Michael Harding: ‘There’s nothing as funny as unhappiness’The Irish Times columnist’s books, weekly articles and live shows have the makings of a new literary genre: interactive tragi-comedyFri Oct 07 2016 - 11:00
The jaw-dropping life of Jan Morris: ex- soldier, ex-spy, ex-manJames Morris, born 90 years ago this weekend, lived a life of extraordinary manliness before undergoing gender reassignment in 1972Sat Oct 01 2016 - 06:00
The Times We Lived In: Gaybo pops up in time for the telethonPublished: May 2nd, 1990 Photograph by Matt KavanaghSat Oct 01 2016 - 01:00
Peggy Seeger needs your help to track down an obscure recordingThe only time she heard Ewan MacColl sing The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was on the phone but a recording apparently exists. Can you help find it?Tue Sept 27 2016 - 09:57
The Times We Lived In: Portrait of the artist paying homage to MunchPublished: September 21st, 1990. Photograph by Frank MillerSun Sept 25 2016 - 05:00
Summer’s over. But festival season isn’t‘Shoulder season festivals’ are coming into bloom, bringing colour, vibrancy and some much-needed cash to towns across IrelandSat Sept 24 2016 - 04:00
You thought festival season was over, it's only just beginning: 24 autumn festivalsSummer’s over, but ‘shoulder season’ festivals are just coming into bloomMon Sept 19 2016 - 01:00
More than a cúpla focail: How to learn a language in just three monthsA Cavan man who speaks 11 languages and is known as ‘the Irish polyglot’ has devised a new way of becoming multilingualSat Sept 17 2016 - 03:30
The Times We Lived In: Mickey Mouse politics - who, moi?Published: August 4th, 1989. Photograph by Paddy WhelanFri Sept 16 2016 - 19:07
Architects - They’re not just for the richFor Yvonne Farrell and Shelly McNamara of Grafton Architects, good design is about making a communityFri Sept 16 2016 - 10:00
Dublin Fringe reviews: Penny Arcade leaves us longing for more'Hope Hunt'/'Wrongheaded' double bill dissects effects of patriarchy as 'Megalomaniac' shows vaulting ambitionTue Sept 13 2016 - 14:00
The Times We Lived In: At Clerys, ‘shop till you drop’ was the businessPublished: October 8th, 1965. Photograph by Dermot BarrySun Sept 11 2016 - 07:00
The Times We Lived In: Unsettling portrait of a ladyPublished: October 11th, 1967. Photograph by Dermot BarrySat Sept 03 2016 - 01:00
Roald Dahl’s gobblefunk: inventing a whole new languageFrom whiffswiddle to frobscottle, the author invented almost 400 new words, not to mention a host of characters, places and foods. A new dictionary gathers them all togetherFri Sept 02 2016 - 09:29
Ian McEwan: ‘Shakespeare should be celebrated or railed against’The English writer’s 17th novel is narrated by an unborn baby. Is it a prequel to Hamlet?Wed Aug 31 2016 - 06:00
The Times We Lived In: Synchronised singing in celebration of TrinityPublished: May 15th, 1992. Photograph by Frank MillerSat Aug 27 2016 - 16:09
The Times We Lived In: The Kerry school battling to stay openPublished: March 15th, 1995. Photograph by Pat LanganSat Aug 20 2016 - 06:00
50 Irish graves to visit before you dieIf you like to commune with the ghosts of the famous in haunting surroundings, Ireland has enough burial places to last you a lifetimeThu Aug 18 2016 - 12:00
The Times We Lived In: Selling your soil for IrelandPublished: January 24th, 1984Photograph by Matt KavanaghSat Aug 13 2016 - 07:00
The Times We Lived In: Gulliver travels to Dollymount StrandPublished: July 13th, 1988. Photograph by Jack McManusSat Aug 06 2016 - 00:30
Arts Council unveils the winners in its €800,000 Making Great Art Work schemeSeven new projects have been chosen for their ambitious nature and public involvementWed Aug 03 2016 - 13:27
Film festival brings the Rising to virtual lifeGuth Gafa festival is using VR headsets to offer documentaries with a difference, taking viewers into battle, into wheelchairs and to the moonWed Aug 03 2016 - 13:17
The Times We Lived In: Driving on Dollymount StrandPublished: July 12th, 1977; Photograph by Tom LawlorFri Jul 29 2016 - 23:00
The Times We Lived In: The grand dame of the Firkin CranePhotograph by Eddie Kelly, published 1954Sat Jul 23 2016 - 00:33
New chapter for derelict Wexford parkApartments built in the 1970s have given way to a new a public park in New RossThu Jul 21 2016 - 05:00
The Times We Lived In: Back when airports put the fun in holiday travelPhotograph by Dermot Barry, April 4th, 1961Sat Jul 16 2016 - 07:59
The Times We Lived In: ‘Any sign of the dark side, Minister?’Photograph by Gordon Standing, February 29th, 1968Sat Jul 09 2016 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: For Beverly bag style, it's handbags at BrayPublished: November 30th, 1966 photograph by Dermot O’SheaSat Jul 02 2016 - 05:00
The Times We Lived In: Heading off for another life in ThallabawnPublished: October 29th, 1977. Photograph by Tom LawlorSat Jun 25 2016 - 13:55
Enjoy the wild side of life with this children's bookLarge-format children’s book offers an inspiring way to get back to natureSat Jun 25 2016 - 03:00
Charlotte Wood interview: The girls they punished for saying too muchThe greatest shock of the Australian writer’s new novel about a misogynistic dystopia is that it is based on a real girls’ home from the 1970sMon Jun 20 2016 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: Somewhere between Einstein and FrankensteinPublished: November 11th, 1999; Photograph by Paddy WhelanSat Jun 18 2016 - 00:50
Living with OCD: ‘My routines always came first. It could be 4am when I finished’One in every 33-50 people is affected by obsessive compulsive disorder. Lily Bailey's sinister alter ego convinced her she was a sexual pervert who was killing people and spreading disease. So how did she recover?Fri Jun 10 2016 - 12:30
The Times We Lived In: Too skinny for a European Parliament fat cat?Published: March 12th, 1984. Photograph by Matt KavanaghSat May 28 2016 - 01:31
Mike McCormack: ‘I had the canny idea of writing a long sentence instead of a book’In his novel Solar Bones, McCormack has written an expansive tale about a ghost, which is also a ‘hymn to engineers’Mon May 23 2016 - 06:00
The Times We Lived In: Ladies first as little princess leads the way at the ÁrasPublished: August 31st, 1963. Photograph by Dermot BarrySat May 21 2016 - 04:00
‘State of Chassis’ erupts at Peacock TheatrePublished: September 17th, 1970Photograph by Tommy CollinsSat May 14 2016 - 01:00
Mia Gallagher: A decade spent making strange lost worldsIt has taken 10 years for Mia Gallagher to follow up her debut novel, but the almost labyrinthine Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland is well worth getting lost inMon May 09 2016 - 06:00
Times We Lived In: flying racehorses get set for contentious DerbyPhotograph published: June 22nd, 1953Sat May 07 2016 - 01:00
‘See how it shines?’ The rescue of the Ruzbihan KoranA copper-bearing pigment was burning through the 890-page 16th-century Koran, but the manuscript has been saved and is on display in the Chester Beatty LibraryMon May 02 2016 - 06:00
Cultural greats honour Edna O’Brien’s life and writingGathering in Dublin includes Paddy Moloney, Michael Longley and Olivia O’LearyMon Apr 25 2016 - 01:00
The 1916 Rising as you have never seen it beforeArtist David Rooney explains the poster published with this weekend’s ‘Irish Times’Sat Apr 23 2016 - 01:00
Golden balls as big as these need no wordsThe Times We Lived In: Photograph by Paddy Whelan, published July 19th, 2001Sat Apr 23 2016 - 01:00
You fill up my census: preparing for April 24thCensus 2016 takes place next weekend. The operation to deliver forms to more than two million homes across Ireland has a logistical complexity that beggars beliefSat Apr 16 2016 - 05:45
The Times We Lived In: Like mother like daughterPublished: February 23rd, 1993. Photograph: Peter ThursfieldSat Apr 09 2016 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: Clearing the way for the Howth tramPublished: May 30th, 1956. Photograph by Jack McManusSat Apr 02 2016 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: A test tube of plain is your only manPublished: July 3rd, 1964. Photograph: Gordon StandingSat Mar 19 2016 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: Faye Dunaway - a star in stripesPublished: June 21st, 1984. Photograph: Jack McManusSat Feb 27 2016 - 01:00
The Times We Lived In: Taking a punt on the last banknotesPublished: November 29th, 2001. Photograph: Brenda FitzsimonsSat Feb 20 2016 - 01:00
