Joseph O’Neill became ‘public face’ of Cloverhill prison for work on tackling violence

Michael Dervan: Two evenings of music and words as part of Ireland 2016 got me thinking about the links that were missed

For their collaboration commemorating the Rising at the NCH, Colm Tóibín and Donnacha Dennehy have focused on the uneasy time when Casement and Conrad shared quarters in the Belgian colony

Patrick Pearse set out a mystical rationale for Irish nationality. How does his vision stand up in now, and can a nation state compete with the forces of hypercapitalism?

For a decade cricket became a sinister means of surveilling New York’s Muslim community

The professions of writer and lawyer share lots of similarities so it is perhaps no surprise that so many Irish lawyers venture into fiction. Sarah Gilmartin hears the evidence

The Irish novel may be at a crossroads, says Bert Wright, but Irish fiction is as vibrant and multifarious now as fiction has ever been in any culture in literary history

Sara Baume and Colm Tóibín will also take part in this year’s literary event in Galway

Niall Williams nominated for ‘History of the Rain’ and Joseph O’Neill in running for ‘The Dog’