The Booker Prize-winning author on writing through the pain, growing up in Belfast’s Murder Triangle and getting sober after leaving the ‘boozy’ city for London
Dead as Doornails ‘hugely important as a picture of its times, of the desolate condition of Irish writers and artists and the society around them’
It has rained in Ireland every day of 2026 so far. From Samuel Beckett to Flann O’Brien, the country’s literary heritage is awash with the stuff
Delusion that climate change might take the edge off Ireland’s rubbish weather has finally been laid to rest
Rain does a lot for popular culture. You’ll see a fair bit of it in Wuthering Heights if you check it out
Guinness is a multinational product, a cultural artefact and a shorthand for everyday affordability
Echoes of the past haunt the year ahead. Are there lessons to be learned?
Poet reflects on how here upbringing has shaped her works, including her latest collection Hymn to All the Restless Girls
Martina Evans on New Arcana; Chic to be Sad; Over Here; Afterparty
Many Irish women writers have engaged with Joyce - both challenging and building on his legacy in their fiction. In studying them, I was also studying myself
A full-blown bibliophile, the deceased was said to have had up to 100,000 volumes
This strange incident came about because of another surprising phenomenon little remembered today
In 1954 Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin embarked on a drunken pilgrimage including public urination on Sandymount Strand
Renters such as students who have to move each year will get hammered by this provision, while other tenants are more likely to stay put
Ever since hearing the term applied to myself a while back, I’ve been wondering what it means too
Copies of At Swim-Two-Birds fell victim to the German fire-bombing of a London warehouse in 1940
Recurring misidentification is in one way an apt tribute to O’Nolan, who spent his career pretending to be other people
Like many unwritten masterpieces, the book was born and died in a Dublin pub
Lee Welch and Paul Hallahan’s show exhibits dynamic interplay between impermanence and sensuality
One of a group of academics, along with Brian Farrell, Maurice Manning, Richard Sinnott and Fr Feargal O’Connor, who cemented UCD’s reputation for fresh political thinking
One is contained within the other, but how does that manifest itself?
An Irishman’s Diary
An Irishman’s Diary
An Irishman’s Diary
A teenage gig when Carrickmacross was called the ‘Nashville of Ireland’
The Custom House is seen as one of the most important buildings in Dublin
Beloved by millions, incomprehensible to millions more, the novel is now firmly embedded in Irish culture
TV review: Along for the Ride with David O’Doherty, a perfect vehicle for his quirky wit
An Irishman’s Diary
An Irishman’s Diary
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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