The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 25 to No 1
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
Kevin Barry
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: how we made the list and what it says about the state of Irish fiction
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts to select the best Irish books of the years 2000-2025. Here’s how we did it
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 50 to No 26
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 100 to No 51
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts – authors, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers and journalists – to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of the years 2000-2025
A Brave New Ireland: How dystopias can reflect the state of Ireland and the West
It’s commonly believed that our future will become more digitalised, but it’s equally possible that nuclear war would allow a complete reset
Winter Papers: This handsome volume, now in its 10th issue, is full of wakeful, creative energy
Kevin Barry, Aingeala Flannery, Lucy Caldwell and more contribute to ambitious collection
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry: A vaudeville masterpiece, gaudy, ragged and irrepressible
At its best, the story careers along like a Coen brothers film; in weaker moments Tarantino bulls in
Kevin Barry: ‘I didn’t publish a book till I was 37. I thought I must have been an awful f*cking waster’
With his fourth novel about to be published, the author is now one of the most influential Irish writers
The Guide: Kilkenny Cat Laughs, Forbidden Fruit and more events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
June 1st-7th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Maeve Higgins: ‘Irish people are treated as some kind of miracle when they do well abroad’
The comedian on making it in the US and Ireland’s ‘overlooked, undervalued’ women
Records broken for Irish art in ‘thriving market’ of 2021
World records for Clarke’s Bluebeard’s Last Wife and Hone’s Composition
Voices of Ireland: Imelda May presents the Carroll’s gift shop version of Irish culture
TV review: May is charming but the cliches come thick and fast in this Sky Arts doc
Gig of the Week: Treaty – Songs, with Christy Moore, Lisa O’Neill and more
December 6th to 12th, 2021: The best of the week’s culture events, right around Ireland
A century on: Dramatising the drama that led to Anglo-Irish Treaty
Negotiations behind the foundation of the Irish State are staged at the NCH
Bored teenagers at home? Here are 10 stories that capture the do-nothing years
Writers from Alice Munro to JD Salinger mine their dangerous passions and restless ennui
‘We don’t realise what we have.’ In praise of the ‘majestic’ rural Irish town
A new book looks at the wealth we have in our Irish country towns
Ciarán Murphy: nothing beats sitting in a biblical deluge in Roscommon
Hard to focus on anything other than constant threat of pneumonia at Dr Hyde Park
Kevin Barry’s Spotify playlist: ‘State of Independence by Donna Summer always ended the night’
Check out the Night Boat to Tangier author’s playlist of songs he’s been listening to lately
Vintage Irish ads sale: From Aer Lingus-flying turkeys to Santa’s Tayto
Wide range of historical Irish advertising material from single collector at Sheppard’s
No one felt safe anywhere in Ireland during the first seven months of 1921
Cork suffered most deaths (557), followed by Dublin (360), Antrim (232), Tipperary (158)
Mary MacSwiney: The mourning sister who turned to politics
An uncompromising stance on the Treaty negotiations was indelibly formed by the experience of watching her brother, Terence MacSwiney, die on hunger strike
The Rules of Revelation: Violence and verve in modern-day Cork
Old hurts and grievances are aired in Lisa McInerney's engaging third novel
Eclectic contents sale from lodge owned by first breeder of alpaca in Ireland
Mid-1700s painting of ancestor of owner Xandria Williams among more than 800 lots
David Kitt: ‘I listened to Irish acts when I was on my own in a new city, craving home’
Soundtrack of My Life: The musician on songs that made him feel less alone during lockdown
House in Joyce’s The Dead to be turned into hostel despite Tóibín appeal
Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce
Leagues O’Toole: ‘We need to give artists a sense of self-worth’
MusicTown is online-only for a second year, filling a creative void caused by the pandemic
Last letters of executed republican released to mark centenary
‘I shouldn’t have written to you at all only it is the eve of our execution’ - Barney Ryan (20)
Claire Byrne’s inconvenient facts burst Stephen Donnelly’s bubble
Radio review: The calmly forensic style of the host unpicks the Minister for Health’s assertions
Diarmaid Ferriter: Bloody Sunday 1920 changed British attitudes to Ireland
Backlash left IRA reeling and enhanced British intelligence. Then talk turned to truce
Ardal O’Hanlon on his grandfather’s Bloody Sunday role: ‘He was one of the good guys’
‘Thanks to people like him, people like me don’t have to make such difficult decisions’
Dispute over War of Independence plaque at Dublin tenement museum
Council officers oppose move to honour Thomas Bryan, one of the ‘Forgotten 10’
Twelve artists elected to Aosdána
Association honours new members in artforms such as writing, drama, dance and film
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