Nicola Pierce: ‘I started to write Great Irish Wives without any idea I would be a widow by the time it went to print’
The author on losing her husband, writing two books about the Titanic, and her love of Jo March
Brendan Behan
The Houses of Guinness: Hotbeds of scandal, from Ashford Castle to ‘Heartbreak House’
A tome of architectural brilliance, uncomfortable historical truths and a complicated legacy of power and philanthropy
Dublin Gothic at the Abbey review: Prepare for some archly provocative character assassination
Barbara Bergin’s huge, complex new play takes aim at some Irish heroes as it covers a century of life in the capital
Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s silver tea service up for sale
London auction house says it would be wonderful if an Irish institution acquired the Kilkea native’s silverware
For Irish women writers, James Joyce was never a shadow but a light
Many Irish women writers have engaged with Joyce - both challenging and building on his legacy in their fiction. In studying them, I was also studying myself
Dedicated to the one I hate: Frank McNally on how a book inscription came back to haunt Patrick Kavanagh
Signed first American edition of Tarry Flynn is dedicated to ‘poet and painter’ Brendan Behan
Greek composer and politician Mikis Theodorakis transcended borders of the mind
This year marks the centenary of the composer, who wrote scores for Zorba the Greek, Z and Serpico and became a national icon
Ballet Go Backwards – Frank McNally on Patrick Kavanagh’s short-lived career as a dance librettist
This strange incident came about because of another surprising phenomenon little remembered today
Irish artist Michael Kane: ‘Patrick Kavanagh did nothing else but create art. And that was my ideal’
The Project Arts Centre founder, who is marking his 90th birthday with a solo show, is a firm believer in the idea that art truly matters. He lives fully surrounded by it
A literary stroll: Frank McNally explores the streets of Dublin’s north inner city
I like to imagine Emily Dickinson sitting on the Royal Canal bench discussing punctuation with Brendan Behan
Poet Grace Wilentz: ‘Ireland has been very generous to me. There’s an abundance of fresh air and bookstores and intellectual stimulation’
The New York-born poet on having resilience foisted upon her as a teenager when both of her parents died
A critique of those who have opinions on everything but do very little about anything
You may find the following attitude strange from an ex-theatre critic
David Marcus, The Irish Times and a golden age of literary journalism
Even at a time of much cross-fertilisation between the literary and journalistic worlds, it was a brave and radical idea to run a regular creative-writing page in a daily newspaper. In pursuing this, David Marcus nurtured many young talents
Dublin portal reminds us that our capital has an uneasy edge of wildness
Fintan O’Toole: The erection of the portal linking night-time inner city Dublin to daytime New York was a heroic act of denial
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices