In Oscar Wilde’s time, Irish people lived and loved much as they do now. But our laws and social conventions are still catching up

Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘She’s on record somewhere as distrusting humour on principle. But her very seriousness now seems admirable’

Irish Women Writers: ‘She wrote of women who struggled against family and church to lead free and independent lives’

‘Kate O’Brien was one of the great successes of the Censorship Board in that they succeeded in driving her out of the country into penury’

‘The Confederation of Kilkenny in the 1640s would be a good subject for a picaresque novel full of spies and skulduggery. But as we say, it’s not my period’

Memorial to be unveiled to Shannonsiders who fought with International Brigades

Condolences sent to Jackie Kennedy following her son’s death and husband’s murder

Mark Graham discovers all life on display in West Kerry

Patsy Harrold: March 10th, 1930-December 23rd, 2013

This masterful writer’s rural-Ireland background invariably emerges from her sophisticated portraits of female sensibility

UCD properties to house museum dedicated to writer

Six notebooks with a handwritten draft of the writer’s first novel, with ‘lively doodles’, to be auctioned in London

An insightful chronicle describes a daughter’s struggle to emerge from the shadow of her famous father, the writer Séan O’Faolain

An Irishman’s Diary: Revisiting John McGahern’s first novel