Emma Donoghue

Book review: Booker shortlisted novel is a damning assessment of the state of the world

Review: Alexandra Kleeman chills with an original, acerbic novel about a near-future apocalypse

Adaptation of Irish writer's novel is first film to be green-lit out of new London office

Complaints to department from parents, though some students defend novels

Book reviews: Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing and Queer Love are cause for celebration

There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can

Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown

Co-director of the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School helped to launch many acting careers

The author’s bestselling novel of confinement has new resonance during coronavirus

Along with the chronic physical illnesses of diabetes and fibromyalgia, Emma Donoghue (26) has had postnatal depression and anorexia to contend with. But life is slowly getting better

Today FM host acknowledges jaded public mood, while Jennifer Zamparelli reveals a gritty side of Irish life

Raymond Deane’s Vagabones dramatises one of the few witch trials to have ever taken place in Ireland

Yuga Wang makes her Irish debut, and Vagabones gets its first Irish airing

As a teacher, I have always known how tough the exams are. Reform is overdue

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

The ‘significant’ financial burden will have implications beyond cancelled events

A remarkable California teen comes to a realisation about her predatory father

The ‘Room’ author on making a musical version of her all-conquering book for the stage

In the final part of our series on influential books by women writers, we focus on Irish authors

How does life change for a film-maker who now has that gold man on the shelf?

‘Strange Occurrences in a Small Irish Village’ shows the power of religious iconography

The Dublin author’s book is an intensification of the common experience of having a child, in all its claustrophobic terror and glory

Eight Irish writers’ monologues create a moving theatrical tapestry

‘It’s not a historical piece. This is theatre.’ Here’s how Signatories took shape

Room sweeps the board with seven awards while Brooklyn takes two

Tanya Sweeney: Why waste the opportunity to bask in the famed glamour of Oscars night with total abandon?

Wins for one of the Irish films vying for best picture at tonight’s Academy Awards

Saoirse Ronan, Lenny Abrahamson and Emma Donoghue talk academy fantasies

‘The Revenant’ or ‘Room’? Leonardo DiCaprio or Michael Fassbender? Brie Larson or Saoirse Ronan? It’s the most unpredictable best-picture race in decades

Lenny Abrahamson’s Room and John Crowley’s Brooklyn vie for the best picture Oscar this weekend. They are part of a grand tradition

Best film goes to The Revenant – tale of survival from 19th century US frontier

Gavin McCrea’s research into the elusive, illiterate Lizzie Burns is now a historical novel

The glamorous stuff that gives the nation a lift is a byproduct of a messy, dynamic creative ecosystem full of knowns and unknowns

Irish success at Academy Awards shows the value of both cultural planning and self-belief

Pundits underestimated films’ potential ahead of Academy Awards announcement

Sylvester Stallone takes best supporting actor for ‘Creed’ in Los Angeles ceremony

Donald Clarke previews Sunday night’s award ceremony in Los Angeles

There's a nod to visual art, the stage, and even a robot-themed 3D printing company in Gemma Tipton's selection of people to watch in the arts this year

Why does the London Film Critics’ Circle refer to Irish actors as British? It’s baffling