Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

Golf clubs likely to be among first venues to re-open but it may test our solidarity

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

Barry McCormack looks beyond Dublin for his brilliant, almost-concept album Mean Time

Broadcaster’s tapestries, paintings among pieces in Sotheby’s auction of Irish works

The author Colm Tóibín discusses female Irish novelists, families, and when he wishes he had a TV

We hear about TV’s current Golden Age but Family was as great as anything today

News, views and opinions from Student Hub contributors and Irish Times writers

‘Guardians of the GAA’ charts the history of the force’s involvement in Gaelic Games

The authoritarian version of Catholicism is over. In other forms it is alive and well

Many are privately unchurched as they resent hegemony of church authorities

Former Senator and TD had intended campaigning for repeal of Eight Amendment

In Conversation: actors Peter Coonan and Marie Mullen

Self-confessed shelf addict John Boyne checks out how fellow authors like to stack

Sotheby’s also offering a first-edition copy of ‘Ulysses’ with a top estimate of £250,000

I propose that the new brand for our Midlands should be ‘Tranquillity Ireland’

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

Seamus Finn obituary: born December 31st, 1946; died September 1st, 2017

The line about the Public Services Card is part of a grand Irish tradition

A small county’s team going on a run that lasts this long is something to be savoured

Seán Doran and Liam Browne want people in the Border counties to celebrate their shared literary heritge

Populist rants of Stephen Fry and Richard Dawkins insult intelligence as well as the faithful

The novelist no longer wastes energy on things that don’t interest him. He talks Aosdána, tennis and his latest novel

Arja Kajermo uses fable and charming illustrations to bring a family’s struggles to life

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

Dublin may appear omnipotent but at least four counties will not be cowed in summer

Model arts centre outreach scheme takes paintings out of gallery to inspire children

Novelist moved to Ireland in 1968 and his best-known works are partially or totally set here

Writing is bad for family life, says the Irish author. ‘You take so much. I wouldn’t have been able to live with me’

The collective works in our series show how molten and defiant Irish artworks can be

Mary Mitchell O’Connor’s blunder latest in series of botched efforts to connect with emigrants

President was right to speak of the need to recognise the atrocities committed by both sides

The Donald Trump example shows how the family table can be the perfect battlefield

Auctioned collection included signed copy of Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of Salesman’

Enda Bowe’s photographs of an unnamed Irish town reveal young people on the brink of greater awareness

‘The Raped Little Runaway’ was deemed ‘indecent or obscene’ by regulatory body

Famous author and his wife took thousands of pictures of rural Mayo in 1930s and 1940s

The controversial author’s latest novel sees a woman fall for an outsider with a dark past

As the film of ‘Brooklyn’ gets good reviews, Tóibín’s status at home and abroad rises yet another notch

A stirring debut collection on the loneliness of being alive