Melatu-Uche Okorie: ‘In Ireland, you have to be mentally strong to survive’
The author and academic on art, self-expression, and overcoming obstacles through creativity
The best classical music and opera to see this week
RTÉ NSO chief conductor Jaime Martín opens his reign in style; Katie Bray is Griselda
For two years we will again have to do without the NCH as we know it
DCU’s Helix, whose acoustics wipe the floor with the NCH, will be the only game in town
Lost in transition: the fiction of Jennifer Johnston
Her writing dwells on inter-relationships, ‘mixed’ marriages between Catholics and Protestants, links between Irish and British, ‘indigenous’ Irish and Anglo-Irish
In praise of Jennifer Johnston
Irish Times Blook Club: Novelist has chronicled the family across a century of troubled Irish history
Edith & Oliver review: Illusions of grandeur
Michèle Forbes’s story of a doomed romance in the vaudeville world lacks a magic spark
10 great books by Irish women
In the final part of our series on influential books by women writers, we focus on Irish authors
My mother, Molly Keane: caustic chronicler of the lost Anglo-Irish world
The great, caustic and conflicted chronicler of a lost society of big houses, hunting and celebrity, Molly Keane comes to life again in a biography by her daughter Sally Phipps
Funeral of Fergus Linehan told of kindness and principles
A theatre man who was ‘an appallingly bad actor’ and a dad who loved unconditionally
Miriam Lord’s week: “I remember a time when ministers were fired for the smallest leak”
Senator David Norris declares himself “bored senseless” by Budget 2017 until talk turns to pay
Funeral of Basil Blackshaw hears he found ‘wonder in the ordinary’
Celebrated Co Antrim painter described as man who was rooted in rural life
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
Enigmatic Antrim artist Basil Blackshaw gives BBC programme insight into work
Antrim painter once attended exhibition wearing bag over his head
Reclaiming the war: Army of ghosts
War writing at heart is about the ambivalence of loyalty to class, nation, and friends, and of belief and the business of being human, and more recent Irish writing on the Great War, in reopening a closed chapter in our history, is no different in exploring all those ambiguities
In praise of Jennifer Johnston, by Eileen Battersby
Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘Jennifer Johnston is canny; her laconic narrators reveal her sophisticated grasp of the many faces of Irishness’
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
The L factor: a literary ambassador for Ireland
Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction
Who should become the first Laureate for Irish Fiction?
Eimear McBride, Jennifer Johnston and Kevin Barry are some of the names that have been suggested in response to the Arts Council’s call for nominees for its new three-year, €150,000 role. The judges will announce their decision in January
‘Tree of Rememberance’ more than just a memorial
Metal sculpture unveiled at exhibition in memory of those who fell in first World War
St Patrick’s Cathedral memorial tree evokes trenches of first World War
Interactive exhibit, created to mark centenary, explores locality’s connections to war
Sudden death of writer Dermot Healy inspires many tributes
‘A poet of oceanic forlorness in all his writings’
Radio: Presenters playing the World Cup for laughs are scoring an own goal
It’s bad enough that the soccer agnostics complain incessantly about the soccer tournament, but do we need so many wacky items on air?
Hot debate at sunny Dalkey book event
Festival featured a range of authors including Sebastian Barry, Donal Ryan and John Banville
Impac winner Jon McGregor is big draw on European Literature Night
MacGill Summer School and West Cork Literary Festival news
Review: How Many Miles to Babylon?
The Lyric’s handsome new prodution of Jennifer Johnston’s first World War drama moves from the war at home to the Western Front. Which conflict is worse?
Greystones living: grace and green space in Greystones for €950,000
This Co Wicklow coastal town nestled by the sea, within commuting distance of the capital, remains hugely popular. This week three houses – an Edwardian and two Victorians – have come on the market in the Burnaby area
Warm celebration at IMMA of life of artist Patrick Scott
‘Such a pleasant man you could forget he was a genius’
Looking for a pulse among dead Irish writers
Dublin Writers Museum opened 22 years ago to celebrate the capital’s literary tradition but it now feels more like a mausoleum
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