The author’s new novel centres on the relationship between a woman and an older man, and explores the themes of memory, time, love and loss - prompted by a series of events in her own life
Hungarian author, a critic of communism and Viktor Orbán alike, is devoted to art of writing
Sale also features artists including Paul Henry, Roderic O’Conor, Sir William Orpen and Mainie Jellett
Many Irish women writers have engaged with Joyce - both challenging and building on his legacy in their fiction. In studying them, I was also studying myself
For the Irish writer, watching the worst team in baseball was an entertaining and rewarding experience
Take a look at centuries of Irish revolutionaries and you’ll find links to Norman history
When we learn to shut down pity, we summon the pitiless to power
It’s often true that works of artists such as O’Neill become more valuable after their death
Unthinkable: Toxic positivity may be exacerbating a sense that we’re losing in life
Theatre: Sarah Jane Scaife’s vision builds on the work that Company SJ started in 2021 with Laethanta Sona/Happy Days
Author talks about his new memoir of addiction and recovery, and the best writing advice he’s heard
The writer on his new novel, Paradise House; his writing partnership with Karen Gillece; and the book he’s working on about Samuel Beckett in the French Resistance
All photographs: Tom Honan
Cooldrinagh House, famously known as the childhood home of Samuel Beckett’s mother, comes for sale
The novelist on her latest book, Wildelings; her penchant for unlikeable characters; and how her acting background is a boon to her writing
The extraordinary acting of Fouéré and her fellow principals is all the more remarkable for being unpolished, undirected and unrehearsed
Festival acquired letter playwright wrote to friend in 1958 to apologise for feeling compelled to cancel planned run of Act without Words I
In Krapp’s Last Tape, Richard Dormer and Samuel West will use recordings they made 30 years earlier, in line with Beckett’s vision
April 12th-18th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Faber’s new editions come with excellent introductions by Colm Tóibín, Claire-Louise Bennett and Eimear McBride
Mary Manning wrote her first play in 1931, when she was 26. It’s astonishing how modern it can feel, says the director of the Abbey’s new production
The Croí Glan choreographer explains why she believes in the power of dance to be an agent of change
Jenni Nikinmaa from Finland moved to Ireland in 2019
McBride’s style is distinctive, a wholly original exploration of what is possible with language and fiction
Closing story in this collection imagines an award acceptance speech which would ‘represent a summing up’
My introduction to art happened in my hometown of Athy, Co Kildare. It was an age of belief; religion dominated everyday thinking and behaviour
Claudia Winkleman’s smash reality show is an effective analogy for the Sisyphean pointlessness of existence. But the contestants can’t say that, obviously
Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-making
Killing Time by Alan Bennett; Anarchy and Authority: Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia by Angela Byrne; Bone Black by bell hooks
Gambling on longer runs of unfamiliar work paid off in a gratifying number of cases. But Irish theatre still isn’t as inclusive as it should be
The Bulgarian author on the dangers of nostalgia, his 2023 Booker-winning novel Time Shelter, and Irish writers he admires
New fiction and memoir by James Roseman, Tom MacDonagh and Seamus O’Rourke includes a book that deserves a place among the classics
The Oscar winner stars in The Room Next Door, a euthanasia drama that is Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature in English. It’s an ideal film for her to appear in
Thompson’s new book, The Forest Yet to Come, is part of the Wolfstongue saga, which began as a direct response to his son’s difficulty with speech
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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