandoned social conservatives

Nativist politics have not played a big role in recent Irish elections. Might that change?

The Iron Age review: steely portrait of postwar Finland

Arja Kajermo uses fable and charming illustrations to bring a family’s struggles to life

Heinrich’s Hundred – An Irishman’s Diary about Nobel winner and hibernophile Heinrich Böll

Ríona Judge McCormack wins Hennessy New Irish Writer award

Chris Connolly wins Emerging Fiction prize, Jane Clarke wins Emerging Poetry award and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne inducted into Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame

Signatories review: an imagined truth about key figures in the Rising

Eight Irish writers’ monologues create a moving theatrical tapestry

Irish writers commemorate Proclamation signatories

Theatre project will mark Rising centenary with production in Kilmainham Gaol

Merkel’s Decade: A new Germany dances to a lighter rhythm

Blonde Barbarella Helene Fischer is the undisputed golden girl of German language pop

Anne Enright: How the world reads Irish writers

The newly appointed Laureate for Irish Fiction considers the reach of Irish books abroad – and what gets lost in translation

New Irish Writing comes to ‘The Irish Times’

The page founded by David Marcus, which launched the careers of many of our best known writers, has found a new home

‘Culture can provide home away from home for Irish in London’

First in new discussion series hosted by an Irish journalist in London will feature public interview with historian Roy Foster

The L factor: a literary ambassador for Ireland

Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction

Review: The Mariner

Hugo Hamilton’s nuanced first World War drama looks at the family fallout after the return of an injured sailor

What’s on around Ireland this weekend

Galway Oyster Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival and New Ross Piano Festival

Dublin Theatre Festival to stage work stretching from the epic to the intimate

Programme divides evenly between Irish and international work