Emma Donoghue

Co-director of the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School helped to launch many acting careers

The author’s bestselling novel of confinement has new resonance during coronavirus

Along with the chronic physical illnesses of diabetes and fibromyalgia, Emma Donoghue (26) has had postnatal depression and anorexia to contend with. But life is slowly getting better

Today FM host acknowledges jaded public mood, while Jennifer Zamparelli reveals a gritty side of Irish life

Raymond Deane’s Vagabones dramatises one of the few witch trials to have ever taken place in Ireland

Yuga Wang makes her Irish debut, and Vagabones gets its first Irish airing

As a teacher, I have always known how tough the exams are. Reform is overdue

The Dubliner on the exhausting success of Room, anti-Semitism and his ghostly The Little Stranger

The ‘significant’ financial burden will have implications beyond cancelled events

A remarkable California teen comes to a realisation about her predatory father

The ‘Room’ author on making a musical version of her all-conquering book for the stage

In the final part of our series on influential books by women writers, we focus on Irish authors

How does life change for a film-maker who now has that gold man on the shelf?

‘Strange Occurrences in a Small Irish Village’ shows the power of religious iconography

The Dublin author’s book is an intensification of the common experience of having a child, in all its claustrophobic terror and glory