Jane Austen

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Is cuimhin liom go raibh léachtóir leamh amháin agam adeireadh maidir le scríbhneoir ar bith, seo iad a chuid dátaí. Ní hé go raibh léachtóir leamh am(...)

In May 2016, as Shane Ross and his Independent Alliance played the high hand in government formation, disdaining and demanding like political bridezil(...)

On Wednesdays, classes in Coláiste Mhuire Mullingar in 1970 finished early but the school bus did not depart until 4.30pm. I spent the two hours in th(...)

Okay, readers, it’s time for the talk. Sometimes, when a mummy and a daddy and a former glamour model, a semi-professional footballer, a financial-ser(...)

Here’s a controversial proposal. Trust nobody who loves a book to give you a reliable assessment of any film or TV series based on that text. “They go(...)

One of the great Irish comedies, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal, was first performed in 1777. Its opening lines are spoken by Lady(...)

For the first few months of the first lockdown I was ghostwriting a memoir with Majella Moynihan, so I was quite insulated. My husband was doing all t(...)

It’s time to discover – or revisit – the films of Patricia Rozema. In an era when major studios are clamouring for more equitable representation, Roze(...)

While family lawyers report a rise in divorce applications, some people say their relationships have never been better At the start of the pande(...)