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The author’s debut novel draws on her personal experience of infertility and loss
Rosaleen McDonagh: ‘This is the best moment of my life’
Aosdána member on surviving Covid-19, racism against Travellers and reclaiming power through writing
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A decade after the Ryan report: Launch of ‘Survivors’ Stories’
Tributes paid to those who endured and then campaigned in what became a ‘crusade for truth’
We have a culture of not listening to abuse survivors
Sealing witnesses’s testimony for 75 years is highly detrimental to national history
Greek tragedy calls to mind Ireland’s patriarchal ‘lies of silence’
Greece Letter: True story of a woman buried alive has parallels with Irish horrors
Elizabeth Day: 'As an English child in Belfast, I thought I was seen as the occupier'
Author and journalist on growing up in Northern Ireland, and learning from her 'failures'
Emilie Pine: On My Culture Radar
Award-winning author on Mary Swanzy’s Imma exhibition and Glenn Close’s acting chops
‘I have turned to the healing power of art from my sickbed’
Government investment in the arts should be viewed as more than just ‘nice to have’
The debut books and authors to look out for in 2019
We asked some writers to tell us about their debuts ahead of their publication
Policing the borderlands of fiction and non-fiction
For serious writers, invention in reportage remains taboo
How data analytics revealed new insights in Ryan report on child abuse
New fields are benefiting from a dynamic search function that allows for an astonishing level of specific detail
Opening the Gate: is Irish theatre still talking to itself?
The Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference at the Gate heard illuminating talks about Edwards and Mac Liammóir, Beckett and Friel
Centenary commemorations should not distort history, says President Higgins
Abbey gathering hears criticism from playwright over control of memory by ‘cultural class’
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