The Irish Times

Book quiz: ‘A plague on both your houses’ is from which Shakespeare play?

Welcome to The Irish Times book quiz: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge

Sun May 10 2020 - 06:00

Daughter of the Storm: Irish horror for brave young readers

Tina Callaghan’s gothic mystery set on an island off Ireland heaps drama upon drama

Fri Oct 04 2019 - 06:00

Of Monsters and Men: Fever Dream review – Living in a land of confusion

The Icelandic band, wrestling with success, try to disrupt things while still playing safe

Fri Jul 26 2019 - 05:00

Cannes film festival: the class acts of 2018

Despite a dispute with Netflix and films not being ready in time, the competition is one of the funkiest, least creaky in years

Mon May 07 2018 - 06:30

“I said ‘I’m in the movie,’ and the guy on the gate said 'Yeah sure, me too' ”

Veteran character actor Richard Jenkins (70), who shared the screen with Newman and Pacino, is finally ready for the limelight

Fri Feb 09 2018 - 10:47

The man trying to reinvent the future of food with Soylent

Meal substitute entrepreneur Rob Rhinehart lives in a shipping container with no water

Thu Jul 21 2016 - 14:00

Water on Mars: space agencies face red tape on Red Planet

UN treaty forbids exploration that could contaminate environment on other planets

Sat Oct 03 2015 - 01:00

Jo Nesbo: ‘Fictional violence can have a beauty to it’

The first Harry Hole thrillers could be toe-curlingly savage. Ten novels later, Jo Nesbo is still putting his detective in dangerous places – and it’s starting to take its toll

Sat Oct 26 2013 - 01:00

Bad lands: Fahrenheit 451 and other fiery dystopias

Ray Bradbury’s great dystopian vision is 60. Thankfully the book-burning world it depicts has not yet come to pass, so we can still read it and other dark visions

Mon Oct 21 2013 - 01:00