Conversations with Friends: How we made the new Sally Rooney TV drama
Director Lenny Abrahamson and cast talk about adapting the author’s debut novel
Irish teenager is youngest recipient in Queen Elizabeth’s birthday honours
Undertones frontman Feargal Sharkey is made an OBE in this year’s list
Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I was offered some very high-profile prestige movies’
The Dubliner on the exhausting success of Room, anti-Semitism and his ghostly The Little Stranger
Lenny Abrahamson to direct Sally Rooney adaptation for BBC
Novelist to bring her own work to small screen with Oscar-nominated Irishman
Virgin Media greenlights sponsorship of Dublin film festival
Broadband provider will back event for next three years
100 books by women you have to read
Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock review: Historical fiction at its finest
A stellar debut set in Georgian London blends mythical sea creatures and merchant life
Sugar Money review: vivid depiction of Caribbean slavery
Jane Harris’s third novel is an unashamedly old-school adventure story in the vein of Robert Louis Stevenson
Female voices to fore in first half of Cannes Film Festival
Maren Ade’s ‘Toni Erdmann’ is a strong early contender for Palme d’Or
The cobwebs are blown off the English curriculum
A revamped list of texts has been brought in at secondary level. But is it too modern?
Sarah Waters: ‘I kind of missed the lesbian stuff’
The historical novelist has set her new book in the 1920s, fresh territory for her. It is ‘a love story complicated by crime’
Lenny talks Frank: the movie that won't give him a big head
In Lenny Abrahamson’s latest film, Michael Fassbender plays the lead character from inside a huge papier-mache head. The Irish director gives us the lowdown on the notorious noggin, his ‘Celtic Tiger Trilogy’ and more
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