Sarah Webb

When Amy Cahill’s powerful and painful story My Mammy Lives in a Box was published in The Irish Times, “I had messages from people on Facebook, sendin(...)

It says something about President Michael D Higgins that he’s inspired not one but two successful picture books. Following the enormously popular The (...)

I’m not the best at conjuring up those golden moments of early parenting, those times in the midst of the madness, when you realised how very lucky yo(...)

When members of an autism support group saw that the Ombudsman for Children’s Office was advertising a free family event in Dublin in November, they t(...)

Here are the shortlisted entries for this year’s Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017. TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year The(...)

George Galloway, the former British Labour Party MP, one-time Celebrity Big Brother contestant, Saddam Hussein apologist and notorious cat imitator, h(...)

“I think this is one of the most beautiful places I ever saw,” said Cardinal Newman when he rented a house in Dalkey for a two-month holiday in Septem(...)

The Heart’s Invisible Furies is a very moving, often funny book about a gay man’s life across seven decades of Irish history. It made me cry, I tell (...)

Roddy Doyle I didn’t know Roald Dahl’s books when I was a child and I’ve never read his adult fiction. I started to read his children’s books when I(...)

Separate productions of The Lion King Junior have won two of the big prizes at the Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Awards. Scoil Réalt na Mara from(...)