Culture Night returns with bell-ringing, shield-painting and an invitation to ‘play the paper bag’
Art and music workshops and demos are just some of the hundreds of events lined up for September 18th
The walled town of Wexford: ‘Some people said to us that it must be like living in a prison’
In the first of a four-part series on Ireland’s walled towns, we visit Wexford, where history is quite literally in people’s back gardens
‘This year, everyone is talking about what plants are surviving the drought and which aren’t’
Oliver Schurmann reinforces the need to plant for the future at the Carlow Garden Festival, which runs until Sunday
Carlow Garden Festival: What is the single best thing you can do for a garden of any size?
Carlow Garden Festival is pulling out all the stops to attract a more diverse crowd
Leafing through a discovered magazine from 1966 a glaring absence struck me
A perusal of The Irish Times Annual Review of 1966 leaves me slack-jawed over an era where the patriarchy truly ruled Ireland
Playwright Conor McPherson: ‘You’re better off getting hammered than a three-star review’
The playwright on his new production of The Brightening Air, developing ‘scar tissue’ from criticism, and the thing great actors have
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding: What we know so far
Apparently a gathering for 100 is expected at Madison Square Garden tonight, and another for 1,000 people tomorrow afternoon
Winner of Royal College of Surgeons annual art award at RHA announced
Elaine Byrne’s photograph of a young girl swimming was chosen from the annual exhibition at the RHA
What is Yesteryear and why is everyone talking about it?
This ‘tradwife’ novel by debut novelist Caro Claire Burke is jaw-droppingly good
Dorothy Cross: ‘The beautiful is always bizarre ... It is never about trying to shock’
The artist’s best-known work had a lasting impact. The cabinet of curiosities that is her studio offers an insight into the master behind it
So US aristocrat Belle Burden was never going to be broke after her divorce. Who knew?
A New Yorker article indicates the author of bestselling memoir Strangers had minimised her personal wealth
Behind the scenes at one of Ireland’s oldest jewellery stores Weir & Sons: workshops, rare jewels and €100,000 watches
‘People might come in with a budget, but they often leave with something way above.’ To spend time behind the scenes at Weir & Sons jewellers is to understand a little of the meticulous skill these craftspeople possess
30 years since Nuala O’Faolain’s Are You Somebody? ‘Vibrating with hurt. It leaves a mark’
In her best-selling memoir the Irish author and journalist ‘excavated her own soul and, in so doing, helped us look more closely at ourselves’
Ireland’s chef of the year Ahmet Dede: ‘I was on the path to professional football in Turkey’
Dede was on the path to becoming a professional footballer when an injury derailed his career. He retrained as a chef in Dublin, and has since been transforming a west Cork village into a renowned culinary destination
Your first eight novels disappear into the ether. Then you strike gold
It’s no surprise that Virginia Evans has found huge success with The Correspondent, which is now up for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction