I wanted to write a book about Irish women’s writing. They told me to include men
If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing
Emma Donoghue
Dublin Literary Award 2024: Solenoid, by Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu, wins €100,000 prize
Solenoid, published by Deep Vellum, is the first book translated from Romanian to win the award
The Pull of the Stars review: Sincere and sharply performed adaptation of Emma Donoghue novel
Play breaks little ground theatrically, but few will emerge unmoved or uninterested
Emma Donoghue: ‘With birth, it’s a real spin of the roulette wheel. Women’s lives have always been determined by this crapshoot’
The writer on her new stage adaptation of The Pull of the Stars, her novel set over three feverish days in the maternity ward of a Dublin hospital
Sebastian Barry and Emma Donoghue shortlisted for Dublin Literary Award 2024
Unusually varied list also includes Jonathan Escoffery’s debut, If I Survive You
Fourteen Days: Stories about pandemic shut-ins in New York from Margaret Atwood, John Grisham, Celeste Ng, Scott Turow and Emma Donoghue
Big names such as Margaret Atwood, John Grisham, Celeste Ng, Scott Turow and Emma Donoghue contribute
Gate Theatre unveils 2024 season, including world premiere of Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars
New community engagement programme to make the theatre ‘a more civic, open and democratic space’
Broadway cast laid off as Emma Donoghue’s Room ‘postponed indefinitely’
Actors were two weeks into rehearsals when the show, which was set to star the Tony-winning actor Adrienne Warren, was halted
Does the Irishness of a film matter? No, except when it does
Hugh Linehan: There was a time when debates about authentic Irishness had more of an edge
The Irish Times books of the year: Best fiction of 2022
Niamh Donnelly selects her favourite 16 novels and short-story collections from the past 12 months
Normal People producers Element Pictures returns to profit
Dublin-founded company sold a majority stake to global production and distribution giant Freemantle
Conversations with Friends: How we made the new Sally Rooney TV drama
Director Lenny Abrahamson and cast talk about adapting the author’s debut novel
Private treasures of Betty Ann Norton to be auctioned
Drama teacher was an avid collector, and sale includes jewellery, clothing and furniture
Bewilderment by Richard Powers: A call to arms for empathy and action
Book review: Booker shortlisted novel is a damning assessment of the state of the world
Something New Under the Sun: part eco-horror story, part Californian noir
Review: Alexandra Kleeman chills with an original, acerbic novel about a near-future apocalypse
Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder marks new chapter for Netflix in Ireland
Adaptation of Irish writer's novel is first film to be green-lit out of new London office
Over 40 complaints made about ‘unsuitable’ books on English curriculum
Complaints to department from parents, though some students defend novels
New queer literature anthologies show the work done and the work yet to do
Book reviews: Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing and Queer Love are cause for celebration
Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can
Fintan O’Toole: The newly visible dads, and an ordinary and wonderful kind of love
Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown
Theatre-training legend Betty Ann Norton dies in Dublin
Co-director of the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School helped to launch many acting careers
Emma Donoghue: The lockdown lessons I learned from writing Room
The author’s bestselling novel of confinement has new resonance during coronavirus
‘Mum would put a plate of food in front of me and I would cry my eyes out’
Along with the chronic physical illnesses of diabetes and fibromyalgia, Emma Donoghue (26) has had postnatal depression and anorexia to contend with. But life is slowly getting better
Matt Cooper bores through Brexit to seek fresh subjects
Today FM host acknowledges jaded public mood, while Jennifer Zamparelli reveals a gritty side of Irish life
Vagabones review: Irish witchcraft meets Irish opera
Raymond Deane’s Vagabones dramatises one of the few witch trials to have ever taken place in Ireland
This week’s best classical music gigs
Yuga Wang makes her Irish debut, and Vagabones gets its first Irish airing
Breda O'Brien: The pain of the Leaving Cert should be spread out over two years
As a teacher, I have always known how tough the exams are. Reform is overdue
Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I was offered some very high-profile prestige movies’
The Dubliner on the exhausting success of Room, anti-Semitism and his ghostly The Little Stranger
‘Heartbroken’ arts festivals and shows count cost of snow
The ‘significant’ financial burden will have implications beyond cancelled events
My Absolute Darling: A compelling debut about horribly tainted love
A remarkable California teen comes to a realisation about her predatory father
Emma Donoghue: ‘When I have an idea, I hurl myself at it’
The ‘Room’ author on making a musical version of her all-conquering book for the stage
10 great books by Irish women
In the final part of our series on influential books by women writers, we focus on Irish authors
People of 2016: Oscar winner Ben Cleary. ‘Everything is changing’
How does life change for a film-maker who now has that gold man on the shelf?
Saintly designs: How Knock became a shrine to statues
‘Strange Occurrences in a Small Irish Village’ shows the power of religious iconography
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