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Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle announce May 2026 shows
Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle are set to bring their In Conversation show to Dublin and Belfast next year
‘I instinctively picked up the H, O, P, and E’: Print Museum and graphic artist collaborate
Anthony Burrill joins forces with printers Freddie Snowe and John King for new work made using historic equipment
This year’s Booker winner David Szalay: ‘I really appreciate Roddy Doyle’s simple, practical advice’
Booker Prize winner David Szalay, who abandoned Flesh several times in the early stages, stresses the importance of risk when writing a novel
Booker Prize 2025: David Szalay wins for Flesh
‘We had never read anything quite like it,’ says judging panel chair Roddy Doyle of the author’s ‘extraordinary, singular’ novel
Def Leppard frontman’s neighbour rocked by high decibels emanating from Stepaside home
Plus: the other Guinness book; Roddy Doyle’s struggles to read the Booker small print; and Paul Murphy’s worries about Irish military aggression
Booker Prize 2025: Kiran Desai, David Szalay and Andrew Miller among shortlisted authors
Established authors dominate this year’s shortlist with half of the nominees shortlisted previously
Roddy Doyle: ‘I got a phone call from one of the New Yorker’s famous fact-checkers’
Authors Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Colin Barrett and Belinda McKeon reflect on the Irish relationship with the magazine ahead of an Abbey Theatre celebration
Roy Keane Live at the Marquee: ‘I think Paul McGrath could kill the pope and they’d say the pope deserved it’
Keane is epitome of chill during polished performance with Roddy Doyle in Cork
Roy Keane’s life has had many twists and turns, but his love for Cork never wavered
Keane is in Cork this week for three sold-out evenings in conversation with Roddy Doyle. Earlier in his life, this would have been unimaginable
Event guide: Pulp, Beyond the Pale, Cork Midsummer and other best things to do in Ireland this week
Ireland event guide for the week June 7th–13th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way
Almost 400 Irish writers sign statement calling for immediate ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann statement calls for release of hostages and protection of the lives and human rights of all innocent people
Celebrating 10 years of Fighting Words student storytelling: ‘Not for a minute have they ceased to amaze’
Glenn Patterson is founding patron of Fighting Words NI and director of the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast
‘There’s a spark in Fighting Words that ignites the minute you come through the door’
From early school leaver to author: Djamel White’s life was changed forever when Roddy Doyle’s creative writing organisation gave him encouragement
Cúirt literature festival at 40: ‘There is a sense of an Irish writing culture exploding around the world’
When I was an impoverished student sustained by Pot Noodles, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature introduced me to literature I would not have encountered otherwise
The Guide: Moonlight – The Philip Lynott Enigma, Gabrielle, The Book of Mormon and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
March 29th-April 4th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
‘The city is always changing but this is the Dublin of now’: Declan Meade on capturing the capital in words and prose
Dublin, Written in Our Hearts, which marks 20 years of One Dublin, One Book, features Anne Enright, Roddy Doyle, Belinda McKeon, Paula Meehan and Kevin Barry
Jennifer Johnston obituary: Writer who combined brevity with razor-sharp wisdom
While Johnston was initially associated with the Big House literary tradition, she was above all a minutely observant chronicler of family dysfunction in Ireland
The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst: An interesting and unusual book told from a 12-year-old’s perspective
The author approaches the subject with skill and sensitivity
Read this and weep: Books that made writers cry
John Boyne, Edel Coffey, Ferdia Lennon, Sarah Gilmartin and a dozen other authors and critics on books that had a profound emotional effect on them
Roddy Doyle to chair 2025 Booker Prize judging panel alongside Sarah Jessica Parker
Novelists Ayobami Adebayo and Kiley Reid join critic Chris Power to decide prestigious prizewinner
‘Dreadful government, lack of nightlife, lack of cultural spaces’: Dublin writer Thommas Kane Byrne on his home city
What’s Next For?: TKB, whose new play, It’s Always Your Bleedin’ Own, completes his St Mary’s Mansions trilogy, on the evolution of Ireland’s capital
Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Development and diversity – Deserving of a wide readership
This comprehensive and wonderfully written book serves to remind us of how much outstanding Irish theatre has been produced in the past quarter-century
David Marcus, The Irish Times and a golden age of literary journalism
Even at a time of much cross-fertilisation between the literary and journalistic worlds, it was a brave and radical idea to run a regular creative-writing page in a daily newspaper. In pursuing this, David Marcus nurtured many young talents
The Guide: The Corrs, Dublin Book Festival, Cork film festival and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
November 2nd-8th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Irish Book Awards 2024 shortlist: Sally Rooney, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, David McWilliams and more
Winners of the 19th year of the An Post book awards will be announced at a ceremony in December
RTÉ's Oliver Callan ‘insults everybody equally’ as his rapid-fire jokes fall flat
Radio: RTÉ Radio 1 host sounds like neither the satirical impressionist he is nor the chatshow host he has become. Instead he resembles a stand-up comic flailing around for quick laughs
The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle: Paula Spencer gets to the dark heart of an Ireland that hides behind jokes
Misogyny is an insidious virus running through Doyle’s latest Paula Spencer novel, as the Covid pandemic frames the plot
Roddy Doyle: ‘I feel quite good about living in Ireland. But I think we were probably a bit smug’
The author reflects on returning to Paula Spencer for his 13th novel, intergenerational trauma, and anti-immigration sentiment in Ireland
Bosco, a millennium milk bottle and marriage equality badges as the Dart celebrates 40th birthday
Latest iteration of the world’s first commuter railway set to be transformed by new fleet
An American on the Irish sense of humour: ‘I’m very literal ... I thought everybody hated me’
Actor Tierra Porter came to Ireland in 2019 from Georgia, in the US. Her expectations were wildly different from the reality of living in Dublin
A Greyhound of a Girl: Terrific Irish ensemble enlivens charming tale that makes weighty themes feel feather-light
Animation of Roddy Doyle’s children’s book of same name leans into writer’s reliable ear for the vernacular
Roddy Doyle: The hate mail and death threats started in the spring of 1994
Some 30 years after Family aired on RTÉ, Ireland has changed in many ways but domestic violence is still an ugly truth
David Nicholls: ‘I’m lucky enough to have lots of Irish friends and hope that I got away with writing an Irish character’
The author of One Day on his new novel, You Are Here; the Irish writers he admires; and father-son relationships
‘In Trinidad we always get on well with Irish people, we both love storytelling’
Ingrid Persaud on the real-life bogeyman of her new novel, coming late to writing and Trinidad’s affinity with Ireland
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon: one of the most original debuts of the year
Madcap enthusiasm of author’s writing will win over many readers
Fiction to look out for in 2024: Returning favourites, a fearsome degenerate, and Ireland’s trailblazing all-woman rock band
New novels by Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín and Marian Keyes are among the works in the pipeline, along with eagerly anticipated debuts by Ferdia Lennon and Scott McKendry
The Giggler Treatment review: A glorious miniature musical that’s great fun for children and adults alike
Theatre: Roddy Doyle’s tale gets a fitting stage adaptation from Fionn Foley – and splendid cast have a blast making it sing
From the Gate to Glór: 35 pantos and other Christmas shows around Ireland for the 2023 festive season
The Gaiety’s 150th pantoversary, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and a new version of Peter Pan by Roddy Doyle are among this winter’s festive highlights
Fionn Foley on adapting Roddy Doyle’s The Giggler Treatment: ‘I did what no person would ever advise you to do’
The writer took a gamble when he went ahead with neither a commission nor interest from a theatre. Now it’s the Ark’s Christmas production
Which of the three Pauls nominated for the Booker prize will win? There’s only one Paul for me
It’s a nailbiting time for readers. Five Irish authors have won the Booker since it began in 1969
Peter Pan review: Fantastic family fun as Roddy Doyle revitalises the tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up
Theatre: The Gate’s fast-paced Christmas show, relocated to early 20th-century Dublin, will entertain parents as well as children
Gate Theatre delays Peter Pan opening night
Roddy Doyle’s new version of Peter Pan postponed because of ‘intricate and technical nature’ of show, says Dublin theatre
‘It’s radically different’: Behind the scenes of Roddy Doyle’s Dublin Peter Pan
The author of The Snapper and The Van has set his new version of JM Barrie’s classic story in Ireland
‘Beacon for change’: The Gate Theatre announces new leadership team
Róisín McBrinn takes over as artistic director and Colm O’Callaghan as executive director
Housing crisis is a ‘shaming thing’, Roddy Doyle tells Citizens’ Assembly
Group asked to consider and report to Oireachtas on new local government structures for Dublin
Dublin pub staff owed over €70,000 in redundancy after closure
Six worked at Foxhound Inn in Kilbarrack which featured in Roddy Doyle film The Van
Gordon Brown: ‘We’ve got to give people a message of hope’
The former British prime minister spoke to Fintan O’Toole at the Irish Times Summer Nights Festival
‘If I was minister for housing’ ... David McWilliams’s plan for €220k homes
A site-value tax and co-operative building are among the economist’s housing crisis solutions
The Irish Times Summer Nights festival: Everything you need to know
Chris O’Dowd, Maureen Dowd and Mary Lou McDonald among guests for online series
Irish Times Summer Nights festival: Final details revealed
Chris O’Dowd and Mary Lou McDonald among those appearing at this year’s event
Tune in to tune out: authors on music and the writing process
Roddy Doyle, Sarah Crossan and Shane Hegarty on the role songs play in their craft
Strange confection: The Commitments and the battle for Dublin’s soul
A British director, an Irish cast and an African-American soundtrack – but it worked
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
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