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Skylarks stunned me, just like the poets the bird has hoisted into verse

Another Life: Michael Viney on his awe for a key voice in ‘Dawn Chorus 2018’

Rare De Vesci original for €2.4m could tell a story or two

Monkstown home of former Irish Times editor Conor Brady, where he now writes his crime series

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Donald Clarke: Oscar-winner will likely honour commitment to silence on the matter

Prolific writer who blossomed late in life

Endurance is all: a letter from Elizabeth Jane Howard

Once, while trying to heal a cruel wound, I wrote to Howard. The reply came as a shock