Twelve of my favourite Irish books for children
Sara Keating recommends titles by Irish authors that offer home-grown alternatives to international works
Eoin Colfer
Guaranteed Irish: New campaign looks to promote homegrown children’s writers and books for kids in Ireland
To mid-August of this year, of 1,000 books for children and young adults being sold in Ireland excluding educational material, only 141 were from Irish authors and illustrators. None were in the top 30
Eoin Colfer: ‘It’s like the Trojan horse. You are wrapping true stories in a cracking adventure package’
Global, the Artemis Fowl author’s new collaboration, is designed to empower and inform young readers about climate change
Belfast’s waning Oscar prospects: The film could go home with not a single award
In ‘the curse of the early favourite’, Kenneth Branagh’s film has lots of nominations but few wins
New schools ‘struggling’ to fill libraries due to cut in books grant
Campaign launched to reinstate primary school library fund abolished 15 years ago
Irish author and playwright Lee Dunne dies aged 86
Dubliner’s memoir of his early life, Goodbye to the Hill, was an instant bestseller
If you build it, they will come: creating a new online children’s book festival
Award-winning children’s writer Sarah Webb explains the how and why of WonderFest
Four new films to stream this weekend
Da 5 Bloods, The King of Staten Island, Virus Tropical, Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl review: Eoin Colfer’s book has been paddywhacked
Much diddly-eye ballyhoo apparently adapted from a tea towel makes it through the fug
Great reads: 20 books to unwind with this summer
From established talent to rising stars, here is our reading guide for the months ahead
Missed milestone: How will schools mark their pupils’ final days?
Schools are planning virtual graduation celebrations for their sixth class students
Covid-19: Calls to let sixth class students say their goodbyes
Celebrities join campaign to send messages to pupils missing out on the end of primary school
Coronavirus will be cinema’s biggest villain for some time yet
More films will be sent straight to streaming as struggling exhibitors go fully dark
Sales of houses and apartments fall 4% overall
Main growth areas are counties within commuting distance of Dublin
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
A new Star Wars trilogy isn’t far, far away
Disney shares its eight-year film schedule: Artemis Fowl lands next year, Avatar 2 in 2021
Kenneth Branagh: ‘The life of an actor? Strange men phone and offer you money’
The actor and director talks Shakespeare ‘trutherism’ and his working-class upbringing
50 people to watch in 2019: Ireland’s hottest young talent
Our tips in fashion, food, sport, activism, art, film, entrepreneurism, tech, media and music
Irish children’s books enjoying a new ‘golden age’
Demand for children’s literature has skyrocketed following success of likes of Colfer and Shan
Eoin Colfer’s Wexford farmhouse drops 24%
Bestselling author’s lavishly renovated Ballymorris House down from €1.65m to €1.25m
Guardian’s modern Ireland book recommendations are ‘b*ll*cks’
Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland
High Theatre: the critic’s choice of works
Michael West’s Frankenstein adaption and a Wexford man without promise of a future
‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’: 40 years on
Douglas Adams’s novel is still a hilarious map to life’s terrain
Eoin Colfer’s Wexford farmhouse home for €1.65m
Bestselling author turned a modest country house into an exceptionally finished home
One hundred children make an Irish thriller
Roddy Doyle and children’s laureate PJ Lynch launch book written and illustrated in Fighting Words workshops
Late Late Show ‘incited hatred’ towards cyclists, claims group
Cycling campaigners lodge ‘serious complaint’ with RTÉ over segment on show
Shortlists announced for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017
Among the nominees are Ryan Tubridy, Cecelia Ahern, John Banville, Molly McCloskey, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
Talking statues: Gabriel Byrne and Brenda Fricker bring Dublin landmarks to life
A slew of famous voices are bringing 10 of Dublin’s best-known monuments alive
New fund to provide libraries for Irish schools
Memorial fund is named after children’s literature champion Robert Dunbar
Christmas story brings Wexford tenor back home from US
Q&A with Michael Londra: ‘When I left, it wasn’t to run away but to run toward something’
Great family days out over Christmas and New Year
No need to stay cooped up this holiday season – gift yourself some great days out instead
‘Three Sisters’ bid for southeast to be cultural capital in 2020
Waterford, Kilkenny and Wexford join to bid for €170m-funded European capital of culture
Dave Rudden: ‘I tell kids darkness can be beaten’
Dealing with self-harm, mental health and ideas of bravery, Rudden’s first book for children, ‘Knights of the Borrowed Dark’, explores difficulties he himself has faced
Radio: Pundits fall flat as politicians shatter on Sean Moncrieff
Review: Today with Seán O’Rourke; The Last Word; The Anton Savage Show; Moncrieff; Rising Time
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