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Donald Clarke: If authors can keep an open mind about appearances, so can readers
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Best-selling author enjoys playing with old crime clichés
Spencer: Kristen Stewart’s casting as a brittle Princess Diana is inspired
She balances trepidation with determination in Pablo Larraín’s spaced-out fantasia
‘I am deeply interested in Ireland’s complex past’
‘I have a ritual of making tea, lighting a candle and then I am gone into my fictional world’
Irishwoman in New York: I didn’t fear getting Covid-19 but I should have
Dubliner Yvonne Cassidy was fit and healthy, but says coronavirus didn’t seem to care
The Pale Horse: Deliciously atmospheric Agatha Christie adaptation
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Elizabeth O’Kelly: the generous widow who left her fortune to charity
Laois multimillionaire (92) would be ‘horrified’ at her €30m donation becoming public
Meet the bright young things of Irish writing
Young Irish fiction writers have made strides in recent years, and 2018 promises some fine debuts. Here six authors introduce their books
Irish Times Travel Writer 2016: And the winner is . . .
Today, we announce the winner of our travel writing competition. Chosen from more than 650 entries, John Poole’s winning article is about being guided by fictional sleuths through fabulous cities
Himself review: He sees dead people in Mayo
Jess Kidd’s debut novel is atmospheric but too cliched to really score as mystery or drama
She never went to school: 126 remarkable Agatha Christie facts
With Poirot-like diligence, expert John Curran has gathered 126 facts about the Queen of Crime
TV Review: Wallander’s trip to the sun does little to lift gloom
Kenneth Branagh is in South Africa for the first drama in the final instalment of the TV Nordic noir series
Rose Wylie’s goal: to paint like a five-year-old
At 81, the British artist is gaining recognition by avoiding artifice and artiness
Picture perfect in Rathfarnham for €850,000
Four-bedroomed renovated cottage is on a hillside among fields and forests and includes a detached studio in gardens
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