From Anne Enright to Dr Seuss: eight of the best books to read at Christmas
These books will leave both adults and children feeling a little bit more festive
Maeve Binchy
Decayed Centenary - Frank McNally on the history of Irish brain rot
A rather uninspired choice as Oxford University Press word of the year? Maybe not
Fintan O’Toole on his career: ‘You had to learn to live with the fact that some people despised you’
The Irish Times columnist has made a new documentary about his life for RTÉ. Here he looks back on a career that he began as the Michelangelo of Tipp-Ex
Maeve Binchy’s childhood home in Glenageary for €1.2m
Five-bedroom Victorian home in sought-after location retains many original features
David Marcus, The Irish Times and a golden age of literary journalism
Even at a time of much cross-fertilisation between the literary and journalistic worlds, it was a brave and radical idea to run a regular creative-writing page in a daily newspaper. In pursuing this, David Marcus nurtured many young talents
‘A place in the country’: Getaway where Colm Tóibín and Maeve Binchy were entertained on the market for €435,000
Laois home of late Irish Times literary editor Caroline Walsh and writer and professor James Ryan
Two Lives of St Brigid; Warriors, Rebels & Saints; Homage: A Salute to 50 Memorable Minds
Books in brief: New works by Philip Freeman, Moshik Temkin and John Quinn
Rebecca Ivory: ‘I don’t know if I’d be a writer if I were born into a different family’
The author on people who repeat their mistakes, her grandfather’s cartoon and her admiration for John Candy’s character in Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Gordon Snell on his wife, Maeve Binchy: ‘We rejoiced in each other’s successes. Neither of us felt at all jealous’
The two writers were perfectly suited to one another, as they quickly discovered after meeting. Snell will always appreciate his good fortune
In the 1980s I loved many men. I’d completely overlooked the women
Our series celebrating 50 years of women’s writing surveys the fiction, poetry and nonfiction of the early 1980s
From vibrators to Repeal jumpers, communion dresses and fake tan: A history of Irish women in 50 objects
We’re objectifying Irish women but in an illuminating, celebratory way to mark International Women’s Day 2023
Dominic Dromgoole Q&A: ‘It is absurd and disproportionate how much great dramatic writing has emerged from Ireland’
Director has written a book celebrating notable theatre first nights
Press Up co-founder puts architect-designed Lad Lane home on the market for €1.775m
Matt Ryan’s Dublin 2 house was reimagined to capitalise on its canalside location, a few doors down from where Ryan’s mother, the late Caroline Walsh, grew up
The Objects of Love exhibition – the story of one Jewish family before, during and after the Holocaust
Future generations must be reminded of what is done in the name of hate
Rosita Boland: ‘Am I annoying you, love?’ If you’re asking, you already know
Don’t call me love, and other maddening conversations with strangers
Alan Cumming on abuse: ‘I am better, but it is like a wound that is never going to go away’
The actor’s second memoir is neither tell-all nor reckoning. But it contains multitudes nonetheless
My life has changed immeasurably... Ireland and the UK have changed too
Former BBC journalist James Helm on a special bond with Ireland that has sustained his family through tragedy and change
Des O’Malley obituary: Key political player thought by some as ‘best taoiseach Ireland never had’
Limerick politician split from Fianna Fáil to form influential Progressive Democrats
Extortionists used personal ads in £5m ransom demand over foot-and-mouth disease
The HSE ransomware attack is not the first time the State has faced extortion threats
Caroline O’Donoghue: ‘My luck has turned so quickly I have whiplash’
After Cork writer’s double job loss, a big publishing deal was on cards for tarot-focused novel
Paul Howard: Ten things I’ve learned writing Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
I have changed Ireland in one small way – causing the demise of the name Ross
An Irish playwright in New York: Lines remain unlearned, curtains unraised, seats unfilled
I’ll write to make the actors cry again – laugh, too. We’ll need a laugh after this
Painting Dublin: A visual history of Ireland’s capital city
Before now, emphasis was placed on rural landscape and western seaboard in Irish art. This book takes a very different approach
Forget social media. Nothing beats a real Christmas card
It’s a small gesture that can mean a lot. It can also contribute to your family history
The indomitable woman of Irish journalism – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Mary Maher
Pioneering journalist, trade unionist and feminist activist
How nuns schooled today’s torch-bearers of feminism
A generation of female superheroes in tartan skirts and gabardines
Olive: Olive branches for women in their 30s
Book review: Emma Gannon’s smart debut novel looks at the decision to be childfree
Anne Enright: Nuala O’Faolain was an impossible person, to whom we owe so much
Older feminists are not always delighted when the young enjoy freedoms they fought for
Marian Keyes: ‘What doesn’t kill us makes us funnier’
The writer on Irishness, feminism, mental health and happy endings
Irish priest working with Syrian refugees appeals for help
Fr William Stuart says situation is critical in Lebanon camp. ‘People are starving’
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