Author Seán Hewitt: ‘I want to make a small case for bringing beautiful things to the centre of the novel again’
Samuel Beckett vs Archbishop McQuaid: Why an infuriated Nobel laureate withdrew his play from Dublin Theatre Festival
America, América by Greg Grandin: An extraordinarily ambitious history of conquest and control in the Americas
From a garda at prayer to Ireland’s first McDonald’s drive-through: Martin Parr’s revealing photographs of Irish life
First Look: The Rooftop Bar cocktail and dining area at The Marker – the place to be when the sun sets
April director Dea Kulumbegashvili: ‘The woman was still alive, but they already knew they would not be able to save her’