The Irish Times

Funeral of John O’Neill told he was a man with ‘big heart and an open mind’

Son tells mourners he has lost ‘a great father’ who had been ‘deeply rooted in north Clare’

Fri Jan 14 2022 - 14:59

‘Winging it’ when you are making a speech involves lots of practice

Pilita Clark: few speakers truly have the ‘wang’ to wing it

Mon Jun 24 2019 - 18:33

Breda O’Brien: Empathy for refugees lasted no longer than a like or retweet

Sub-contracting responsibility for refugees to Ankara sees refugees as a threat to be kept out, not human beings in need of shelter

Sat Mar 12 2016 - 00:36

Jim Crace wins IMPAC award for outstanding Harvest

Novel is terrific and tells story of rural community faced with the coming of enclosure

Wed Jun 17 2015 - 12:33

VE Day: Joy in Europe, but worse horrors of WWII were yet to come

Eileen Battersby: Europe’s streets lined with people too exhausted by six years of grief

Fri May 08 2015 - 09:45

Colum McCann is only Irish writer on Impac shortlist

Themes of war and real life dominate Dublin Literary Award shortlist

Wed Apr 15 2015 - 01:00

Eileen Battersby’s favourite Australian fiction

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

Mon Jan 26 2015 - 01:57

Shane Hegarty’s cultural highs and lows of 2014

'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver' was great comedy - and journalism

Sat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00

Richard Flanagan: war, the Booker and a life more circular

The Tasmanian’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about Australian POWs doomed to build the Burma Death Railway, is the first great work to win the Booker since 2001

Tue Oct 21 2014 - 01:00

Literary wizards of Australia and New Zealand

With the Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan announced as this year’s Booker winner, we bring you 10 great novels from Down Under

Mon Oct 20 2014 - 12:00

What Bono can learn from the Booker winner

The U2 singer’s iTunes apology had parallels with Richard Flanagan’s speech, but each came from a very different place

Sat Oct 18 2014 - 01:00

Man Booker Prize 2014: Richard Flanagan wins

‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ is a powerful and sometimes brutal love story

Wed Oct 15 2014 - 09:21

Booker shortlist: potential showdown between two of the year’s finest novels

Wed Sept 10 2014 - 01:00

British and US authors dominate Man Booker shortlist

No Irish authors make the cut but two US writers feature for the first time

Tue Sept 09 2014 - 11:17

Child of the Death Railway: why I had to write about my father

Archie Flanagan was one of the tens of thousands of prisoners of war forced to build the supply line for the Japanese army in the 1940s. He survived, and now his son has turned his story into the Booker-longlisted ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’

Sat Aug 30 2014 - 01:00