A life in stone: Sculptor Imogen Stuart reflects on her life and her work
‘I never know how things are going to turn out until they are finished’, says 94-year-old artist
How to talk Tyrone: They’re not people-pleasers, but I love their bluntness
Tyrone folk can bend words to a different meaning, with confusing results for outsiders
Poetic Parishes – Frank McNally on a new book about Baggotonia and the new Kavanagh museum in Inniskeen
An Irishman’s Diary
Anxiety, fear and dread are unwanted bedfellows
It’s important to develop coping mechanisms when afflicted by unwelcome thoughts
GAA always keenly aware of the big picture regarding its games
The presentation of Gaelic games from short films in the US to TV deals of the modern day
Fifty Shades of Sabbath Day – Frank McNally on a half century of RTÉ’s ‘Sunday Miscellany’
An Irishman’s Diary
Sinn Féin exploits Brexit worries to keep united Ireland centre stage
Stephen Collins: Coming weeks will show if party has shifted strategy on North
Eileen Battersby on Friel: ‘Astonishing, a privilege’
‘Our world is better for having had Brian Friel in it and now seems a lot smaller’
Proxopera by Benedict Kiely: ‘the most humane literary response to the Troubles’
‘You sense Kiely’s outrage that a history expressed in folk culture, music and mythology, was being enlisted, and tainted, by the men of violence’
Edna O’Brien: informed by Chekhov, inspired by vulnerability
This masterful writer’s rural-Ireland background invariably emerges from her sophisticated portraits of female sensibility
When Ireland woke up
Kennedy’s visit lifted us out of our suspicion of those who had been away. He seemed to drive away images of lonely figures leaving with a single suitcase
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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