Dragons denied: Niall O’Farrell becomes the latest TV entrepreneur to face money woes
Plus: former Mary Lavin home back on market; John Collison’s castle life; and Declan Ganley’s conservative Roman party
Mary Lavin
The Enlightenment gave rise to a habit of worshipping ‘great men’, but they never had to worry about dying in childbirth
Unthinkable: Donald Trump is on a crusade to unwind the ‘woke’ agenda, but that does not mean the question of inclusivity is solved
Kathleen Lynn Hospital, Dolores O’Riordan Park and Catherine Corless Place: Readers on how we should honour Irish women
We asked Irish Times readers if there were any streets, buildings, places or structures in Ireland that they thought should be named, or renamed, after women
Ireland’s first public space named after a female writer is opened
Mary Lavin Place links Dublin’s Lad Lane – where the author and short story writer lived – to newly restored Wilton Park
Why are so few places and streets in Ireland named after women?
The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
Have your say on honouring Irish women: Are there any Irish streets, buildings, places or structures that should be named, or renamed, after women?
Which women should have places, streets or structures around Ireland named after them? We would like to hear your thoughts
Girl in the Making by Anna Fitzgerald: readers will feel for this sensitive, intuitive child
Debut novel absorbs from the opening chapter, following the story of Dublin girl Jean
Mary Lavin: ‘Writing for her was a kind of need. It was the thing that was going to get her through’
Mary Lavin’s short story, In the Middle of the Fields, has been adopted rather than adapted as a play
When a ‘dungeon’ on Leeson Street cost £2 a week and swarmed with literary life
A new book explores Dublin’s literary past, an active part of living or working in the city
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan: a timely and powerful book
A fresh and sensitive perspective on an awful period in Ireland’s collective history
Ann Ingle: ‘People don’t think about older people as exciting’
Author talks about her memoir, Openhearted, and defying expectations as she gets older
Poetic Parishes – Frank McNally on a new book about Baggotonia and the new Kavanagh museum in Inniskeen
An Irishman’s Diary
In the Middle of the Fields review: A timeless tale with a #MeToo edge
Premiere staging of Mary Lavin’s story of grief and vulnerability strikes just right note
Fintan O’Toole: Spiritual terrorism created world of mother and baby homes
There was no ‘society’ separate from the church’s power to inflict damnation
Sinead Moriarty: On My Culture Radar
Author on her Orla Walsh prints, Sinead Burke’s podcast, and why Netflix’s Money Heist is a runaway hit
First look inside the new Museum of Literature Ireland
MoLI in Newman House, Dublin opens this month featuring Joyce’s notebooks and more
First look: Bewley’s on Grafton Street reopens after €12m renovation
The buns are back, but the big mugs of milky coffee are gone
Anthony Cronin: last link to Dublin’s bohemian literary world
Tributes paid to poet’s part in setting up Aosdána to help artists and writers
Poet and critic Anthony Cronin dies aged 88
Co Wexford born writer served as an arts adviser to former taoiseach Charles Haughey
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1946 – The Becker Wives, by Mary Lavin
The four stories in this fine collection by an unpredictable, taboo-breaching writer capture a mood of struggling with confinement
In praise of Mary Lavin, by Belinda McKeon
Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘She depicted with immense power the inner lives of women’
Looking for a pulse among dead Irish writers
Dublin Writers Museum opened 22 years ago to celebrate the capital’s literary tradition but it now feels more like a mausoleum
Edna O’Brien: informed by Chekhov, inspired by vulnerability
This masterful writer’s rural-Ireland background invariably emerges from her sophisticated portraits of female sensibility
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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