‘Covid got to him before I did. By the time I found out, it was too late to attend the funeral’
Frank McNally: A lockdown project resulted in a letter from a long-lost schoolmate
Frank McNally: A lockdown project resulted in a letter from a long-lost schoolmate
An Irishman’s Diary
Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce
An Irishman’s Diary
There’s a lot more to this Border county than Patrick Kavanagh’s stony grey soil
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
The singer on a Stephen Fry podcast and why The World at War should be mandatory viewing
Seven well known readers and writers share the books they'll be giving and getting this Christmas
The best picks from this year’s selection of theatre, street spectacle and quirky surprise
Critics’ circle awards wrap up Dublin International Film Festival 2019
The artist and political activist has written his ‘reluctant memoir’ at 75. It’s dominated by one major absence: his wife and artistic compass, Betty, who died in 2011
Vatican photograph from 2007 captures church past and questions its future
The loans were made to the couple in 2008 by Anglo Irish Bank
Ceremony in Inniskeen celebrates ‘Stony Grey Soil’ poet 50 years after his death
Patrick Pye, a religious artist who has fading sight, deemed ineligible for stipend
Author writes six-page letter to Arts Council describing proposals as ‘oddly North Korean’
Alan McMonagle’s enthralling debut follows an Irish teenager trying to imagine a better life
The collective works in our series show how molten and defiant Irish artworks can be
Corcadorca’s latest production, ‘Sacrifice at Easter’, is set in Cork’s 17th-century Elizabeth Fort and the play is as much about the site as the script
Roddy Doyle’s novel about a 10-year-old whose parents’ marriage is falling apart reveals the dark secret that the writer had been a literary novelist all along
The former teacher’s dark masterpiece gives a disconcerting but compelling voice to the mistreated children who were Ireland’s darkest secret
To mark the publication of Dermot Healy’s Collected Short Stories and Fighting with Shadows, the editors, Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper, offer reflections on a writer’s writer
The nature of last Sunday’s match made it Mayo’s story but what about the Dublin fans?
Garda asks Ceann Comhairle to remove his name after accusation
Aosdána told cut in funding an illustration of the arts’ ‘peripheral’ place in Irish society
Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction
This week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut author
Five Go on a Treasure Hunt: We gave five treasure hunters €100 each and sent them off to flea markets and car-boot sales to seek bargains. So how much would the five items fetch at auction? The news is not good
Its days are numbered unless the GAA issues a reprieve – I’m all for the whales. But let’s save Clones too
Cartographer Garrett Carr has drawn maps of the Border that ignore political divisions and instead chart how people in the region interact with the landscape
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices