Going to My Father’s House: Deeply personal story by a pioneering historian

Review: Patrick Joyce’s memoir offers an authentic and urgent examination

One for the archives – An Irishwoman’s Diary on literary records

Do we really need an exhibition of women’s art? Yes

The Elliptical Affinities exhibition at the Highlanes Gallery gives us a peek at what a differently-centred world might look like

Why dads cannot be afraid of spiders

How did I go from wanting desperately to own a massive spider to being crippled by fear at the mere sight of them?

Jim Savage obituary: A generous and passionate artist and educator

The Manchester-born drawing specialist had a major impact on the Irish artistic landscape

Student diary: ‘Eavan Boland – thankfully – came up. Others who staked it all on Plath lost’

Two days into the exam, Lauren Conway is getting into her study groove

Sci-fi TV asks the big question: what is it to be human?

Television dramas explore the blurring boundaries between humanity and technology

Irish Hygge: 'Look what good taste I have, look how Instagrammable my house is'

Irish Tribes Today: part two in our series looks at how the Danish concept of hygge is the latest method of marketing our happiness, and explores how difficult it is to express unhappiness in our modern culture

Has the age of instant access finally put an end to the critic?

The great art critic John Berger died this week - he may have been the last of his kind

John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90

Booker prize-winning author of G and Ways of Seeing had been living in Paris

What happens to perspective when theatre adopts a first-person narrative?

Consider Friel’s plays and you realise what happens on stage can be acutely subjective

What is the point of the European Capital of Culture?

Galway, Limerick and the trio of Wexford, Waterford and Kilkenny are working on their final bids for 2020. But is it worth the mammoth effort?

Successful publisher and left-wing campaigner

Neil Middleton: December 8th, 1931 - November 20th, 2015

Alex Miller: ‘Simple prose is valued more now than a decade ago’

‘Brought to Book’ Q&A: Australian author of Coal Creek and The Ancestor Game on the books that have inspired him