Kate O Brien

Food File: First look at new Cornelscourt foodhall, supper clubs and a friendly reminder

A fresh food offering in Dunnes; dining with the stars at Itsa; and say goodbye to Thornton’s

Exercise for menopause: it’s time to get moving

Resistance training is the best way to prevent loss of muscle mass, which is a major cause of disability in older women

Irish soldiers encouraged to join German brigade

1916/2016: a miscellany

Colm Tóibín: enjoying life on the Brooklyn road

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

Irish culture in 1945 was both lively and bleak

The ‘Irish Times’ Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks project has published its first 30 entries, covering 1916-1945 – a time of paradoxical philistinism and creativity

10 milestones in Irish gay rights

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

In praise of Kate O’Brien, by Frank McNally

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

In praise of Kate O’Brien, by Olivia O’Leary

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

Conor Brady: ‘readers need never be lonely; writers need never be idle’

‘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’

Roy Foster on Hubert Butler, WB Yeats and Phineas Finn

‘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’