Room to Disimprove – Frank McNally on the demise of the drawing room and other social tragedies
An Irishman’s Diary
When communists took over the Rotunda to fight for Dublin’s unemployed
Liam O’Flaherty led the armed four-day occupation 100 years ago this week
Dubbed over: Frank McNally on the missing accents in English war commemorations
An Irishman’s Diary for 'They Shall Not Grow Old' and the missing voices
The island priests: piety and poitín on the edge of Ireland
Nowhere was the relationship between the clergy and parishoners more sharply observed than on offshore islands
A walk for the weekend: Wild, misty splendour of Inis Mór
Unforgettable views and a magical detour to the natural wonder of Poll na bPeist
Galway’s only 1916 Rising fatality remembered
Sinn Féin expressed opposition to the event in memory of Constable Patrick Walsh
From Bram to Brooklyn: 10 great films adapted from Irish literature
Lenny Abrahamson’s Room and John Crowley’s Brooklyn vie for the best picture Oscar this weekend. They are part of a grand tradition
Scandalous Harry Clarke window goes on display in Dublin gallery
Naked woman artwork rejected by Irish government in 1930
Greek literature risks getting lost in translation
Bureaucratic and fitful support for translators risks hampering authors
Baiting the censor: 10 books they tried to suppress
Hilary Mantel’s short story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher caused outrage with its recent publication in the Guardian, but it’s not the first and won’t be last piece of fiction to raise hackles
Aran writer Liam O’Flaherty the focus of new summer school
Career of brother and journalist Tom O’Flaherty will also be studied at Inis Mór event
Taoiseach’s stance on abortion legislation praised by Connemara cleric
Catholic hierarchy stance that of the ’idealist’
State’s first banned book to be published for first time in 80 years
Liam O’Flaherty’s novel a tale of gombeenism
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