Palestine supporters such as Sally Rooney demonised like apartheid opponents - Mary Robinson
Former president visited West Bank with Elders group and was shocked by ‘Israeli flags asserting a kind of supremacy’
Sally Rooney
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Beoga on quitting Ed Sheeran’s tour: ‘You have to hold your friends accountable’
The Irish trad band say the star should have cancelled tour dates rather than allow Macklemore to be dropped from the bill over his support for Palestine
Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley sign letter supporting Sally Rooney after UK books withdrawn
Cultural figures back Irish novelist after publisher decides to stop distribution of her books in the UK due to anti-terrorism legislation
Zionism is not racism, any more than Irish nationalism is sectarianism
If Israel-Palestine is, for us, a story about Ireland, it ought to be, not a simplistic narrative of good and evil
Sally Rooney could have made things a great deal easier for herself. She chose not to
There are very few writers as famous as Rooney, and almost none as willing to leverage that fame as bravely for a moral cause
Sales of Sally Rooney books surge in Northern Ireland after publisher stops UK distribution
Tómas Kenny, who co-runs Kennys Bookshop in Galway with his sister Sarah, says sales of Rooney’s books have increased tenfold
Sally Rooney books withdrawal should trouble those who care about freedom of expression
Suppression rarely weakens a cause, but usually hands it a martyr
The village fighting a data centre: ‘The country has been sold out to big tech’
A proposed new development in Kilmeaden village in Co Waterford has got local residents asking pointed questions including: who are data centres good for, and at what cost?
Will Sally Rooney’s books now be removed from shops across the UK?
Rooney’s Normal People has sold one million copies in UK while her first and third novels have each sold over 500,000 copies
I can’t buy Sally Rooney’s books in the UK, but I can buy Hitler’s
I am not aware of any of her novels advocating support for Palestine Action
Sally Rooney’s novels are not easy to find in Israeli bookstores despite their popularity
Author’s works still for sale from East Jerusalem’s Palestinian booksellers after being pulled from Israel’s shelves in 2021
McEntee to raise Sally Rooney book sales withdrawal with UK foreign secretary
Minister for Foreign Affairs ‘shocked’ publisher can no long sell works because of author’s support for Palestine Action group
Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action
Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling author’s works
Irish citizen pleads not guilty to murder in Hungary, fuel prices, Drumcree and ‘notions’
Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan
If my granny saw me reading a novel, she’d tell me to do something useful
The Irish woman’s image has changed abroad, from harried mother to high-end creative. But how does this match reality?
Daisy Edgar-Jones: ‘It was great practice for Sense and Sensibility, all that time in Fermanagh fields with cows’
The actor’s Irish childhood holidays helped make her a breakout star of Normal People – a happy memory as her new film, Sense and Sensibility, arrives
Data centre opposed by author Sally Rooney has planning overturned on climate concerns
US firm had chosen Mayo because of electricity constraints around Dublin
Meg Mason: ‘It’s really warping, all these people who don’t know you, who feel like they do’
Meg Mason, the author of bestseller Sorrow and Bliss, returns with Sophie, Standing There, a meta novel about a lonely literary-festival worker’s parasocial relationship with a famous writer
Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction – elegant, ambitious and very smart
Laura McGrath’s brilliant eye-opener on the role of literary agents is a delight
Hundreds of Irish writers set to share millions of euro after €1.31bn Anthropic settlement
Artificial intelligence giant settles copyright infringement case
Page turners: 10 books to help you fall back in love with reading
From space stations to 1960s LA, these stories will transport and delight any reader
‘World’s richest nations’ facilitating ‘undisguised genocide’ in Gaza, says Sally Rooney
Irish author tells Dublin event traditional forms of peaceful protest have not had meaningful impact on Israel’s actions
Singer-songwriter Loah: ‘I like praying. It puts you in a humble state, open to the goodness of people’
As Loah releases her debut album, the singer-songwriter talks about her multifaceted career, making rural west Cork her home and embracing her faith
Sally Rooney releasing Hebrew translation of latest novel with boycott-compliant publisher
Irish author speaks about regret at having once worked with publisher she later realised had ties to Israeli military
Retro riding: A history of sex on Irish TV, from The Late Late Show to Rivals
Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster is back on Disney+. Here’s how such shows have developed since TV introduced sex to Ireland in the 1960s
Frida Slattery as Herself, by Ana Kinsella: It’s easy to see why this debut excited editors
This is an effortless, elegant and impressive debut from a promising young writer
The performance of Irishness for outside approval is finished
Kneecap, Sally Rooney and the comedian Vittorio Angelone ask a question the State has avoided for years: what is all of this for, if not for us?
We must radically reduce dependence on the private car
Leaders must convey the harsh reality to the population
Sally Rooney: Fragility of global fuel systems strengthens the case for rationing
We cannot increase the amount of oil and gas available, but we can decide how to fairly distribute the supply
‘Second Irish literary renaissance’ documented in new book of interviews
‘Extraordinary testimony’ to Irish writing includes Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Sally Rooney and dozens more
Sweep the Cobwebs off the Sky by Mary O’Donnell: Another vital work from a quiet radical
A novel of doubleness, memory, and the uneasy inheritance of love
Born-again poet – Frank McNally on the confused centenary of Frank O’Hara
New Yorker had two ‘birthdays’, one of which was to spare his parents’ blushes
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