Rise of Ireland’s far right relies on abandoned social conservatives
Nativist politics have not played a big role in recent Irish elections. Might that change?
The Iron Age review: steely portrait of postwar Finland
Arja Kajermo uses fable and charming illustrations to bring a family’s struggles to life
Ríona Judge McCormack wins Hennessy New Irish Writer award
Chris Connolly wins Emerging Fiction prize, Jane Clarke wins Emerging Poetry award and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne inducted into Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame
Signatories review: an imagined truth about key figures in the Rising
Eight Irish writers’ monologues create a moving theatrical tapestry
Irish writers commemorate Proclamation signatories
Theatre project will mark Rising centenary with production in Kilmainham Gaol
Merkel’s Decade: A new Germany dances to a lighter rhythm
Blonde Barbarella Helene Fischer is the undisputed golden girl of German language pop
Anne Enright: How the world reads Irish writers
The newly appointed Laureate for Irish Fiction considers the reach of Irish books abroad – and what gets lost in translation
New Irish Writing comes to ‘The Irish Times’
The page founded by David Marcus, which launched the careers of many of our best known writers, has found a new home
‘Culture can provide home away from home for Irish in London’
First in new discussion series hosted by an Irish journalist in London will feature public interview with historian Roy Foster
The L factor: a literary ambassador for Ireland
Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction
Review: The Mariner
Hugo Hamilton’s nuanced first World War drama looks at the family fallout after the return of an injured sailor
What’s on around Ireland this weekend
Galway Oyster Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival and New Ross Piano Festival
Dublin Theatre Festival to stage work stretching from the epic to the intimate
Programme divides evenly between Irish and international work
What to read on holiday in the US, France and Germany
In the first of a series, we recommend some destination-specific titles for summer trips abroad, with help from our correspondents
Impac winner Jon McGregor is big draw on European Literature Night
MacGill Summer School and West Cork Literary Festival news
Poetry of Rita Ann Higgins on Cúirt literary trail in Galway
Booker prize winning author among participants in week-long event
A novel approach to Nuala
Hugo Hamilton’s new book travels into strange and slightly spooky literary territory. It’s a fictionalised account of a trip to Berlin that he made with his fellow writer Nuala O’Faolain just before her death, from cancer, in May 2008
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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