Creative flights as Galway arts festival soars

Programme straddling popular and esoteric work attracts record numbers

Two must-see theatre shows this week at Galway International Arts Festival

Flight witnesses an epic struggle staged in miniature, while an immersive performance invites us to share the scorched earth of Patrick White’s Australia

Big birds and Australian acrobats in store for Galway Arts Festival

Eyre Square to be transformed into a ‘festival garden’ with series of events lined up for city

Get ready for the Galway International Arts Festival

This year’s festival boasts a full moon, and a garden, theatre, gigs, talks and thoughts

Paul Muldoon’s ‘Incantata’ on stage at Galway International Arts Festival

Tom Murphy remembered as festival gears up for Galway 2020

First edition of banned Lady Chatterley’s Lover goes on sale today

How a retired book-collecting Sligo GP managed to get a copy of DH Lawrence’s banned book while still at school

Alex Miller: ‘Simple prose is valued more now than a decade ago’

‘Brought to Book’ Q&A: Australian author of Coal Creek and The Ancestor Game on the books that have inspired him

Eileen Battersby’s favourite Australian fiction

To mark Australia Day, our Literary Correspondent celebrates her literary wizards of Oz

An eloquent, shocking memorial: The Narrow Road to the Deep North

There isn’t a dud note in Richard Flanagan’s Homeric new novel

The perils of not letting go

Australian novelist Tim Winton has produced a profound tale of a last stab at salvation in ‘Eyrie’

The Eye of the Storm