It is not an accident that The Frames made their first post-Island record with financial backing from Whelan’s, the venue at the heart of the Dublin scene Hansard did more than anyone to birth
Singer-songwriter and activist found fame with The Frames and The Commitments and won an Oscar for best song
His best-song Oscar win with Markéta Irglová in 2008 alerted the world that the country’s screen industry was on the march
Djamel White’s gangland novel All Them Dogs is up against former winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart as well as Elizabeth Strout and nine others
New and overlooked authors are competing against several past winners and previously shortlisted writers. They can’t all make it
The author and non-profit founder on creativity, AI and finding meaning in life
Gripping thrillers, sport memoirs and the best recent fiction to pack in your holiday suitcase
Asking necessary questions is sometimes genuinely tough - it can look like prejudice or punching down at vulnerable people
A cohort of 193 graduates lined up at Templemore training college on Friday to begin their careers in law enforcement
May 2nd-8th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
‘Extraordinary testimony’ to Irish writing includes Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Sally Rooney and dozens more
An American publisher dismissed them as unfunny, senseless and dull
Television: The good work done by Fighting Words on the north side of Dublin is celebrated in this agreeable, if at times workmanlike, documentary
Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle are set to bring their In Conversation show to Dublin and Belfast next year
Anthony Burrill joins forces with printers Freddie Snowe and John King for new work made using historic equipment
Booker Prize winner David Szalay, who abandoned Flesh several times in the early stages, stresses the importance of risk when writing a novel
‘We had never read anything quite like it,’ says judging panel chair Roddy Doyle of the author’s ‘extraordinary, singular’ novel
Plus: the other Guinness book; Roddy Doyle’s struggles to read the Booker small print; and Paul Murphy’s worries about Irish military aggression
Established authors dominate this year’s shortlist with half of the nominees shortlisted previously
Authors Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Colin Barrett and Belinda McKeon reflect on the Irish relationship with the magazine ahead of an Abbey Theatre celebration
Keane is epitome of chill during polished performance with Roddy Doyle in Cork
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
Ireland event guide for the week June 7th–13th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann statement calls for release of hostages and protection of the lives and human rights of all innocent people
From early school leaver to author: Djamel White’s life was changed forever when Roddy Doyle’s creative writing organisation gave him encouragement
Glenn Patterson is founding patron of Fighting Words NI and director of the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast
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
March 29th-April 4th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
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
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 author approaches the subject with skill and sensitivity
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
Novelists Ayobami Adebayo and Kiley Reid join critic Chris Power to decide prestigious prizewinner
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
This comprehensive and wonderfully written book serves to remind us of how much outstanding Irish theatre has been produced in the past quarter-century
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
November 2nd-8th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Winners of the 19th year of the An Post book awards will be announced at a ceremony in December
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
Misogyny is an insidious virus running through Doyle’s latest Paula Spencer novel, as the Covid pandemic frames the plot
The author reflects on returning to Paula Spencer for his 13th novel, intergenerational trauma, and anti-immigration sentiment in Ireland
Latest iteration of the world’s first commuter railway set to be transformed by new fleet
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
Animation of Roddy Doyle’s children’s book of same name leans into writer’s reliable ear for the vernacular
Some 30 years after Family aired on RTÉ, Ireland has changed in many ways but domestic violence is still an ugly truth
The author of One Day on his new novel, You Are Here; the Irish writers he admires; and father-son relationships
Ingrid Persaud on the real-life bogeyman of her new novel, coming late to writing and Trinidad’s affinity with Ireland
Madcap enthusiasm of author’s writing will win over many readers
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
Theatre: Roddy Doyle’s tale gets a fitting stage adaptation from Fionn Foley – and splendid cast have a blast making it sing
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
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
It’s a nailbiting time for readers. Five Irish authors have won the Booker since it began in 1969
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
