‘A bit of a character’ – An Irishman’s Diary on Enid Starkie , Irish-born Oxford academic and literary critic

Iris Murdoch centenary marked with stamp and plaque

‘Even at the end of her life when she had Alzheimer’s, she remembered she was from Ireland’

Writer of music for the spoken voice, arias of social realism

Tom Murphy’s plays pulse with a life that will always draw people towards them

Theatre programme recalls brilliant coup that helped to establish artistic independence of Abbey

An Irishman's Diary on the battle between the Abbey and the English censor

A friend who realised his destiny in full

A gift and the fulfilment of its promise is a rare thing, but Seamus Heaney achieved it

Sean O’Faolain’s other women

An extract from Julia O’Faolain’s memoir ‘Trespassers’