Robert Harris

The best crime fiction of 2024: Robert Harris, Jane Casey, Joe Thomas, Kellye Garrett, Stuart Neville and many more

Declan Burke, Elizabeth Mannion and Brian Cliff round up their favourite crime novels of the year

Wed Dec 18 2024 - 04:08

Conclave: Ralph Fiennes is flawless in Robert Harris’s preposterously gripping drama of papal electioneering

This heavily plotted adaptation moves at a dizzying clatter as revelation upends revelation

Thu Nov 28 2024 - 05:00

The right must stop treating ‘appeasement’ as the root of all evil

US Politics: A misreading of history has led to a botched US policy on Iran and has bolstered Brexit

Wed Dec 22 2021 - 17:14

ClassicsNow festival set to bring ancient Greece and Rome to life

Theatre, dance and literature events can all be enjoyed online

Tue Nov 10 2020 - 05:00

Why do we keep asking artists what they think of Brexit?

The notion of ‘culture’ has been complicated and diluted by its co-option for so many uses

Sat Sept 07 2019 - 05:00

British in west Cork fearful about what Brexit deal – or no deal – will bring

Travel, border controls and pension rights are becoming a real worry

Sat Nov 24 2018 - 17:00

Exhibit A – An Irishwoman’s Diary on the Ballydehob Museum of Treasures

Mon Apr 16 2018 - 00:01

Big question of the Tory conference: where are the youth?

The average age of party members is 72, and the conference felt like a large funeral

Fri Oct 06 2017 - 01:00

'Britain has a sense of moral superiority most other countries don't feel'

In ‘Munich’, Robert Harris exorcises a lifelong obsession by challenging the British myths he grew up with about the second World War

Thu Oct 05 2017 - 05:00

Obsession with World War played role in Brexit, says Harris

Robert Harris, author of ‘Fatherland’, returns to the Inside Politics podcast

Fri Sept 29 2017 - 17:59

Dublin Festival of History: JFK, Harry Potter and Nicholas II up for discussion

UK’s Chris Patten, novelist Robert Harris and war correspondent Martin Bell to attend

Mon Sept 04 2017 - 15:45

Brexit vote should have required 55%, says author Harris

Best selling author believes democratic institutions are under pressure from ‘unbridled populism’

Wed Oct 05 2016 - 13:15

Wild Geese: On the crest of a wave in Portugal

Within a year of skippering a boat for the summer Robert Harris had set up Algarve Yacht

Fri Sept 09 2016 - 06:00

Robert Harris lets go of the toga after three volumes of Cicero’s Rome

The 10-million-selling author is happy to be toga-free and exploring new empires after spending 12 years writing his ancient Roman trilogy

Mon Nov 09 2015 - 01:00

Is your connected car invading your privacy?

Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto are just two of the ways that our vehicles are generating information – data that could be worth billions. Major concerns remain around what data is collected, for what purpose and who gets access to it

Wed Jul 29 2015 - 01:00

From tragedy to pop-culture punchline

Reinventing Kennedy to suit books, TV and film has blurred his significance

Fri Nov 22 2013 - 01:00

Bad lands: Fahrenheit 451 and other fiery dystopias

Ray Bradbury’s great dystopian vision is 60. Thankfully the book-burning world it depicts has not yet come to pass, so we can still read it and other dark visions

Mon Oct 21 2013 - 01:00

Robert Harris: ‘That’s what I most enjoy – to take something real and bring it alive’

No novelist would dare dream up the Dreyfus affair, the spy scandal that engulfed France, but the author of ‘Fatherland’, ‘Enigma’ and ‘Ghost’ effectively tells its story in his new book, ‘An Officer and a Spy’

Sat Oct 12 2013 - 01:00