The Irish Times

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?

Sat May 15 2021 - 00:00

The Iron Age review: steely portrait of postwar Finland

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

Sat May 13 2017 - 06:00

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

Sat Apr 29 2017 - 00:01

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

Sat Apr 30 2016 - 01:00

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

Eight Irish writers’ monologues create a moving theatrical tapestry

Sun Apr 24 2016 - 21:59

Irish writers commemorate Proclamation signatories

Theatre project will mark Rising centenary with production in Kilmainham Gaol

Wed Mar 23 2016 - 01:00

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

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

Fri Aug 28 2015 - 07:23

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

Sun Feb 01 2015 - 11:00

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

Sat Jan 24 2015 - 01:00

‘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

Fri Nov 14 2014 - 12:42

The L factor: a literary ambassador for Ireland

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

Wed Nov 05 2014 - 01:00

Review: The Mariner

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

Wed Oct 01 2014 - 17:06

What’s on around Ireland this weekend

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

Fri Sept 26 2014 - 21:57

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

Programme divides evenly between Irish and international work

Tue Jul 22 2014 - 01:00

What to read on holiday in the US, France and Germany

In the first of a series, we recommend some destination-specific titles for summer trips abroad, with help from our correspondents

Sun Jun 08 2014 - 01:00

Impac winner Jon McGregor is big draw on European Literature Night

MacGill Summer School and West Cork Literary Festival news

Fri May 09 2014 - 15:01

Poetry of Rita Ann Higgins on Cúirt literary trail in Galway

Booker prize winning author among participants in week-long event

Wed Apr 09 2014 - 08:40

Hugo Hamilton’s new book travels into strange and slightly spooky literary territory. It’s a fictionalised account of a trip to Berlin that he made with his fellow writer Nuala O’Faolain just before her death, from cancer, in May 2008

Sat Feb 22 2014 - 01:00