Colum McCann at Sandymount, Dublin in 2011. New York, however, is where he wants to live now. Photograph: Alan Betson

‘You could write about this fat bastard in Central Park,” Colum McCann laughs down the phone, enthused by the idea (his) of talking about his n(...)

Night and life: New York through the lens of Baz Luhrmann in the director’s new version of ‘The Great Gatsby’

If you stand outside 200 Claremont Avenue, a residential strip of upper Manhattan that runs past the rear entrance of Barnard College to the fringe(...)

Kevin Barry: “A prize with money attached to it has a lot of prestige.” Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

The Irish author Kevin Barry has been shortlisted for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award. The shortlist of 10 writers for the €100,0(...)

Manhattan skyline, New York; the next few years will bring a vibrant, new mid-town Irish Arts Centre to the city. Photograph: Getty

On 11th Avenue in New York, the wind soughs in off the Hudson river. At night it brings with it a thin fog that seems to have stepped from a TS(...)

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