‘Kids after Leaving Cert English look punch drunk’: teacher has his say ahead of ‘tough’ first exam
Sheer amount of handwriting required in answers can make heads – and hands – ache
Ernest Hemingway
The world has put too many financial eggs in a country run by a basket case
Concentration of global risk in one country – the US – is a source of enormous jeopardy
Could France go bust? One of Europe’s biggest economies has pimped itself out to the world
The question haunting the EU: could France be a huge Greece at the heart of the bloc?
This summer I’m taking a Maga approach to reading: self-serving and isolationist
The art of re-reading - or rewatching - old favourites is a romantic pursuit
A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis – Five decades as wandering witness to the world
This collection, edited by John Hatt, brings together 36 of the English writer’s witty, observant travelogues
A critique of those who have opinions on everything but do very little about anything
You may find the following attitude strange from an ex-theatre critic
Lucy Caldwell: ‘It took me more than a decade of trying to write short stories before any of them worked. It was long and gruelling’
Award-winning author explains the process behind Openings, her new short story collection
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru - The men don’t come out of it all that well
Hollywood star Patricia Neal’s ‘career, independence and beauty were gone within a decade’ of marrying Roald Dahl
Where has the rock star male novelist gone?
The #MeToo movement has made men in literature more cautious
Giovanni Bellini: Father of the Renaissance, painter of translucid light
A new exhibition in Paris reveals the extraordinary originality and influence of Venetian artist
Tip2Top in Cabo Blanco: Hemingway once held court here, in all his degenerate glory. The rich still fly in to hook a prize marlin
The writer came to Cabo Blanco, where I stop on my journey up the Americas, as this Peruvian village was where much of The Old Man and the Sea was filmed
Drones, drugs and bullet-proof vests: life as a war courier in Ukraine
One Warsaw resident on the dangerous route he takes across the border with supplies
How a larger-than-life Kerry exile helped Muhammad Ali fight in Dublin
London publican Butty Sugrue, once dubbed ‘Ireland’s strongest man’, was force of nature
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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