Author Cathy Kelly: ‘I doubt there’s a writer alive who hasn’t used personal battles in their work’
If you’re absolutely full of fear and anxiety, sit down and find a pen/laptop, says seasoned novelist
TS Eliot
Poet
Haunted by Hamlet: The sad story of Ireland’s greatest Shakespearean scholar
When Belfast-born William John Lawrence died in penurious English exile at the start of the second World War, his manuscript on the origins of Hamlet was lost too
Bognor Bodies – Frank McNally on the Irish literary connections of an English seaside town
Its English origins stem from a holiday James Joyce and his family spent there in the summer of 1923
Adrian Dunbar on staging TS Eliot’s The Waste Land: ‘It’s the first major poem of the jazz age’
An intriguing combination of the Irish actor, the American poet and the composer Nick Roth is the headline event of EFG London Jazz Festival 2025
Ralph Fiennes at the Abbey Theatre: An electrifying, moving reading of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets
The likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024
Irish culture’s remarkable response to the political turmoil from 1891 to 1922
Irish art during the period both mirrored and shaped events in the political sphere
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Unlimited Love: Formulaic, bland, appalling
Tenth album from the Californian giants is about as welcome as nuclear endgame
The Irish Times view on Christmas 2021: inspiring the hopeless
Christmas story is one caused by priorities of those who had power to change
In a Word...misery
One of the great conundrums of theology is ‘the problem of suffering’. It will always be with us
Should Joyce be ‘cancelled’ for misogyny; Conrad for racism?
Do ideas embraced by some writers in the past mean we should stop reading them?
The Child: A great book inspired by the pram in the hall
Kjersti A Skomsvold’s compelling account of an artist’s journey to motherhood
Brexit deal marks only the start of complex talks
Range of new bodies to oversee implementation of the agreement
What You Could Have Won: plenty to applaud but easy to get lost
Genn is to be commended for choosing two such unlikable leads for her novel about a celebrity singer's toxic relationships
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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