Louise O'Neill

Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre

Peter Donnelly’s ‘The President’s Cat’, Louise O’Neill’s ‘The Surface Breaks’ and more

Looking out for one another: Stage highlights take dispiriting look at blame, victimhood and apathy in society, and wonder about how to rebuild trust

Drama and performance can play a role in teasing out the grey areas of consent, and changing hearts and behaviour

Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland

Numbers using charity’s services increased by almost a fifth in ‘very challenging’ year

Delicious, daring and downright useful ideas for making the best of our summer days

Television is all artifice, and the point is that the audience knows this too

Arts Council chairwoman Sheila Pratschke says it must seek out and support artists of the future

An Irish rape case exposes a culture of victim-blaming in the stage adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel; repressed desires drive a boy’s own story from Kabul to San Francisco

Zany or dark? Smart or dumb? Gently reassuring or wickedly disturbing? The festival has it all

Cork author Louise O’Neill on her feminist reimagining of The Little Mermaid

Dublin City Council says Question of the Eighth event contravened its code of conduct

Given the monumental influence college has had on me, my lack of impact upon it now seems disheartening. Louise Lawless on her final days in college

‘I’ve had to think of different, healthier ways of dealing with anxiety’

What’s the one thing every Irish person should do before they die?

Author Louise O’Neill is on the Late Late. Hitchcock’s shower scene features on BBC2

The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre

Marian Keyes is having a Sudden Wild Enthusiasm for a very distracting and beautiful mermaid shaped blanket

The restorative power of art gets a colourful makeover in this debut YA novel

There has never been a better time to tune in to this growing community of talented people

Review: As RTÉ 2 broadcasts a necessary documentary on rape culture, Netflix looks at the British monarchy

Louise O’Neill explores Ireland’s rape culture in this fascinating Reality Bites documentary

Comedian Shappi Khorsandi’s debut novel is a sharply observed coming-of-age tale

We began with James Joyce’s ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’, from 1916. Now we’d like you to vote for the work on this shortlist that best represents 2015 for you

Some admirers celebrate the playwright’s work on the 400th anniversary of his death

Thoughtful commercial fiction with a southside Dublin backdrop of drugs, partying and growing up

Dublin Shakespeare Society; Kevin Curran reading; All-Ireland Poetry Day; Trinity talk on Derry authors; hunger strike talk at UCD

National Women’s Council of Ireland holds special Rising centenary ‘soapbox’ in Dublin

Alleged sharing of explicit images on Facebook highlights sexual harassment in college

On-air analysis of killings prefers sensation to perspective, as Joe Duffy and Aine Lawlor hear

The Oscar-nominated star of ‘Brooklyn’ has been raving about this Dublin nail salon on the red carpet and US TV

From the frenzied seasonal supermarket shop to spending the season away from home to the challenges of a menopausal Christmas, the women’s podcast brings you festive reflections from seven Irish writers

Attacking a woman’s appearance is part of violence against women, FemFest hears

Joe Duffy, Sara Baume, Jim McGuinness, Louise O’Neill, Donal Ryan, Sinéad Gleeson and Niall Breslin among winners at Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2015

Claire Hennessy reports on last weekend’s inaugural Irish YA convention, a fan event but one rich in debate and author insights

Young adult fiction is the largest growing genre in contemporary fiction

Editor Niamh Mulvey: ‘Young adult fiction’ covers such a broad range that the only definition I find satisfying is this – fiction that features teenage protagonists

‘Not Asking for It’ will share stories of when consent was assumed but not given

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