Oasis live in Ireland: How The Irish Times reviewed their first Dublin headline gig and the epic 2009 Slane Castle concert
As the Gallagher brothers reunite for a tour including two dates at Croke Park in 2025, we look back at their most important gigs in Ireland
After a Dance by Bridget O’Connor: Riotous stories set in grimy Irish London
The pages are populated with rogues, addicts and grifters of all genders, whose stasis offers despair, but also a farrago of humour and pathos
Art Monsters and Thunderclap: Looking at art with fresh eyes
Sinéad Gleeson reviews impressive new books on art by Lauren Elkin and Laura Cumming
Drifts: A whirling, kinetic funnel carrying art, philosophers and dogs
Book Review: Any writer who picks up Kate Zambreno’s Drifts will feel a queasy wave of recognition
Approaching Eye Level: The ache of isolation and the miracle of writing
Vivian Gornick’s essays, first published in 1996, centre on aloneness but not loneliness
The Lexicon of Babies, a short story by Sinéad Gleeson
A parable on parenthood by the author of the award-winning essay collection, Constellations
Motherwell: Deborah Orr’s artful and authentic parting words
Book review: The late journalist’s hugely accomplished debut feels as if there was much more to come
Sinéad Gleeson: Rediscovering the shared frequency of music and writing
The writer on creating a world for a new album by her husband’s band, Mount Alaska
Make it Scream, Make it Burn: Essays of compassion and conviction
Book review: Leslie Jamison covers a wide range of subjects but always with empathy and intelligence
Sinéad Gleeson: As a teenager in hospital, I found hope in Frida Kahlo
Artists showed a parallel creative life was possible, one that overshadows patient life
Nine Pints review: a deep dive into blood
Rose George’s engaging guide to blood as ‘a medicine, a lifesaver and a commodity’
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss: the problem with the good old days
Tale of a young woman trapped in her father’s strange archaeological game could be read as a Brexit fable
Certain American States by Catherine Lacey: Tales from limbo
This book of short stories is about in-betweenness, emotionally and geographically
Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso: life, work and family in splintered detail
Author re-examines her old diaries, while continuing to document life in the present
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath review
Narrative focuses on Leslie Jamison’s affair with alcohol, a reciprocal act of intoxication