The Irish Times

Conversations with Friends: How we made the new Sally Rooney TV drama

Director Lenny Abrahamson and cast talk about adapting the author’s debut novel

Sat May 07 2022 - 06:05

Irish teenager is youngest recipient in Queen Elizabeth’s birthday honours

Undertones frontman Feargal Sharkey is made an OBE in this year’s list

Sat Jun 08 2019 - 17:36

Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I was offered some very high-profile prestige movies’

The Dubliner on the exhausting success of Room, anti-Semitism and his ghostly The Little Stranger

Sat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00

Lenny Abrahamson to direct Sally Rooney adaptation for BBC

Novelist to bring her own work to small screen with Oscar-nominated Irishman

Wed Aug 22 2018 - 09:45

Virgin Media greenlights sponsorship of Dublin film festival

Broadband provider will back event for next three years

Mon Aug 20 2018 - 17:16

100 books by women you have to read

Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list

Mon Jun 04 2018 - 16:14

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock review: Historical fiction at its finest

A stellar debut set in Georgian London blends mythical sea creatures and merchant life

Sat Jan 20 2018 - 06:00

Sugar Money review: vivid depiction of Caribbean slavery

Jane Harris’s third novel is an unashamedly old-school adventure story in the vein of Robert Louis Stevenson

Sat Oct 21 2017 - 06:00

Female voices to fore in first half of Cannes Film Festival

Maren Ade’s ‘Toni Erdmann’ is a strong early contender for Palme d’Or

Sun May 15 2016 - 19:45

The cobwebs are blown off the English curriculum

A revamped list of texts has been brought in at secondary level. But is it too modern?

Wed Sept 02 2015 - 06:00

Sarah Waters: ‘I kind of missed the lesbian stuff’

The historical novelist has set her new book in the 1920s, fresh territory for her. It is ‘a love story complicated by crime’

Thu Sept 04 2014 - 01:00

Lenny talks Frank: the movie that won't give him a big head

In Lenny Abrahamson’s latest film, Michael Fassbender plays the lead character from inside a huge papier-mache head. The Irish director gives us the lowdown on the notorious noggin, his ‘Celtic Tiger Trilogy’ and more

Fri May 02 2014 - 00:00