Writer Eithne Shortall: ‘We put Irish at the heart of family life, one bedtime story at a time’
Three years ago we decided to start speaking Irish to our young children – a steep learning curve for all involved – with leabhair Ghaeilge as a key feature
By Eithne Shortall
At Least It Looks Good from Space by Carl Kinsella: Between comedy and calamity
The Silver Book by Olivia Laing: A timely exploration of the persistence of art under political duress
A terrific colourised history of rural Ireland; and the Limerick cleric who founded Hibs
The Dinner Party revels in exposing what lies beneath
Solvej Balle: ‘I thought that if I started to write this, I would spoil it’
‘Prone to lose the run of himself’: Ireland’s taoisigh, from de Valera to Micheál Martin
Hugo Hamilton: ‘I love speaking Irish. It places me in a less aggressive country full of musical links to an ancient past’
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POETRY
Aphorisms are the oldest written art form on the planet, perfectly suited to our digital age
By James Geary
Children’s fiction: Spooky stories, family fantasies, emotional monsters and a friendless Megalosaurus
By Sara Keating
Olivia Laing: ‘I’m interested in fluidity, complexity, ambivalence, and that’s true politically and socially too’
By John Self
Author Kevin Smith: ‘Whenever I leave the North I do feel a pull – a hankering for that coded familiarity’
By Martin Doyle
The Palestinians by Jonathan Dimbleby and Don McCullin: How the world’s inaction deepens tragedy
By John Walshe
New poetry: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin; Enda Wyley; Gregory Leadbetter; and Rosamund Taylor
By Declan Ryan
New crime fiction, including works by Marie Cassidy, Paul Bradley Carr and Chris Hadfield
By Declan Burke
