Dermot Bolger

A sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages

Events across Dublin city from feature Blindboy and play ‘My Father’s Kind’

The actor will be honoured at this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

Here’s what the theatre and creative talent will talk about when they meet tonight

Ulysses in the Abbey; Fred and Alice in the Viking Theatre, Clontarf

Writer ‘pushed the boundaries of Irish language literature through his dynamic prose’

In this weeks’s theatre, a frightful creature becomes a useful friend, an old fable is laced up to fit new times, and one eccentric Dubliner finally becomes a legend

What’s on: theatre and music and the best TV

Murfi keeps travelling in The Man in Woman’s Shoes and women in the second World War

The sprawling, shape-shifting puzzle of Ulysses here becomes a series of theatrical parlour games

Plaque erected to Thomas Dudley, a playful son of the city who always stuck to his guns

Francis Ledwidge commemorated in day to mark battle that cost 500,000 casualties

Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’

Marcus Connaughton leaves ‘niche’ radio show with ‘remarkable following’ after 15 years

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

National day of commemoration to remember death of poet killed at Passchendaele

Michael D Higgins among those to attend funeral of Irish poet who died aged 88

Publisher Dermot Bolger reflects on encouragement visible from teenage years

Many library users need assistance and libraries have to be staffed by those with knowledge to be true to their mission

Cronin has had many lives: as a bar-stool confidant to Irish literary giants, adviser to Haughey and a renowned poet

Merchant crews braved Nazi attacks to keep supply routes open. One also made the most amazing sea rescue ever by an Irish ship – the inspiration for Dermot Bolger’s new novel

Chris Connolly wins Emerging Fiction prize, Jane Clarke wins Emerging Poetry award and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne inducted into Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame

John Brock (43) and John Roche (52) also accused of IRA membership

Poetry reviews: From a very strange house to a familiar city

Review: ‘The Right Hook’, ‘Breakfast’, ‘The Green Room’, ‘The Pat Kenny Show’, ‘Lighthouse Stories’

Taoiseach says Irish dead of the battle was ‘a loss that has transcended generations’

Review:‘Bright Sparks’, 'Liveline' and 'Pat Kenny Show'

This poem celebrates the 300th anniversary of the Mansion House as the residence of Dublin’s Lord Mayor

Andrew Flynn, Decadent Theatre Company’s director, has an unusual ability to combine artistic passion with the deal-clinching pitches of a travelling salesman

Seán McCann: May 7th, 1929 - February 24th, 2015

The page founded by David Marcus, which launched the careers of many of our best known writers, has found a new home

Review: A good year for Ryan Tubridy, Pat Kenny and Sean O’Rourke. But where are all the women presenters?

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

Book also tops British chart with 21,000 sales

When asked for this series, in competition with four other bargain hunters, to pick up an old item that could turn a profit, I set out to find a decent rare volume

David Dickson’s exploration of the city is a magnificent, and very readable, work of scholarship

If you doubt your characters, your readers will doubt them too, so it is important to understand characters’ motivation and make their behaviour and speech convincing

Irish authors tell us how and where they find inspiration for an idea strong enough to sustain a book, and how they go about turning that into an extended narrative

When my publisher told me in 1987 that one of my poems would appear on the then taoiseach’s Christmas cards, I thought he was joking