Sebastian Barry

Celebrating the men and women flying flags for Ireland from Auckland to Rockland, Paris to Belgrade

Seen and heard: Reports of multimillion euro data centres for Drogheda and Arklow

Are Ireland’s wars truly over? For some people, there is still a hierarchy of victims

Donald Clarke: BBC’s ‘novels that shaped our world’ list is terrible in a very particular way

Derek O’Connor remembers the actor, who was a giant of Irish theatre

The daughter of boxer Barry McGuigan had been ill with cancer

Life Lessons: ‘Sebastian Barry told me that to improve as a writer, I must do it every day’

A passionate advocate for originality, he knew that theatre could be electrifying

Heartwarming tale of a starling, a hedgehog, a badger and the local election candidate

Demand for children’s literature has skyrocketed following success of likes of Colfer and Shan

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

Actor on Sebastian Barry’s ‘Days Without End’ and singing in jazz clubs in Nice

Bernard Loughlin ran artists’ retreat at Annaghmakerrig in Co Monaghan for 18 years

It’s hard not to be bamboozled by the choice on offer. Here’s a selection of the best bits

The astute, captivating story of expat life of an American woman in Brazil

Eyre Square to be transformed into a ‘festival garden’ with series of events lined up for city