Mary Lavin

Mary Lavin’s short story, In the Middle of the Fields, has been adopted rather than adapted as a play

A new book explores Dublin’s literary past, an active part of living or working in the city

A fresh and sensitive perspective on an awful period in Ireland’s collective history

Author talks about her memoir, Openhearted, and defying expectations as she gets older

An Irishman’s Diary

Premiere staging of Mary Lavin’s story of grief and vulnerability strikes just right note

There was no ‘society’ separate from the church’s power to inflict damnation

Author on her Orla Walsh prints, Sinead Burke’s podcast, and why Netflix’s Money Heist is a runaway hit

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

The buns are back, but the big mugs of milky coffee are gone

Tributes paid to poet’s part in setting up Aosdána to help artists and writers

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Co Wexford born writer served as an arts adviser to former taoiseach Charles Haughey

Romantic landmark property in Meath needs vision and deep pockets

The four stories in this fine collection by an unpredictable, taboo-breaching writer capture a mood of struggling with confinement