Barbara Pym is Jane Austen with a side of jumble sales, public transport and laugh-out-loud one-liners
Her dour, unflinching portraits of women doing their level best not to lose any part of themselves reek of real life
Barbara Pym
Robert Plunket: A man in full re-emerges into the literary ferment
Penguin Classics set to reissue author’s 1983 novel, My Search for Warren Harding
Eoghan Harris-linked Twitter account under Garda investigation
Anti-Sinn Féin account frequently targeted journalists and other public figures
Eoghan Harris’s secret account discovered as a result of poll data
Sunday Independent columnist dropped by paper over involvement in anti-SF account
Twitter suspends nine accounts linked to profile used by Eoghan Harris
Sunday Independent drops writer and former senator for anonymous account activity
When I think it won’t hurt too much, I imagine the children I will not have
The biggest contribution anyone can make to the climate crisis is not to have a family
Don’t judge a book by its coverage
Donald Clarke: BBC’s ‘novels that shaped our world’ list is terrible in a very particular way
In praise of Autumn: Ireland is not a summery nation
As everything turns a deathly brown, it feels unpatriotic to favour any other season
From Notre Dame to Haji Ali Dargah Mosque, a parade of holy places in fiction
Since Chaucer there has been a rich tradition of writers inspired by religious buildings
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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