William Trevor

Making The Ballroom of Romance in Co Mayo: ‘Even passing it today, I still think I can hear the music in it’

In this series, Rosita Boland visits places in Ireland where films were made and assesses the legacy they left behind

Sun Jul 23 2023 - 06:00

The 47th Saturday review: Nicely paced but vocal projection is overdone

Wexford Festival Opera: Young cast cope well with demands of Andrew Synnott’s music

Tue Oct 26 2021 - 15:00

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan: a timely and powerful book

A fresh and sensitive perspective on an awful period in Ireland’s collective history

Sun Oct 24 2021 - 06:00

What can we do about surly urban teens? A dose of generic muck savagery will sort them

Raised by the Village teaches us we should all be socialists in order to raise teenagers

Fri Oct 11 2019 - 05:00

The best of Eileen Battersby, from Tolstoy to Paul Simon

Our late literary correspondent on Darina Allen, Martin Amis, Nigel Kennedy and more

Sat Dec 29 2018 - 06:00

The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’

US author James Mustich says the book that took him 14 years to write should be thought of as a kind of imaginary bookshop

Tue Dec 04 2018 - 05:00

In praise of Autumn: Ireland is not a summery nation

As everything turns a deathly brown, it feels unpatriotic to favour any other season

Fri Sept 14 2018 - 05:00

Paul Simon: Farewell and thank you to a near mythic troubadour

Paul Simon’s last Irish concert the RDS Dublin will be an intense, emotional evening

Fri Jul 13 2018 - 06:27

Daniel O'Donnell teasing Ireland's most excitable Mammies? It's pure filth

From Yeats and Maud Gonne to Daniel and Majella, romantic Ireland isn't dead and gone

Sun Feb 11 2018 - 05:00

The world’s greatest – but probably least-known – Irish library

Film star Grace Kelly's roots prompted her to collect Irish literature, including rare editions of Joyce, Beckett and Shaw

Thu Dec 14 2017 - 10:31

In praise of Jennifer Johnston

Irish Times Blook Club: Novelist has chronicled the family across a century of troubled Irish history

Wed Jun 14 2017 - 11:00

Maeve Brennan: loneliness elevated to an art form

Eileen Battersby reviews The Long-Winded Lady, Maeve Brennan’s New Yorker sketches, as part of our extensive coverage marking today's centenary of her birth

Fri Jan 06 2017 - 05:00

Fintan O’Toole’s cultural highlights: ‘A great year for the elderly’

Culture review 2016: Seanad National Museum land grab shows depths of philistinism in our political culture

Thu Dec 22 2016 - 09:27

William Trevor: The master who hid his art

He could always reinvent and refresh his imagination and surprise his readers in story after story, novel after novel

Wed Nov 23 2016 - 00:00

Senator Rose Conway-Walsh leads Seanad tributes to William Trevor

Late writer commended for ‘wonderful contribution to literature and Ireland’

Tue Nov 22 2016 - 22:10

William Trevor made the ordinary and familiar, new and shocking

Trevor was a world class writer who chronicled the lives of the forgotten, the despairing losers, the innocent and the devious, the lonely and the unloved

Mon Nov 21 2016 - 20:01

William Trevor: Writers are outsiders with no place in society

Obituary: Writer of ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ and novelist made Irish themes universal

Mon Nov 21 2016 - 16:26

William Trevor, award-winning writer, dies at the age of 88

Writer was born in Mitchelstown in Co Cork and educated at Trinity College Dublin

Mon Nov 21 2016 - 15:28

Bob Dylan’s Nobel: Better to have gone to a ‘complete unknown’?

If the academy wanted to honour a music icon, Paul Simon would be a better choice

Thu Oct 13 2016 - 19:08

Joseph Hone: Accomplished travel writer and novelist

John Ford film gave Hone a valuable masterclass in storytelling

Sat Sept 03 2016 - 01:10

The original Jaws resurfaces in Sligo

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the auction house . . . A first edition of Jaws and a drawing by its author are snapped up

Sat Jul 16 2016 - 00:00

First edition of banned Lady Chatterley’s Lover goes on sale today

How a retired book-collecting Sligo GP managed to get a copy of DH Lawrence’s banned book while still at school

Sat Jul 09 2016 - 00:00

Shelf life: writers take us through their collections

Ahead of this year’s Dublin Book Festival, we ask some of the participating authors to tell us the stories behind the books in their personal collections

Wed Nov 11 2015 - 06:00

Eileen Battersby on Friel: ‘Astonishing, a privilege’

‘Our world is better for having had Brian Friel in it and now seems a lot smaller’

Fri Oct 02 2015 - 21:49

Imogen Stuart, Edna O’Brien and William Trevor elected Saoithe

Aosdána honour given by President Higgins for singular, sustained distinction in arts

Wed Sept 16 2015 - 01:00

The L factor: a literary ambassador for Ireland

Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction

Wed Nov 05 2014 - 01:00

Who should become the first Laureate for Irish Fiction?

Eimear McBride, Jennifer Johnston and Kevin Barry are some of the names that have been suggested in response to the Arts Council’s call for nominees for its new three-year, €150,000 role. The judges will announce their decision in January

Sat Sept 13 2014 - 01:00

Baseball legend who hits home runs on the page

‘New Yorker’ writer Roger Angell is the game’s undisputed poet laureate

Mon Jul 28 2014 - 01:00

Mayo writer Colin Barrett wins Frank O’Connor award with debut collection

Barrett is just second Irish winner of the €25,000 prize, after Edna O’Brien

Fri Jul 11 2014 - 11:20

Romance endures in Leitrim ballroom

Hall immortalised by writer William Trevor now reinvented as tourist attraction

Sat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00

Poison and intrigue in past and present China

When Yiyun Li left China, at the age of 24, she couldn’t speak English. Now, nearly two decades later, she is recognised as one of its most perceptive contemporary writers

Sat Apr 12 2014 - 01:00