Mind-blowing: The National Gallery of Ireland’s Hilma af Klint exhibition is a revelation – The Irish Times
At the National Gallery of Ireland’s mind-blowing exhibition on the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, the first thing…
The life-changing work of Alice Maher, an artist to her bones – The Irish Times
A necklace of tongues and another of hearts, a tower of hair and a house of thorns: if…
Was WB Yeats a vampire? The proof is in the poetry · TheJournal.ie
Darach Ó Séaghdha Author and linguist In Calling 353, bestselling Motherfoclóir author and podcaster Darach Ó Séaghdha casts…
Author Bonnie Garmus: ‘I’ve gotten so many death threats. The Andrew Tate crowd is alive and well’ – The Irish Times
Eleven years ago, Bonnie Garmus almost drowned in a lake in Switzerland. She was swimming across Lake Zurich,…
Author Niall Williams: ‘I will always be an outsider, even here after 41 years’ – The Irish Times
The elegant first paragraph of Niall Williams’s latest book, O Now!, reminds me why my first child is…
Author Ellen Ryan: ‘Ireland is my muse. That’s where my conviction for writing comes from’ – The Irish Times
I was raised between Greystones in Wicklow and Dundrum in Dublin. I went to an all-girls’ school, the…
The five-decade love story of a forgotten Irish literary power couple – The Irish Times
The name of Padraic Colum may still be familiar to some, as the author of much-loved poems such…
Even Dublin’s seagulls took a moment to pause with the solar eclipse over the capital – The Irish Times
Temperatures dropped. Birds stopped singing. Even the seagulls of Dublin briefly suspended their missions to steal chips off…
‘Ireland means a lot to us in India with our own freedom struggle,’ Gandhi’s grandson says – The Irish Times
Gopalkrishna Gandhi is known as a writer, academic, diplomat and politician. But he is best known as the…
A new Wild Atlantic Way? How nine ‘literary routes’ could form a map of Irish writing – The Irish Times
What the Wild Atlantic Way has done for the west coast a new set of cultural routes could,…
‘Bez and I have had a sexless marriage for 32 years. I’m with him all the time’ – The Irish Times
One morning in January 1992, Shaun Ryder was leaving a crack den in Barbados when he was set…
The Plough and the Stars, 100 years on from its riotous first run – The Irish Times
The same week that Seán O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars opened at the Abbey Theatre in February…