Róisín Ingle: This new play was the best thing I’ve seen on an Irish stage in a very long time
Kevin Barry’s The Cave is the best play I’ve seen on an Irish stage in a very long time, and the c-word is used quite a lot
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The Cave review: Tommy Tiernan is perfectly cast as a downtrodden barroom philosopher in Kevin Barry’s bleakly funny play
Theatre: Directed with discipline and clarity by Caitríona McLaughlin, Tiernan, Aaron Monaghan and Judith Roddy slip comfortably into well-fitting skins
Event guide: Pulp, Beyond the Pale, Cork Midsummer and other best things to do in Ireland this week
Ireland event guide for the week June 7th–13th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way
‘God’s feet’ bring a pungent odour to Tom Dunne’s Newstalk studio
Radio review: Helming proceedings at a leisurely, good-natured pace, Dunne makes Seán Moncrieff sound like a Stasi interrogator in comparison
Kevin Barry: ‘You can almost fool yourself into thinking there’s no class system in rural Ireland’
The author on writing, living in the Sligo countryside and how digitalisation is warping our sense of reality
Almost 400 Irish writers sign statement calling for immediate ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann statement calls for release of hostages and protection of the lives and human rights of all innocent people
Event Guide: Forbidden Fruit, Swell Season and the other best things to do in Ireland this week
Ireland event guide May 31st-June 6th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Dublin, Written in Our Hearts, edited by Declan Meade: A gloriously evocative and meandering trip through the city
Anne Enright, Sarah Gilmartin, Kevin Barry and Paula Meehan are among the writers who contributed to this beautiful collection
Two Irish writers feature on £25,000 Walter Scott Prize shortlist
Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter and Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits make six-strong shortlist
Cúirt literature festival at 40: ‘There is a sense of an Irish writing culture exploding around the world’
When I was an impoverished student sustained by Pot Noodles, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature introduced me to literature I would not have encountered otherwise
The Guide: Moonlight – The Philip Lynott Enigma, Gabrielle, The Book of Mormon and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
March 29th-April 4th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
‘The city is always changing but this is the Dublin of now’: Declan Meade on capturing the capital in words and prose
Dublin, Written in Our Hearts, which marks 20 years of One Dublin, One Book, features Anne Enright, Roddy Doyle, Belinda McKeon, Paula Meehan and Kevin Barry
Tommy Tiernan to star in new Kevin Barry play as part of Abbey programme
New slate will also feature Marina Carr’s The Boy, and work from Barbara Bergin
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 25 to No 1
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: how we made the list and what it says about the state of Irish fiction
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts to select the best Irish books of the years 2000-2025. Here’s how we did it
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 50 to No 26
A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish novels and short stories of the years 2020-2025
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 100 to No 51
The Irish Times assembled a panel of 60 experts – authors, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers and journalists – to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of the years 2000-2025
A Brave New Ireland: How dystopias can reflect the state of Ireland and the West
It’s commonly believed that our future will become more digitalised, but it’s equally possible that nuclear war would allow a complete reset
Winter Papers: This handsome volume, now in its 10th issue, is full of wakeful, creative energy
Kevin Barry, Aingeala Flannery, Lucy Caldwell and more contribute to ambitious collection
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry: A vaudeville masterpiece, gaudy, ragged and irrepressible
At its best, the story careers along like a Coen brothers film; in weaker moments Tarantino bulls in
Kevin Barry: ‘I didn’t publish a book till I was 37. I thought I must have been an awful f*cking waster’
With his fourth novel about to be published, the author is now one of the most influential Irish writers
The Guide: Kilkenny Cat Laughs, Forbidden Fruit and more events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
June 1st-7th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Maeve Higgins: ‘Irish people are treated as some kind of miracle when they do well abroad’
The comedian on making it in the US and Ireland’s ‘overlooked, undervalued’ women
Records broken for Irish art in ‘thriving market’ of 2021
World records for Clarke’s Bluebeard’s Last Wife and Hone’s Composition
Voices of Ireland: Imelda May presents the Carroll’s gift shop version of Irish culture
TV review: May is charming but the cliches come thick and fast in this Sky Arts doc
Gig of the Week: Treaty – Songs, with Christy Moore, Lisa O’Neill and more
December 6th to 12th, 2021: The best of the week’s culture events, right around Ireland
A century on: Dramatising the drama that led to Anglo-Irish Treaty
Negotiations behind the foundation of the Irish State are staged at the NCH
Bored teenagers at home? Here are 10 stories that capture the do-nothing years
Writers from Alice Munro to JD Salinger mine their dangerous passions and restless ennui
‘We don’t realise what we have.’ In praise of the ‘majestic’ rural Irish town
A new book looks at the wealth we have in our Irish country towns
Ciarán Murphy: nothing beats sitting in a biblical deluge in Roscommon
Hard to focus on anything other than constant threat of pneumonia at Dr Hyde Park
Kevin Barry’s Spotify playlist: ‘State of Independence by Donna Summer always ended the night’
Check out the Night Boat to Tangier author’s playlist of songs he’s been listening to lately
Vintage Irish ads sale: From Aer Lingus-flying turkeys to Santa’s Tayto
Wide range of historical Irish advertising material from single collector at Sheppard’s
No one felt safe anywhere in Ireland during the first seven months of 1921
Cork suffered most deaths (557), followed by Dublin (360), Antrim (232), Tipperary (158)
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