After writing his first novel in a decade, the author discusses everything from the evolution of hurling and his ‘idealised relationship’ with footbalI to why he fears ‘having Caligula in the White House’
Joseph O’Neill became ‘public face’ of Cloverhill prison for work on tackling violence
Michael Dervan: Two evenings of music and words as part of Ireland 2016 got me thinking about the links that were missed
For their collaboration commemorating the Rising at the NCH, Colm Tóibín and Donnacha Dennehy have focused on the uneasy time when Casement and Conrad shared quarters in the Belgian colony
Patrick Pearse set out a mystical rationale for Irish nationality. How does his vision stand up in now, and can a nation state compete with the forces of hypercapitalism?
For a decade cricket became a sinister means of surveilling New York’s Muslim community
The professions of writer and lawyer share lots of similarities so it is perhaps no surprise that so many Irish lawyers venture into fiction. Sarah Gilmartin hears the evidence
The Irish novel may be at a crossroads, says Bert Wright, but Irish fiction is as vibrant and multifarious now as fiction has ever been in any culture in literary history
Sara Baume and Colm Tóibín will also take part in this year’s literary event in Galway
Niall Williams nominated for ‘History of the Rain’ and Joseph O’Neill in running for ‘The Dog’
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
