‘God’s feet’ bring a pungent odour to Tom Dunne’s Newstalk studio
Radio review: Helming proceedings at a leisurely, good-natured pace, Dunne makes Seán Moncrieff sound like a Stasi interrogator in comparison
Radio review: Helming proceedings at a leisurely, good-natured pace, Dunne makes Seán Moncrieff sound like a Stasi interrogator in comparison
The author on writing, living in the Sligo countryside and how digitalisation is warping our sense of reality
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann statement calls for release of hostages and protection of the lives and human rights of all innocent people
Ireland event guide May 31st-June 6th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Anne Enright, Sarah Gilmartin, Kevin Barry and Paula Meehan are among the writers who contributed to this beautiful collection
Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter and Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits make six-strong shortlist
When I was an impoverished student sustained by Pot Noodles, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature introduced me to literature I would not have encountered otherwise
Dublin, Written in Our Hearts, which marks 20 years of One Dublin, One Book, features Anne Enright, Roddy Doyle, Belinda McKeon, Paula Meehan and Kevin Barry
March 29th-April 4th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
New slate will also feature Marina Carr’s The Boy, and work from Barbara Bergin
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts to select the best Irish books of the years 2000-2025. Here’s how we did it
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts – authors, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers and journalists – to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of the years 2000-2025
It’s commonly believed that our future will become more digitalised, but it’s equally possible that nuclear war would allow a complete reset
Kevin Barry, Aingeala Flannery, Lucy Caldwell and more contribute to ambitious collection
At its best, the story careers along like a Coen brothers film; in weaker moments Tarantino bulls in
With his fourth novel about to be published, the author is now one of the most influential Irish writers
June 1st-7th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
The comedian on making it in the US and Ireland’s ‘overlooked, undervalued’ women
World records for Clarke’s Bluebeard’s Last Wife and Hone’s Composition
TV review: May is charming but the cliches come thick and fast in this Sky Arts doc
December 6th to 12th, 2021: The best of the week’s culture events, right around Ireland
Negotiations behind the foundation of the Irish State are staged at the NCH
Writers from Alice Munro to JD Salinger mine their dangerous passions and restless ennui
A new book looks at the wealth we have in our Irish country towns
Hard to focus on anything other than constant threat of pneumonia at Dr Hyde Park
Check out the Night Boat to Tangier author’s playlist of songs he’s been listening to lately
Wide range of historical Irish advertising material from single collector at Sheppard’s
Cork suffered most deaths (557), followed by Dublin (360), Antrim (232), Tipperary (158)
An uncompromising stance on the Treaty negotiations was indelibly formed by the experience of watching her brother, Terence MacSwiney, die on hunger strike
Old hurts and grievances are aired in Lisa McInerney's engaging third novel
Mid-1700s painting of ancestor of owner Xandria Williams among more than 800 lots
Soundtrack of My Life: The musician on songs that made him feel less alone during lockdown
Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce
MusicTown is online-only for a second year, filling a creative void caused by the pandemic
‘I shouldn’t have written to you at all only it is the eve of our execution’ - Barney Ryan (20)
Radio review: The calmly forensic style of the host unpicks the Minister for Health’s assertions
Backlash left IRA reeling and enhanced British intelligence. Then talk turned to truce
‘Thanks to people like him, people like me don’t have to make such difficult decisions’
Council officers oppose move to honour Thomas Bryan, one of the ‘Forgotten 10’
Association honours new members in artforms such as writing, drama, dance and film
We are still living with the consequences of the Government of Ireland Act (1920)
Large plumes of smoke seen spiralling over derelict building near centre of Co Cork town
Conor Lane, an Irish cancer survivor living in the UK, reflects on a turbulent time
The events of the year and the feelings they engendered are still felt to the present day
It invokes such partiality that, 100 years later, untangling its knotted legacy is not easy
The year saw the War of Independence begins in earnest with an escalation of murder and violence by the British and IRA
Decade of Centenaries programme adapted for Covid-19 restrictions
The Mutiny of the Connaught Rangers in India was a military failure but a moral victory
This supplement provides a range of readings which can support teachers in bringing history learning outcomes to life
More than 200 artists back Amnesty International’s call for military embargo
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices