Actor uses tribute event to talk publicly for first time about wife, who died of cancer

An Irishman’s Diary

Our middle years have had a makeover thanks to some excellent recent literature

Children’s books: from wood mice and red squirrels to beetles and termites, there’s plenty of nature in these new releases

Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list

This month sees Ireland’s national theatre playing in London, and its British equivalent coming to Dublin

London Letter: Praise as Mulhall moves from Brexit Britain to Trump’s America

His latest book contains 67 poems on such disparate topics as the weather forecast, the Syrian war, a visit to the GP, retail therapy, clampers and Seamus Heaney. There is sadness, illness, anger and trademark humour

The Hennessy Hall of Fame poet looks back on her childhood and the path that led her to ‘stand up for the word’

Word for Word

Jeremy Paxman is best known as the pugilistic presenter of ‘Newsnight’, but he pulls no punches in his new book on Britain during the first World War

Memorial service part of annual arts festival

He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’