Oprah Winfrey discusses Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These: ‘I had never heard of the Magdalene laundries’
Winfrey chose Keegan’s novella for the first instalment of her new YouTube series The Oprah Podcast
Claire Keegan
Cillian Murphy’s view of Ireland in the 1980s as ‘the dark ages’ misses the point
Small Things Like These raises a wider question about the communication of our history as one giant, black cloud occasionally interrupted by a lone, bright star
Housewife of the Year: A wistful celebration of a generation of Irish women who competed for £300 and a gas stove
Ciaran Cassidy’s fine documentary is filled with much sadness but also allows a fair degree of celebration
Evocative Small Things Like These property could become cosy home, seeking €149,000
New Ross townhouse with shopfront has been in the Walsh family for more than a century
Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These has become a cause celebre of the Make Ireland Great Again brigade
Cillian Murphy probably didn’t expect to be taken literally when he compared Ireland in the 1980s to the dark ages, but that is where we are now
The Movie Quiz: In what Irish town is Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These set?
Plus: What was the only Netflix title among this year’s Oscar nominees for best picture?
Small Things Like These: Cillian Murphy’s performance is fiercely internalised in a film emblematic of a changing Ireland
Tim Mielant’s memorable film is quietly emblematic of a changing Ireland
Cillian Murphy: ‘You had the Kerry babies, the moving statues, no abortion, no divorce. It was like the dark ages’
The Oscar winner reunites with Eileen Walsh, his Disco Pigs co-star, for Small Things Like These. For young Irish abroad, was its Ireland worth returning to?
Small Things Like These: new trailer shows Cillian Murphy struggling with internal conflict in a darkened New Ross
The film adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella comes to Irish cinemas this November
Claire Keegan in Dalkey: ‘I can’t say I’d cry if I was never nominated for the Booker again’
Acclaimed Irish writer doles out beautifully worded nuggets of wisdom during a sold-out Saturday-night appearance at the festival
Girl in the Making by Anna Fitzgerald: readers will feel for this sensitive, intuitive child
Debut novel absorbs from the opening chapter, following the story of Dublin girl Jean
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy now a ‘favourite’ for the next James Bond, plus other things we learned from the 96th Academy Awards
Amid the kerfuffle, it was somewhat lost that the second-biggest winner of the evening was Poor Things – a remarkable feat for an Irish production
Cillian Murphy: ‘Moving home from London was the best thing we did’
The Oscars 2024 front-runner values his family’s ‘normal, lovely life’ in Ireland – especially as the glare of awards season has been ‘such a baptism of fire’
Cillian Murphy: ‘Magdalene laundries were a collective trauma for people of a certain age’
After decades of denial and obfuscation, campaigners agree progress on Magdalene laundry is happening as new Cillian Murphy film absorbs audiences
Cillian Murphy’s Magdalene laundries film grips audience at Berlin festival
Small Things Like These, based on Claire Keegan’s novella, is dedicated ‘to more than 10,000 young women sent to Magdalene institutions for penance and rehabilitation’
Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize winner is Ireland’s bestselling book of 2023
Prophet Song pips Liz Nugent’s Strange Sally Diamond and Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting
Paul Murray wins Novel of the Year for The Bee Sting at the An Post Irish Book Awards
Other winners include Mark Moriarty for Cookbook of the Year, and Katriona O’Sullivan for Biography of the Year and Listener’s Choice Award
Claire Keegan: ‘I don’t come from a close family. We are not close at all’
So Late in the Day, the author’s quietly devastating new story, draws on the misogyny and meanness of the Ireland she grew up in
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan: A mini masterpiece about subtly toxic masculinity
Protagonist Cathal’s sexism costs him the only relationship that holds the promise of a happier future
The Irish Times view on Irish-language film: on-screen renaissance
Public and critical acclaim confirms that a hitherto untapped appetite is being satisfied
Iftas 2022: An Cailín Ciúin beats Belfast in ‘watershed moment for Irish-language cinema’
Catherine Clinch (12) wins best actress while Moe Dunford wins best actor for Nightride
The Dublin International Film Festival gets off to an energetic start
After a fully online event last year, the city’s cinemas are open again for a festival stuffed with Irish and international features
Belfast and An Cailín Ciúin lead nominations for Irish film and television awards
Winners to be announced at virtual and in-person events in March and April
‘I am 12. I don’t know what my career will be’ – Catherine Clinch, star of An Cailín Ciúin
Actor shines in Irish-language film that secured spot at ‘big three’ European film festivals
Booming Irish film and TV industry broke records in 2021, says Screen Ireland
Contribution to Irish economy reached €500m amid surge in volume of projects
Irish-language film An Cailín Ciúin takes two honours at Berlin film festival
Berlinale juries praise Colm Bairéad’s feature as ‘unique’ and ‘a beautiful film’
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan: a timely and powerful book
A fresh and sensitive perspective on an awful period in Ireland’s collective history
A Crooked Tree: A colourful, classic coming-of-age tale
Book review: Una Mannion’s debut novel is full of quiet surprises and revelations
Tennis Lessons: clever, odd and intimate tale of Northern childhood
Susannah Dickey’s powerful writing brings a girl’s coming of age into sharp focus
‘The day after the US election, I just sat down and sobbed’
In conversation: Helen O’Leary and Claire Walsh
My Leaving: Sweating over which poet will turn up
I loved ‘King Lear’, and I can only hope I’ve given the examiners what they’re looking for
‘You could do anything with that blank page, which is horrifying’
David Hayden gets why ambiguity can make short stories a hard sell – but he revels in it
10 great books by Irish women
In the final part of our series on influential books by women writers, we focus on Irish authors
Cúirt; Fish Short Story winners; Gavin Corbett at TCD; Cork World Book Fest
Dublin Shakespeare Society; Kevin Curran reading; All-Ireland Poetry Day; Trinity talk on Derry authors; hunger strike talk at UCD
Dinosaurs on Other Planets by Danielle McLaughlin: Planet-sized problems of humanity
A stirring debut collection on the loneliness of being alive
The cobwebs are blown off the English curriculum
A revamped list of texts has been brought in at secondary level. But is it too modern?
Galway International Arts Festival opens for public
This year’s series brings theatre, music and an eye-catching hot air balloon to the city
In praise of Claire Keegan, by Colin Barrett
Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘Very few novels have the formal perfection, narratorial poise and sublime ability to make the unsaid and unsayable glow, as Foster does’
Sara Baume: ‘I actually hate writing. It’s really hard’
The winner of the 2014 Davy Byrnes Short Story Award gave herself two years to write her debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither. But she remains torn between fiction and visual art
Anne Enright: How the world reads Irish writers
The newly appointed Laureate for Irish Fiction considers the reach of Irish books abroad – and what gets lost in translation
Fantasies in borrowed spaces as Galway Arts Festival opens tonight
Former ‘Connacht Tribune’ printworks is festival’s main gallery venue
Galway gears up for international arts festival and Fringe festival
Congregational hall a new ‘playhouse’ venue for Fringe festival
Sara Baume wins €15,000 Davy Byrnes short story award
Writer beats two published novelists to follow in distinguished footsteps of Anne Enright and Claire Keegan
Creative Cork: writing course taps into a rich heritage
In a region bristling with talented writers, UCC’s new MA in creative writing is ‘long overdue’
Macnas: the show goes on, despite a Galway no-show
Change is ‘difficult and necessary’ at Macnas, as budget issues meant no arts festival parade
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