Liam O Flaherty

In September 1931, novelist Liam O’Flaherty wrote to his agent AD Peters from his native Aran Islands: “All the material I have dug up here I am incor(...)

At this moment, exploring the Irish landscape seems like the most compelling of endeavours. Sitting on a sun-kissed ferry carving silver spraylets fro(...)

Ceremonies have been held to remember a police constable who was Galway’s only fatality in the 1916 Rising. “Surrender, boys, I know ye all,” is what(...)

Even the doziest domestic observer will have noticed that Irish cinema is passing through an unprecedented period of fecundity. Others are blowing ou(...)

In June 1915 WB Yeats wrote to his American friend and patron John Quinn about the Great War then raging across Europe. It was, he said, “merely th(...)

An original stained-glass artwork by Harry Clarke, rejected by the Irish government in 1930 as too scandalous, has gone on display at Dublin’s Hugh La(...)

If you write in a less well- known language, such as Irish, Finnish or Greek, the essential vehicles for reaching a wider readership are a reliable(...)

The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka (1915) Gregor Samsa’s unusual transformation from human to giant bug didn’t go down well with the Fascists and was ba(...)

At the risk of disillusioning Mary O’Dowd (Letters, Wednesday), it must be said that women were neither as invisible during the first World War as the(...)

Aran Island writer Liam O’Flaherty’s film script career in Los Angeles and the US intelligence service’s relationship with his brother Tom will be exp(...)