Maeve Binchy

I’ll write to make the actors cry again – laugh, too. We’ll need a laugh after this

Before now, emphasis was placed on rural landscape and western seaboard in Irish art. This book takes a very different approach

It’s a small gesture that can mean a lot. It can also contribute to your family history

Pioneering journalist, trade unionist and feminist activist

A generation of female superheroes in tartan skirts and gabardines

Book review: Emma Gannon’s smart debut novel looks at the decision to be childfree

Older feminists are not always delighted when the young enjoy freedoms they fought for

The writer on Irishness, feminism, mental health and happy endings

Fr William Stuart says situation is critical in Lebanon camp. ‘People are starving’

. . . novel. Patsy McGarry

I collect snippets of strangers’ conversations like other people collect beer mats or vintage Pyrex dishes. It's not without its hazards

Many of the health stories 50 years ago are all too relevant today, with rows about hospital sites, private versus public healthcare and concerns about cervical smear tests

Eunice Baily and Clare Brazil met in school and have exchanged the same card since

Artist Maria Simonds-Gooding settled in Dunquin in the 1960s in a Blasket islander’s cottage

The writer’s deploring of ‘etiquette fiends’ started a letters page row that led to the setting-up of what is now Children in Hospital in Ireland

MoLI in Newman House, Dublin opens this month featuring Joyce’s notebooks and more

The Irish writer’s new BBC Radio 4 show began with the theme of Ireland and the Irish

Big, bright service stations have changed long-distance driving, and who you meet

I’ve spent every summer on the Kerry beach since 1973. Now I’m bringing my son back, to teach him how to swim

Linehan pioneered the teaching of English in Zambia, which became official policy

Why out of all the Binchy books did Breda Cash Productions walk into this one?

We propose sites for new street names, sculptures for International Women’s Day

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

An Irishman’s Diary

Despite critics’ perceptions, the writer addressed radical topics throughout her career

An Irishman’s Diary

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

Six-bed Victorian house was once school where Maeve Binchy learned her ABC

Donald Clarke on the best portrayals of the city on film, from ‘The Informer’ to ‘Sing Street’

Bloom, Cat Laughs, Forbidden Fruit, Vantastival, Women’s Mini Marathon and more

When Ireland hosted its first Eurovision it was beset by Troubles with a capital ‘T’

An unlikely couple face up to parenthood, and Maeve Binchy’s evergreen story

‘On Christmas Eve there was always a sherry reception for the customers’

Period home to a family of artists has played a starring role in Sing Street

Lost Leads, 1970: Gardaí struggled to find the cause of a fire that ‘almost completely destroyed’ a woman’s remains

After decades as a forensic anthropologist, Kathy Reichs decided to try her hand at fiction. But the woman behind ‘Bones’ has never lost her scientific edge

Joyce, Binchy and O’Brien show ‘a link between lapsed Catholics and philo-semitism’