Iris Murdoch centenary marked with stamp and plaque

‘Even at the end of her life when she had Alzheimer’s, she remembered she was from Ireland’

Home Front: Make your own Adirondack chair

Bring upstate New York summer to your garden with a homemade sun chair

Stephen James Smith: On My Culture Radar

The poet and playwright on ‘The Young Offenders’, Ruth Negga and Galway

Best art exhibitions this week

Diarmuid Delargy photos, illustrators, Arctic art, images of past and dystopian otherness

Offset 2015: what we learned

Featuring Tomi Ungerer, Forsman & Bodenfors, Snask, Niels Shoe Meulman, Veronica Ditting and Ian Anderson of the Designers Republic, last weekend’s creative convention in Dublin hosted designers and innovators from around the world. There was a lot to absorb

Loved up? Love Dublin

Mountains to Sea DLR Book Festival: Our pick of the best

What to check out at the book festival this weekend in Dún Laoghaire

The F word: Failure is theme of this weekend’s Children’s Books Ireland conference

Eoin Colfer, the new Laureate na nOg, to give his first public address