Celebrating 10 years of Fighting Words student storytelling: ‘Not for a minute have they ceased to amaze’
Glenn Patterson is founding patron of Fighting Words NI and director of the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast
Roddy Doyle
‘There’s a spark in Fighting Words that ignites the minute you come through the door’
From early school leaver to author: Djamel White’s life was changed forever when Roddy Doyle’s creative writing organisation gave him encouragement
Cúirt literature festival at 40: ‘There is a sense of an Irish writing culture exploding around the world’
When I was an impoverished student sustained by Pot Noodles, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature introduced me to literature I would not have encountered otherwise
‘The city is always changing but this is the Dublin of now’: Declan Meade on capturing the capital in words and prose
Dublin, Written in Our Hearts, which marks 20 years of One Dublin, One Book, features Anne Enright, Roddy Doyle, Belinda McKeon, Paula Meehan and Kevin Barry
The Guide: Moonlight – The Philip Lynott Enigma, Gabrielle, The Book of Mormon and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
March 29th-April 4th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Jennifer Johnston obituary: Writer who combined brevity with razor-sharp wisdom
While Johnston was initially associated with the Big House literary tradition, she was above all a minutely observant chronicler of family dysfunction in Ireland
The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst: An interesting and unusual book told from a 12-year-old’s perspective
The author approaches the subject with skill and sensitivity
Read this and weep: Books that made writers cry
John Boyne, Edel Coffey, Ferdia Lennon, Sarah Gilmartin and a dozen other authors and critics on books that had a profound emotional effect on them
Roddy Doyle to chair 2025 Booker Prize judging panel alongside Sarah Jessica Parker
Novelists Ayobami Adebayo and Kiley Reid join critic Chris Power to decide prestigious prizewinner
‘Dreadful government, lack of nightlife, lack of cultural spaces’: Dublin writer Thommas Kane Byrne on his home city
What’s Next For?: TKB, whose new play, It’s Always Your Bleedin’ Own, completes his St Mary’s Mansions trilogy, on the evolution of Ireland’s capital
Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Development and diversity – Deserving of a wide readership
This comprehensive and wonderfully written book serves to remind us of how much outstanding Irish theatre has been produced in the past quarter-century
David Marcus, The Irish Times and a golden age of literary journalism
Even at a time of much cross-fertilisation between the literary and journalistic worlds, it was a brave and radical idea to run a regular creative-writing page in a daily newspaper. In pursuing this, David Marcus nurtured many young talents
The Guide: The Corrs, Dublin Book Festival, Cork film festival and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
November 2nd-8th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Irish Book Awards 2024 shortlist: Sally Rooney, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, David McWilliams and more
Winners of the 19th year of the An Post book awards will be announced at a ceremony in December
RTÉ's Oliver Callan ‘insults everybody equally’ as his rapid-fire jokes fall flat
Radio: RTÉ Radio 1 host sounds like neither the satirical impressionist he is nor the chatshow host he has become. Instead he resembles a stand-up comic flailing around for quick laughs
The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle: Paula Spencer gets to the dark heart of an Ireland that hides behind jokes
Misogyny is an insidious virus running through Doyle’s latest Paula Spencer novel, as the Covid pandemic frames the plot
Roddy Doyle: ‘I feel quite good about living in Ireland. But I think we were probably a bit smug’
The author reflects on returning to Paula Spencer for his 13th novel, intergenerational trauma, and anti-immigration sentiment in Ireland
Bosco, a millennium milk bottle and marriage equality badges as the Dart celebrates 40th birthday
Latest iteration of the world’s first commuter railway set to be transformed by new fleet
An American on the Irish sense of humour: ‘I’m very literal ... I thought everybody hated me’
Actor Tierra Porter came to Ireland in 2019 from Georgia, in the US. Her expectations were wildly different from the reality of living in Dublin
A Greyhound of a Girl: Terrific Irish ensemble enlivens charming tale that makes weighty themes feel feather-light
Animation of Roddy Doyle’s children’s book of same name leans into writer’s reliable ear for the vernacular
Roddy Doyle: The hate mail and death threats started in the spring of 1994
Some 30 years after Family aired on RTÉ, Ireland has changed in many ways but domestic violence is still an ugly truth
David Nicholls: ‘I’m lucky enough to have lots of Irish friends and hope that I got away with writing an Irish character’
The author of One Day on his new novel, You Are Here; the Irish writers he admires; and father-son relationships
‘In Trinidad we always get on well with Irish people, we both love storytelling’
Ingrid Persaud on the real-life bogeyman of her new novel, coming late to writing and Trinidad’s affinity with Ireland
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon: one of the most original debuts of the year
Madcap enthusiasm of author’s writing will win over many readers
Fiction to look out for in 2024: Returning favourites, a fearsome degenerate, and Ireland’s trailblazing all-woman rock band
New novels by Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín and Marian Keyes are among the works in the pipeline, along with eagerly anticipated debuts by Ferdia Lennon and Scott McKendry
The Giggler Treatment review: A glorious miniature musical that’s great fun for children and adults alike
Theatre: Roddy Doyle’s tale gets a fitting stage adaptation from Fionn Foley – and splendid cast have a blast making it sing
From the Gate to Glór: 35 pantos and other Christmas shows around Ireland for the 2023 festive season
The Gaiety’s 150th pantoversary, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and a new version of Peter Pan by Roddy Doyle are among this winter’s festive highlights
Fionn Foley on adapting Roddy Doyle’s The Giggler Treatment: ‘I did what no person would ever advise you to do’
The writer took a gamble when he went ahead with neither a commission nor interest from a theatre. Now it’s the Ark’s Christmas production
Which of the three Pauls nominated for the Booker prize will win? There’s only one Paul for me
It’s a nailbiting time for readers. Five Irish authors have won the Booker since it began in 1969
Peter Pan review: Fantastic family fun as Roddy Doyle revitalises the tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up
Theatre: The Gate’s fast-paced Christmas show, relocated to early 20th-century Dublin, will entertain parents as well as children
Gate Theatre delays Peter Pan opening night
Roddy Doyle’s new version of Peter Pan postponed because of ‘intricate and technical nature’ of show, says Dublin theatre
‘It’s radically different’: Behind the scenes of Roddy Doyle’s Dublin Peter Pan
The author of The Snapper and The Van has set his new version of JM Barrie’s classic story in Ireland
‘Beacon for change’: The Gate Theatre announces new leadership team
Róisín McBrinn takes over as artistic director and Colm O’Callaghan as executive director
Housing crisis is a ‘shaming thing’, Roddy Doyle tells Citizens’ Assembly
Group asked to consider and report to Oireachtas on new local government structures for Dublin
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