‘When I moved here four years ago, I quickly felt Dublin was my spiritual home’
Four poets on how they take ‘home’ with them wherever they go
Anne Enright: How Sinéad Gleeson kicked my reluctant, sad, smouldering feminism
The Booker winner on Constellations, her fellow writer’s powerful, painful new book
Guardian’s modern Ireland book recommendations are ‘b*ll*cks’
Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland
Anne Enright: ‘There is so much mediocre work by men around’
Laureate of Irish Fiction highlights gender imbalance in publishing, theatre and book reviews
Let’s talk about sax: this week’s must-see jazz gigs
Richie Buckley is the boss of himself, and Seán Mac Erlaine is double-jobbing this week
Maeve Brennan podcast with her biographer Angela Bourke
Angela Bourke, author of Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker, and Irish Times writer Patrick Freyne discuss and read from her work
Fintan O’Toole on Maeve Brennan: No fairy tale ending
First published on January 1st, 1998, this essay helped revive interest in a once neglected but now highly-regarded Irish writer
Maeve Brennan: loneliness elevated to an art form
Eileen Battersby reviews The Long-Winded Lady, Maeve Brennan’s New Yorker sketches, as part of our extensive coverage marking today's centenary of her birth
Maeve Brennan: a centenary more bitter than sweet
Independent Ireland’s patriarchal culture, epitomised by the 1937 Constitution, marginalised strong women like Brennan, a discrimination that continues today
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Irish road to modernity has no straight lines
The collective works in our series show how molten and defiant Irish artworks can be
Maeve Brennan story: The Day We Got Our Own Back
In 1922, when she was five, unfriendly men with revolvers raided the Brennan family home in Ranelagh, Dublin, in search of Maeve’s father, who was on the run
Spinster: on the madness of being man-less
American singleton Kate Bolick proves that old maids are alive and well and selling trite books
In praise of Maeve Brennan, by Anne Enright
Celebrating Irish women writers: ‘The line between holding it together and falling apart is thinner here than anywhere else in Irish fiction’
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
Mountains to Sea DLR Book Festival: Our pick of the best
What to check out at the book festival this weekend in Dún Laoghaire
Brought to Book: Jane Casey on Donna Tartt, Maeve Brennan and avoiding the twist
‘If I love a book, I want to own a print version of it. My (huge) collection is like a physical manifestation of what furnishes my brain’
Radio: Money talk is taxing, but happy talk doesn’t come cheap
Sean O’Rourke still has a newsreadery tendency on his RTÉ show – but his colleague John Murray made a poignantly light return to the airwaves this week
Radio 1 opens first chapter of ‘The Book Show’
RTÉ is “cognisant” of online listenership, but makes programmes for FM audience
Patrick Pearse, Collected Plays/Drámaí an Phiarsaigh, edited by Róisín Ní Ghairbhí and Eugene McNulty
A new edition of the republican leader’s dramas casts a fresh light on him – and on the Revival
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