‘I have a ritual of making tea, lighting a candle and then I am gone into my fictional world’

Tips for budding authors and poets, from beating writer’s block to finding an agent

Theatre asks writers to create monologues for 50 performers, to premiere online this month

Kampala Letter: Coronavirus concerns dominate celebration of Irish connections

Donald Clarke: BBC’s ‘novels that shaped our world’ list is terrible in a very particular way

Raised by the Village teaches us we should all be socialists in order to raise teenagers

Dubai’s foreign labour record is appalling, but it could teach us a thing or two about urban vision

Edna O’Brien, Margaret Atwood show artistic imagination does not abide by aging

Keep Ireland Open makes complaint to Wicklow Co Council over erection of new fencing at estate

Previous saoithe have included Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney and Brian Friel, and Doyle believes that Ireland’s composers are up there with our literary greats

Home of late Guinness heir Garech Browne fetches less than €28m price tag

Film sex is fine. But sex featuring Irish actors, in films set in Ireland? That never really works

Previous holders of title include Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney

Declan Buckley, the man behind Shirley Temple Bar, on the paintings of Gabhann Dunne, Emma Dabiri’s Don’t Touch My Hair and why Madonna’s new album is worth repeated listens.

TV star is far removed from De Valera’s vision of suppressed women

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

Patrick Freyne: Twink seems to have her own studio audience in her house

Review: Between playing the hits at 3Arena, chief Eagle Don Henley professed the band’s love of all things Irish

Theatre apologises after difficulty with system that sees ‘parts of the set fly in and out’

Abbey Theatre stages O’Brien’s subversive classic as a much safer journey and Blue Raincoat re-re-imagines adventures in Wonderland.

The Abbey’s new take makes Edna O’Brien’s novel safe for any syllabus

Programme launched for Dublin festival, this year celebrating ‘The Country Girls Trilogy’

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

US author James Mustich says the book that took him 14 years to write should be thought of as a kind of imaginary bookshop

Presidential Distinguished Service Awards to be presented to 10 people by Michael D Higgins

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

Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list

Portrait-painter Anthony Palliser on his friendship with Garech Browne, halcyon days at Luggala and his famous Irish subjects

Colm Tóibín pays tribute to great author who was a ferocious critic of Donald Trump but a close friend of Edna O’Brien

‘Country Girls’ author on ‘our unhinged times’ as she receives $50,000 Pen award

Young Irish fiction writers have made strides in recent years, and 2018 promises some fine debuts. Here six authors introduce their books

The great American writer on Trump, the #MeToo movement and living the retirement life

Artists played a vital role in the State's formation and since independence have held it to account

In 2012, Garret Kelly founded SEE Change Net, a think tank campaigning on sustainable development issues

This famous, infamous, beloved and influential novel didn’t break the mould. It made it

Joyce, Binchy and O’Brien show ‘a link between lapsed Catholics and philo-semitism’

Author writes six-page letter to Arts Council describing proposals as ‘oddly North Korean’

There are upsides to being an immigrant. Yet I fear I will end up like one of John McGahern’s placeless people

London is clamping down on huge "iceberg" basements, but Will and Kate’s plans might be the exception

From ‘Dress suitably, and buy a revolver’ and 'A terrible beauty' to 'We all partied'