Jennifer Johnston

Michèle Forbes’s story of a doomed romance in the vaudeville world lacks a magic spark

In the final part of our series on influential books by women writers, we focus on Irish authors

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

A theatre man who was ‘an appallingly bad actor’ and a dad who loved unconditionally

Senator David Norris declares himself “bored senseless” by Budget 2017 until talk turns to pay

Celebrated Co Antrim painter described as man who was rooted in rural life

Dublin Shakespeare Society; Kevin Curran reading; All-Ireland Poetry Day; Trinity talk on Derry authors; hunger strike talk at UCD

Antrim painter once attended exhibition wearing bag over his head

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

Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘Jennifer Johnston is canny; her laconic narrators reveal her sophisticated grasp of the many faces of Irishness’

Irish Women Writers: ‘Johnston has quietly got on with the business of producing a distinctive oeuvre of tightly controlled novels, short in size and huge in emotional impact’

The newly appointed Laureate for Irish Fiction considers the reach of Irish books abroad – and what gets lost in translation

Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural 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

Metal sculpture unveiled at exhibition in memory of those who fell in first World War

Interactive exhibit, created to mark centenary, explores locality’s connections to war

‘A poet of oceanic forlorness in all his writings’

It’s bad enough that the soccer agnostics complain incessantly about the soccer tournament, but do we need so many wacky items on air?

Festival featured a range of authors including Sebastian Barry, Donal Ryan and John Banville

MacGill Summer School and West Cork Literary Festival news

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?

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

‘Such a pleasant man you could forget he was a genius’

Dublin Writers Museum opened 22 years ago to celebrate the capital’s literary tradition but it now feels more like a mausoleum

Ulster, Irish, British or European? In Mark Carruthers’s new book about identity in Northern Ireland, artists’ insights are richer than politicians’