Next Year Will Be a Good One by Shivaun O’Casey: Life in the benevolent shadow of Seán O’Casey
More important than any encomium from this quarter, Seán O’Casey’s daughter diligently captures his life and legacy
Samuel Beckett
Brought to book: Alison Healy on some unwise rejections of authors’ manuscripts by publishers
An American publisher dismissed them as unfunny, senseless and dull
Staging Beckett in London by Matthew McFrederick: New study traces 70 years of productions
A meticulously researched history argues that Godot’s dominance has overshadowed Beckett’s wider theatrical legacy
Playwright Seán O’Casey’s daughter: ‘He never seemed old to me... he was quite adventurous’
Seán O’Casey’s daughter Shivaun, a living link to one of our most famous playwrights, has written a memoir that includes previously unpublished letters from her father
Bringing the Ukraine war to its endgame is going to mean messy compromises
Hard choices about territory, security, language rights, alliances, sanctions and resources are required
Irish couple to stage six-hour-long Beckett play with no punctuation at Venice Biennale
Husband-and-wife duo, actor Conor Lovett and director Judy Hegarty Lovett, will bring 10 performances at the 18th century Palazzo Diedo
Hugo Hamilton: ‘I love speaking Irish. It places me in a less aggressive country full of musical links to an ancient past’
The author on his new novel, Conversation with the Sea; his German heritage; and how Germany is in denial about Gaza
Rest in Paris: fancy your chances of being buried beside Oscar Wilde or Jim Morrison?
Plus: the thing Catherine Connolly and Keir Starmer have in common; the ‘lion’ on the loose in Co Clare; and a big job opening at the EPA
Adrian Dunbar on staging TS Eliot’s The Waste Land: ‘It’s the first major poem of the jazz age’
An intriguing combination of the Irish actor, the American poet and the composer Nick Roth is the headline event of EFG London Jazz Festival 2025
‘When you’re the eldest daughter, particularly in Ireland, it definitely defines you’
National Library of Ireland director Dr Audrey Whitty on ancestral connections, Samuel Beckett’s ‘fail better’ advice and the appeal of getting older
Claire-Louise Bennett: ‘Technology is allowing us to become even more cowardly’
The author’s new novel centres on the relationship between a woman and an older man, and explores the themes of memory, time, love and loss - prompted by a series of events in her own life
László Krasznahorkai could not be more timely Nobel laureate in world of conflict
Hungarian author, a critic of communism and Viktor Orbán alike, is devoted to art of writing
Louis le Brocquy’s portrait of Samuel Beckett is the top lot at Whyte’s Irish art sale
Sale also features artists including Paul Henry, Roderic O’Conor, Sir William Orpen and Mainie Jellett
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
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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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