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Stuart Maconie is proud of his country. But after travelling it to write The Full English, he’d like it to focus on being happy, healthy and progressive
Kazuo Ishiguro
The serial hoaxer who fooled Morning Ireland with fake news of Kazuo Ishiguro’s death
An Italian journalist falsely reported the death of the author on Twitter
Andrew Garfield: ‘I needed to be with these freaks and lunatics’
Now starring in The Eyes of Tammy Faye the former web-slinger is tipped for an Oscar
The Love Makers by Aifric Campbell: Ethical quandaries of a sex robot
Unique novel of big ideas considers advances in technology and where they might take us
Jennifer O’Connell: Margaret Atwood is not the biggest threat to your children’s wellbeing
Yes, schools should be a safe place, as the callers to Liveline insisted. But safe does not mean sanitised
Douglas Stuart wins 2020 Booker Prize for Shuggie Bain
Debut author is second Scot to win with very personal tale of poverty and addiction
Book quiz: ‘A plague on both your houses’ is from which Shakespeare play?
Welcome to The Irish Times book quiz: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge
Annabelle Comyn: On My Culture Radar
The theatre director on how Derek Jarman and Parasite fed into her play Our New Girl
Rosita Boland: What I’ve learned from 30 years travelling the world
Exclusive extract from Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel
Nobel Prize in Literature to be awarded twice this year
Award to be given to 2018 and 2019 laureates after last year’s prize was postponed
Kazuo Ishiguro: Knighthood part of ‘big love affair with Britain’
Nobel Prize-winning author of ‘The Remains of the Day’ received knighthood for services to literature
Finding sanctuary, and love, in the wilds of Connemara
Ann Henning Jocelyn came to Ireland in the 80s to write, and settled in Doon House, where Poet Laureate Ted Hughes once lived after Sylvia Plath’s death
My Leaving Cert: ‘The marathon is over – now it is time to sprint’
Síofradh O’Sullivan is trying to remain composed ahead of the exam starting gun
The Floating World review: Shelter from the storm
New fiction: An excellent debut charts a family’s chaos in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Theresa May can stay for as long as she chooses
Like an Ishiguro character, the PM could string this out for longer than seems feasible
UCD gets Connemara film and sound archive of artists and poets
Clifden Community Arts Festival donates 40-year ‘sociological record’ of the arts
Leaving Cert English: Detail on Paul Durcan a challenge in an hour
Relief as contemporary Irish poet appears but teacher queries range required
The Buried Giant review: Kazuo Ishiguro could use some ogres
Booker-winner Ishiguro’s new novel, apparently set in post-Roman Britain, is a muddle wrapped in an enigma dunked in an allegory, and as plodding as its protagonists’ journey
Archive of human rights activist to be unveiled at NUI Galway
A visit to Detroit reminded Kevin Boyle ‘of the ghettos of Belfast’
How well do you know your Booker opening lines?
In the week that the 2014 Man Booker Prize was announced, see if you can match these opening lines to their Booker winning novels
Leaving Cert English 2: Heaney goes astray
Writer shows up Unseen Poetry and not in Prescribed Poetry - as many were expecting
Art for therapy’s sake: can books and paintings cure what ails us?
Need to find a painting that can calm you in moments of stress? Or a book that can cure cynicism or a tendency to prevaricate? The use of art and literature as therapy is an old idea, but it’s making a comeback
Young British novelists: The best young writers who have been taken for Granta
Granta has published its list of the best young British novelists, but can one publisher define a generation and what do young writers have over their older colleagues?
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