Sinéad Gleeson

Court jails man for additional year over discovery of cash ‘destined for Kinahan gang’

An Irishman’s Diary

Joe Duffy can’t believe his luck – er, sorry, ears – when callers splutter about Normal People

A parable on parenthood by the author of the award-winning essay collection, Constellations

In their 70s, Dublin couple Brendan and Breda Butler feel hemmed in by cocooning

Author on Agnes Martin’s self-isolation, Elaine Feeney’s new book and comedy of Maeve Higgins

‘It’s unexpectedly romantic,’ says John Boyne. ’It shows us our true selves,’ says Patricia Scanlan

Her new work, Actress, is about a mother-daughter relationship in bohemian Dublin

Irish authors assess the outgoing government’s legacy and what the next one needs to do

Literature events, art exhibitions and charity fundraisers planned for Little Christmas

The Decade in Culture: t’s up to us to reclaim the private self from Google and Facebook

Some of Ireland’s most successful family-run companies share the secrets of their success

The man born Paul Crossan has gone from pop jock to credible host of RTÉ's Book Show

The writer on creating a world for a new album by her husband’s band, Mount Alaska

Letter urges Government to ‘save’ 15 Usher’s Island after plans lodged to turn Dublin house into 56-bed hostel

This year’s conference aimed to reconnect health professionals with their humanity

This trip was to show my daughter her Irish family, and the land that shaped me

The Fatima Mansions and Microdisney singer on Gerhard Richter’s paintings, the cinematic works of Rainer Fassbinder, and Aidan Gillen’s ‘brooding menace’

Book review: EM Reapy, from Mayo, has a lot to live up to after her award-winning debut

Whether from Sally Rooney or Edna O’Brien, experimentalism has never frightened Irish readers

The author Colm Tóibín discusses female Irish novelists, families, and when he wishes he had a TV

For a Clontarf woman with a chronic illness joining the working world is filled with setbacks

Author and journalist on growing up in Northern Ireland, and learning from her 'failures'

Artists showed a parallel creative life was possible, one that overshadows patient life

The Booker winner on Constellations, her fellow writer’s powerful, painful new book

Viv Albertine, Nick Harper, Bastille, Kelsey Lu and a 90s nu-metal/pop-punk double bill

Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival includes Alexandra McGuinness thriller

For serious writers, invention in reportage remains taboo

Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland

What’s the one thing every Irish person should do before they die?

The Scottish novelist on being a thorn in the literary establishment’s side

Gleeson reminds book lovers what they’ll be missing when she departs the airwaves

It is fifty shades darker as submissive sex and rubber-clad gimps vie for attention

One of the best things doctors could do for patients is to listen to them

Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones is novel of the year. Winners include Marian Keyes, Graham Norton, Paul Howard, Paul O’Connell and Tana French

The 10th annual Dublin Book Festival takes place this weekend, hosting workshops, walks, talks and readings by some of Ireland’s prominent writers. Here are some of the must-sees

Rosemary Jenkinson discusses The Glass Shore and her new collection Aphrodite’s Kiss and Further Stories with academic Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado

Nature-based interventions for mental health involve gardens, animal therapy and more

In 1922, when she was five, unfriendly men with revolvers raided the Brennan family home in Ranelagh, Dublin, in search of Maeve’s father, who was on the run

Taking a dip in favour of sea swimming, but bags of herbs are less of a winner