As it turns 100, meet the most reliable New Yorker you’ll ever encounter
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John McGahern
Philip King: ‘I have five daughters, three of them triplets, so as John McGahern would have it, I’m amongst women’
The Scullion musician and Other Voices music series cofounder on his upbringing, the importance of music in his life, and why the arts matter
Paul Williams: ‘Organised crime could not thrive without the connivance of so-called law-abiding society’
The crime writer and journalist has penned a personal account of his career covering the underworld, and he describes it as the most difficult of them all to write
The Irish Times view on the arts in 2024: a year of high achievement
The cross-fertilisation between Ireland’s literary culture and its other artforms was particularly significant
I was suffering from burnout - then I decided to farm 12 sheep. I emerged a new person
Award-winning author and film producer John Connell says he now sees that art is not something reserved just for the city
That They May Face the Rising Sun is an exercise in memory and a reminder to cherish the natural world
Philip King believes the film may have touched people 'because everything is so virtual, augmented and artificial now, whereas this is tactile, human, visceral'
There’s nothing very dramatic about That They May Face the Rising Sun. Which is why it’s such a good film
Hugh Linehan: Stanley Kubrick said a film should be more like music than like fiction. The Irish director Pat Collins knows why that matters
That They May Face the Rising Sun: The best Irish film in a very long time
An Cailín Ciúin fans should start queueing now. Pat Collins has made an exquisite adaptation of John McGahern’s final novel
Making John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun into a movie: ‘I remember joking that it’s almost unfilmable’
Director Pat Collins discusses his influences and his award-winning adaptation of McGahern’s final novel
How John McGahern’s sin was compounded in the minds of ‘careful and hostile’ interrogators
In a Word: Not only had he written an ‘problematic’ novel but he had also married a Finnish woman
‘Would you like to visit my grave?’ The farmer planning a home burial
Martin Neary has permission to be buried on his own lands in Co Mayo when he dies
Origins of spirituality reside in positive care experienced by a child
John McGahern’s fiction offers a perspective suffused with spiritual meaning
‘A garda and soldier killed in a shoot-out. Heroes, but not anyone I knew. Then the phone rang’
An Irishman’s Diary: Frank McNally on a sombre visit to McGahern Country
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