When confronted by the BBC’s noisy, modern version of The Pursuit of Love, harsh reality clashes with a long-held principle and this viewer finds himself fuming

Russ Parsons: After I was hacked I realised realised just how important the platform has been to my Irish existence

The author created the fictional detective Philip Marlowe and many of his novels became major Hollywood movies

Dylan, Patti Smith, Gil Scott-Heron and Lou Reed wrote song-poems that transcended pop, and bands such as Fontaines DC are keeping rock and poetry in perfect rhyme

Tóibín’s error when discussing the prose in genre fiction was to move from ‘I just get bored’ to ‘it’s blank, it’s nothing’

At 64, is the Ballymena actor too old to play Ramond Chandler’s much acted detective?

Gemma Tipton finds some of the best places to wet your whistle in Ireland and around the globe

The actor has done plenty of serious roles. Will anyone begrudge him a crime caper?

Waterford boasts strong connections to crime novelist Raymond Chandler

How Ireland’s first true crime writer went from hawking his own books around Galway pubs, to rubbing shoulders with some of the best crime authors in the world

‘Whatever sick and twisted deed you read about, I’ve come across worse in real life’

A round-up of the latest thrillers from Michael Connelly, Ruth Downie, Andrew Martin, Bob Van Laerhoven and Val McDermid

Bestselling author John Connolly and Irish Times critic Declan Burke asked more than 100 crime writers to pick their favourite crime novel. The result is Books To Die For - this is what they learned

Society of Friends played major role in economic life of city