More sex, please: Bridget Jones, Colin Firth and the astonishing rebranding of Jane Austen
Thirty years ago, one event made Austen more popular than almost any other contemporary or close successor
Walter Scott
Writer
Detached Victorian with echoes of Louis le Brocquy for €2.95m
Property is on a large plot at the south side of Kenilworth Square, Rathgar
Plaque erected in Dublin for anti-slavery leader Frederick Douglass
Visit of abolitionist to city commemorated at Eustace Street building where he spoke
Bravery award for garda who talked down armed man while sitting on church bench
Thirteen gardaí receive the Scott Medal at ceremony in Dublin Castle
Mind the Gap – Frank McNally on a great Irish institution, the month’s mind, from Shakespeare to Joyce
An Irishman’s Diary
Derek Chauvin trial: the ‘clear challenges’ US prosecutors face in police cases
Opening statements in trial of police officer charged with George Floyd murder to begin on Monday
Ammonite: Even the Saoirse Ronan-Kate Winslet sex scenes are too respectable
Film review: Starring two great actors, this could have been an awards magnet
Ceol Over Beethoven – Frank McNally on the great composer’s lesser-known Irish song collection
An Irishman’s Diary
Kilruddery House's walled garden wonder revived
Another seasonal bounty of vegetables and flowers from its Victorian kitchen garden
Don’t judge a book by its coverage
Donald Clarke: BBC’s ‘novels that shaped our world’ list is terrible in a very particular way
Doctors are as guilty of fat-shaming people as everyone else
Fat-shaming, fat stigmatisation and fat bias are increasing – and the medical profession is not immune
Eugène Delacroix: Reflections on a revolution in art
The painter fell in and out of favour with critics. A new exhibition shows his continuing relevance
Ewan McGregor: ‘I have been living a midlife crisis since my teens’
‘If you always wanted a convertible and you get one then why should we demean that?’
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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