The Irish Times

Your favourite artwork from 2016

To celebrate the close of the Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks series we asked you to pick your favourite artwork of last year

Mon Jan 09 2017 - 14:30

Writers’ view of Rising far from rose-tinted

Ever since the seismic events of 1916 Irish artists have taken a nuanced view of events

Fri Apr 29 2016 - 12:52

Shakespeare and me: Irish writers on the Bard's best bits

Some admirers celebrate the playwright’s work on the 400th anniversary of his death

Sat Apr 23 2016 - 01:00

Cúirt; Fish Short Story winners; Gavin Corbett at TCD; Cork World Book Fest

Dublin Shakespeare Society; Kevin Curran reading; All-Ireland Poetry Day; Trinity talk on Derry authors; hunger strike talk at UCD

Thu Mar 31 2016 - 14:36

Can writing be taught? The proof is in the publications

Perhaps the question to ask is, do writing courses produce writers? Belinda McKeon, Colin Barrett, Claire Kilroy, Sara Baume, Andrew Fox ... so that’ll be a yes

Sun Mar 01 2015 - 11:38

Five Irish novels on Impac longlist

Books nominated by public libraries for consideration include 142 novels

Mon Nov 24 2014 - 12:41

Stranger than fiction: when crime captures the imagination

Nicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroad

Fri Apr 04 2014 - 01:00

Imagination in the classroom – and how, in the past, schools destroyed creativity

Forget the inspirational teachers and creative encouragement that many writers experienced at school. Playwright Frank McGuinness recalls a schooling in the 1950s and 60s that sickens his stomach, and ‘beat the lining out of any love for exploring the intricacies of language’

Tue Mar 11 2014 - 02:00