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Arts&Antiques: Rare Jack B Yeats book in sale for bibliophiles

Private library of John Wyse Jackson goes under the hammer at Purcell auctioneers

Game, Set, Mismatch – Frank McNally on journalism’s favourite word, Billy Brennan revisited, and a tale of two Zoom events

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London Calling – Frank McNally on the joys of a forgotten education

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Training session – Frank McNally on the Irish-American cyclist who set a (train) track record

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Blindboy Boatclub: ‘I had the choice of being a psychotherapist or a mad bastard’

Mask-wearing podcaster and author is first guest at the Irish Times Winter Nights Festival

No Irish Need Apply – Frank McNally on the national hang-up about capital punishment

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Third Degree Byrnes – Frank McNally on an unexpected revelation in Myles na gCopaleen’s favourite pun

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Glossed in translation – Frank McNally on ambivalent statues, Flann O’Brien rebranded, and the plan to move Nelson’s Pillar

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Through a Glass, Darkly – Frank McNally on the mythology of Dublin pubs

Grandeur with magical gardens on Blackrock terrace for €2.75m

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The Irish Times view on artists’ incomes: pay them fairly

The arts are poorly paid in Ireland – and many artists are regularly asked, and expected, to work for free

Auction results and forthcoming sales

Yeats wedding tokens, diamonds and a William Scott for €150,000

Have yourself a very vintage Christmas: antique gifts for all

The most sustainable choice of all could also be a good investment

‘In Toronto I paid a man to speak Irish with me for an hour every week’

Why I made the decision to return to Ireland after 25 years in Canada

Paul Merton: Boris Johnson stopped being funny when he became prime minister

Have I Got News For You star on a career in comedy, Boris Johnson and his Irish revolutionary grandfather

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

Sailing Ireland’s west coast: the wild, watery Atlantic way

A journey through ancient isles, myths and deadly seas along the western coast of Ireland

Blindboy: ‘Being recognisable is absolute hell’

The Rubberbandit talks politics, podcasts, his new book, and angry men with Patrick Freyne

A star (in a bar) in the East – Frank McNally on Myles na gCopaleen and Japan

Worldcon mad: a collision between science fiction and Flann O’Brien

Important principles from the catechism of cliché and a parallel development

At Swim-Two-Bobs – Frank McNally on the mysteries of numerology in the work of Bob Dylan and Flann O’Brien

At Swim-Two-Birds pays extended homage to the number 3 with three beginnings, three ends and a similar number of plots in between

Festival of Flann – Frank McNally on a big homecoming for Dublin’s funniest writer

Second-generation Irish: ‘We were outsiders among the English – and the Irish too’

Ian Duhig’s parents emigrated to England in the 1950s in search of a better life. In this essay, he looks at growing up under the influence of Ireland and never feeling quite at home

How Flann O’Brien can help you get a better social life

Step one: Loan your copy of the Third Policeman to someone. If they don’t like it, ditch them

Fintan O’Toole: The Flann O’Brien guide to understanding Brexit

O’Brien’s The Third Policeman – with its unending, hellish plot – is the Brexit Code

Ugly, dated Dublin: Learning to love our concrete jungle

Ellen Rowley is rediscovering the beauty of some of the city’s once-disliked buildings

Publiners: the best literary pub crawl you’ve never heard of

‘In reality, it was a boozier Bloomsday organised by the cast of The Inbetweeners’: a Dubliners tour of Dublin pubs

Theatre: a new generation takes on the words of Flann O’Brien

‘Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann)’ draws from ‘The Dalkey Archive’ and other stories

Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann) review: Nostalgia, booze and tale tales

This directorless sampling of Flann O’Brien ends up looking like an actors’ lock-in

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Frank McNally: When he said, ‘You look younger than the picture’, there was only one possible reply

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