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…
‘He never seemed old to me… he was quite adventurous’ – The Irish Times
I am on a phone call to playwright Seán O’Casey’s youngest and only surviving child. Shivaun O’Casey lives…