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Euro 2016: the intellectual’s guide to football
‘There are intellectual football-lovers but those who go to stadiums and bookshops are different’
One man’s radical plan for the Ha’penny Bridge
British architect Edwin Landseer Lutyens, who died 100 years ago, had strong Irish connections. He once proposed to replace the Ha’penny Bridge with an art gallery
Michael Longley shortlisted for $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize
Seven Irish authors longlisted for 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; Ruth Frances Long wins Best Creator of Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy
Richard Ford’s sharp tales with a whiff of mortality: Let Me Be Frank With You
The great American writer’s new book is a slight one for him – but it’s a welcome return for Frank Bascombe
Richard Ford: ‘I’m pretty content with nothing going on in my brain’
The American writer has resuscitated Frank Bascombe for ‘Let Me Be Frank With You’, his new, very funny book. Its stories, like their author, eschew fulminating rage for an untortured attitude to life
See Richard Ford at Trinity next week, and other listings
Cathy Kelly, Colin Barrett and Bram Stoker festival
Kerry and Kilkenny don’t care if they’re loved or loathed once they’re winning
All-Ireland winners show that specialists continue to rule the roost at the highest level
Seamster impresses at Laytown
Richard Ford’s British raider claims victory on the sand in the Tote Mobile Betting Handicap
Brought to Book: Gerald Dawe on the joy of getting a book in place and the anxiety after
`Use it or lose it'
Account of a not so young man in Paris
A wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history of Paris
Go away, January: self-improvement makes me think about death
’Tis the season to hurl our grubby cushions on the bonfire, to stand in front of the dusty mirror holding our midriffs in our capable hands
Rural stories of isolation and dark humour
Growing up in Co Mayo helped Colin Barrett shape wild visual narratives written in local voices
Jhumpa Lahiri: A serious voice that comes from nowhere
‘It is not easy to like,’ the candid author says of her latest novel, the Booker-shortlisted ‘The Lowland’
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices