Ropey rescue bid after horse goes overboardThe Times We Lived In: September 22nd, 1990 Photograph: Frank MillerSat Jun 13 2015 - 05:00
Karen Perry: two writers for the price of oneOld friends Karen Gillece and Paul Perry came together as ‘Karen Perry’ as a joke and writing experimentMon Jun 08 2015 - 01:00
1916 Rising: ‘People don’t live history. They just live their lives’The American author of a new street-by-street history of 1916 has ‘always been interested in the little things’. Joseph EA Connell jnr’s curiosity helps us look at Dublin with fresh eyesSat Jun 06 2015 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: Combining the daft with the unreservedly seriousPublished: June 15th, 1977. Photograph by Eddie KellySat Jun 06 2015 - 01:00
Belinda McKeon: Keeping reality in checkHer new novel, ‘Tender’, is ‘autobiographical at its core’. But the Irish author, now based in New York, would rather readers focus on the fiction than dig for links with real lifeSat May 30 2015 - 16:15
The Times We Lived In: Back when students had time to daydreamPublished: June 7th, 1965. Photograph: Tommy CollinsSat May 30 2015 - 00:00
Galway International Arts Festival programme revealedBiggest talking point likely to be Patricia Piccinini’s giant Sky Whale, which created quite a stir when it appeared in Melbourne in 2013Wed May 27 2015 - 21:41
The Times We Lived In: When Shostakovich met deValeraPublished: July 7th 1972 Photograph: Tommy CollinsSat May 23 2015 - 00:00
Famished Castle: ‘What happens lost love? Where does it go?’Hilary Fannin’s play takes in a decade of loves won and lost and our economic boom and bustMon May 18 2015 - 01:00
Luas not patch on old Dublin tram systemThe Times We Lived In: Dublin in 1948 and a photograph by Dermot BarrySat May 16 2015 - 05:00
Plácido Domingo: ‘Are you going to prepare good weather for us, yes?’The Spanish tenor will be in Dublin to sing at a gala concert this month – rain or shineSat May 16 2015 - 01:00
John O’Conor’s 30-year competitive edgeO’Conor has done what many people thought impossible by putting Dublin on the piano map via the Dublin International Piano Competition. But now he worries for its futureTue May 12 2015 - 01:00
Villa America: Decadence and repression in a jazz age American marriageLiza Klaussmann’s novel crashes a fictional gay pilot into the real-life marriage of socialites Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy, turning a story of glamour into something much deeperMon May 11 2015 - 06:00
The mini-revival of the Irish languageWe are forever hearing about the imminent death of the Irish language, but there is a growing interest in the language worldwide, especially at third-levelMon Apr 27 2015 - 16:15
Ireland’s ballet boyIn September 15-year-old Gearóid Solan will join the Royal Ballet in London. He’s the first Irish male dancer to be accepted at Covent Garden in 30 years. It’s an artistic challenge and a financial commitment – and he’ll have to cook for himself tooSat Apr 25 2015 - 12:00
The Times We Lived In: Everyone wants a piece of Muhammad Ali at Dublin AirportPublished: July 12th, 1972; Photograph: Kevin McMahonSat Apr 25 2015 - 08:00
‘He expected me to boil his underwear’: the surprising life of Elizabeth McCulloughIn a country where it can seem as if every bird in the bushes has written a memoir, it’s worth paying attention to those by an Ulster octogenarian with a tumultuous family pastSat Apr 25 2015 - 01:00
Turning true crime into true blue fictionEoin McNamee’s ‘blue’ novels explore Northern Ireland before the TroublesSun Apr 19 2015 - 14:00
The Times We Lived In: Enda Kenny, back in his primePublished: November 19th, 1975 Photograph: Jimmy McCormackSun Apr 19 2015 - 06:00
Sweet smell of success for Richard E Grant’s perfumesWe all love Richard E Grant in his classic role of the acerbic, alcoholic, unemployed actor Withnail. Now the Swaziland-born movie star has reinvented himself as a hit perfumer – without giving up the day jobSat Apr 18 2015 - 06:00
The Times We Lived In: the mystery of the man in the capPhotograph: Eddie KellySat Apr 11 2015 - 04:00
The Times We Lived In: 1960s Ireland – more ‘Dad Men’ than ‘Mad Men’Published: November 9th, 1965 Photograph: Gordon StandingSat Apr 04 2015 - 00:00
How Emmet Kane turned wood on its headThe Castledermot woodturner’s exhibition A Journey shows his – and the form’s – evolution from craft to expression of ideasMon Mar 30 2015 - 02:00
The Times We Lived In: Another time, another place at the Dandelion Market in DublinThe Times We Lived In: photograph by Dermot O’Shea, published: February 28th, 1977Sat Mar 28 2015 - 00:00
The Times We Lived In: Goldsmith given a spruce-up at gates of TrinityPublished: August 2nd, 1978 Photograph: Tom LawlorSat Mar 21 2015 - 01:00
The mountaineer’s lot: ‘The lightning came. We were knocked unconscious twice’After a lifetime in the hills, Paddy O’Leary has penned a history of mountaineering. His own riveting stories involve the mother of all electrical storms and being caught in an earthquakeFri Mar 20 2015 - 08:28
Paul Durcan: the most playful poet in IrelandHis latest book contains 67 poems on such disparate topics as the weather forecast, the Syrian war, a visit to the GP, retail therapy, clampers and Seamus Heaney. There is sadness, illness, anger and trademark humourTue Mar 17 2015 - 05:00
The Times We Lived In: Maud, not gone but very much here at 82 years of agePublished: January 1948Sat Mar 14 2015 - 00:00
The Times We Lived In: High horses at fair day in MuffPublished: August 14th, 1990 Photograph: Frank MillerSat Feb 28 2015 - 15:00
The Times We Lived In: ‘Yes Minister’ actor at his eloquent best in DublinPublished: February 2nd, 1984Sat Feb 21 2015 - 07:00
Andrew Fox: ‘Never write a story ending with snow’The short-story writer is a young Dubliner in New York whose debut collection, Over Our Heads, contains a double-edged, insider-outsider energy (and who has written a story that ends with snow)Wed Feb 18 2015 - 07:00
The Dublin Pals who set off for Gallipoli’s killing fieldsIn 1914, sports club members volunteered for ‘Pals’ battalions, and fought in one of the first World War’s bloodiest battles. A new immersive theatrical show remembers their catastrophic storyMon Feb 09 2015 - 01:00
Northern Ireland noir: ‘Bits of the past are still floating around in the darkness’Anthony Quinn’s Celcius Daly crime novels will change the way you look at rural ArmaghSat Feb 07 2015 - 06:30
The Times We Lived In: Folly that – painterly artist wins plaudits for snapperPublished: March 9th 2001 Photograph: Brenda FitzsimonsSat Feb 07 2015 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: It’s wasn’t all doom and gloom in TuamPublished: July 14th, 1987Sat Jan 31 2015 - 01:00
The little-known Connemara interlude in Ted Hughes’s lifeA play about the poet’s escape to Ireland with his new partner after the death of Sylvia Plath isn’t particularly kind to HughesMon Jan 19 2015 - 01:00
Pointe duty as Moscow City Ballet comes to DublinBehind the scenes at the ballet: is it all punishing routines and simmering rivalries, or something less dramatic?Sat Jan 17 2015 - 06:00
The Times We Lived In: Snow makes dull road a thing of beauty11th January 1982 Photograph: Pat LanganSat Jan 03 2015 - 01:00
We have lift-off: Irish cultural calendar 2015A year of Yeats. The return of the Gathering. The zaniness of TedFest. The muckiness of the National Ploughing Championships. The musical magic of Electric Picnic. The spectacular scenery of Earagail Arts Festival. And much more. Consider yourself toldWed Dec 31 2014 - 03:00
The Times We Lived In: Polish pianist Arthur Rubenstein at Theatre Royal in DublinPublished: November 13th 1954Sun Dec 28 2014 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: Look out, tooth fairy aboutPublished: March 23rd, 1994. Photograph: Joe St LegerSun Nov 23 2014 - 17:00
The Times We Lived In: Luvvie, you shouldn’t havePublished: February 21st, 1975. Photograph: Jimmy McCormackSat Nov 08 2014 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: Calm before storm of controversial clashPublished: January 10th, 1970Photograph: Jack McManusSat Oct 18 2014 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: Elite team prepared to lay down the lawPublished: June 1924Sat Oct 11 2014 - 01:00
