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
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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
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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
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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
New artist residency scheme in schools set to nurture creativity
Government programme aimed at inspiring ‘brilliant young actors, musicians and artists’
Neil Jordan: ‘I couldn’t make The Crying Game today’
The director on his new historical fiction novel, Harvey Weinstein and ageism in film
Twitter helped me find a home, make friends and gives me my daily bread
Russ Parsons: After I was hacked I realised realised just how important the platform has been to my Irish existence
Funny old games: The sporting year in a year like no other
Mary Hannigan runs the rule over the weird and sometimes wonderful in 2020
‘Test live performances’ to take place in National Concert Hall and Abbey
Events to take place later in December, says Minister for Arts and Culture
Modern Ireland is unimaginable without Jack Charlton
Finding Jack Charlton lays bare his remarkable connection with the Irish psyche
Finding Jack Charlton: A sensitive chronicle of his ‘greatest challenge’
Film shows first-hand accounts of former Ireland manager’s struggles with dementia
Roddy Doyle: ‘My unpublished first novel was sh*te’
He knew this because, when he started writing The Commitments, he knew it was good
Top Irish authors contribute to new book to help adult literacy
Publication in plain English marks 40 years of the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA)
Colm Meaney on shooting in the pandemic: ‘I’ve been tested up the kazoo’
The actor has fronted a video highlighting the plight of backstage workers in theatre
Testing . . . One, Two – Frank McNally on the surprising connections of a sensitive body part
An Irishman’s Diary
The critical role of mirth and laughter in a time of plague
Humour turns our discontents and anxieties into a joke and helps reconcile us to our fate
Alan Parker helped kickstart a cultural renaissance in Dublin
The director, who has died aged 76, created a diverse range of hits during his career
Alan Parker on The Commitments: ‘I never met an Irish person who didn’t like it’
The director on making The Commitments, keeping tabs on the cast and breaking the record for swearwords in a film
Sabina Higgins leads charge for arts centre at Sean O’Casey house
Dublin City Council is buying house for homeless accommodation
Iftas: Normal People arrives too late for ‘virtual’ awards
Jessie Buckley and Niamh Algar among nominees for Irish Film and TV Awards
Fintan O’Toole: The newly visible dads, and an ordinary and wonderful kind of love
Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown
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