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Sun, 29 Mar, 2020
This week, as the media talks about mental health, as big institutions make sure the topic is broached, why not try broaching it yourself in some small, gentle way, and see how your life is improved by this one step, writes Joyce Fegan
Sat, 05 Oct, 2019
My uncle married my aunt-in-law when I was very young. I was six and a half. The half is important when you’re that age.
Fri, 30 Aug, 2019
Like a lot of podcast genres — and browsing a bookshop — when it comes to book shows, it’s about finding what suits you.
Mon, 05 Aug, 2019
Des O'Driscoll shares the latest from the entertainment world
Thu, 18 Apr, 2019
Des O'Driscoll has you covered on things to do this week.
Sun, 14 Apr, 2019
There is a misunderstanding that actors want to be famous, says Clelia Murphy, who stars in the stage adaptation of Light a Penny Candle, Maeve Binchy’s first novel, published in 1982.
Thu, 04 Apr, 2019
Here's your morning bulletin.
Mon, 01 Oct, 2018
Ahead of ECHOES, a three-day event at Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre (October 5-7) to celebrate the work of Maeve Binchy and other Irish writers, Helen O’Callaghan asks six authors about their favourite Binchy book and her influence.
Young women stand up and fight — that is the rousing cry of barrister and owner of Lissadell House, Constance Cassidy.
Thu, 12 Apr, 2018
Despite subject matter that includes cancer and alcoholism, this stage adaptation will leave you smiling, writes Colette Sheridan
Mon, 29 May, 2017
Sat, 18 Mar, 2017
Mon, 26 Dec, 2016
Daniel Binchy, Ireland’s ambassador to the Weimer Republic, once described Adolf Hitler as a ‘harmless lunatic’ but one of the country’s most perceptive and insightful intellectuals was not fooled for long, as Ryle Dwyer notes.
Sat, 04 Jun, 2016
A former tánaiste says she believes it is very damaging for Ireland’s international reputation that we haven’t succeeded in forming another government.
Mon, 18 Apr, 2016
An oasis of peace on a Greek island proved the perfect environment for Claire Droney to practice her writing skills tutored by a Man Booker author.
Sat, 02 Jan, 2016
THERE’S a journalist in Elizabeth Day’s new novel.
Sat, 12 Sep, 2015
A Delicate Wildness: The Life and Loves of David Thomson 1914-1988
Sat, 17 Jan, 2015
Readers here had austerity on their minds last year with Strumpet City the most borrowed book of adult fiction from public libraries, figures show.
Thu, 11 Dec, 2014
Thu, 04 Dec, 2014
The Pepperstack Bistro at Rosie’s Bar in Lower Aghada, Co Cork is a bistro like Paul O’Connell is a rugby player, like Graham Norton is an entertainer.
Sat, 15 Nov, 2014
THE Sound of Things Falling by Colombian author, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated from Spanish by Canadian Anne McLean, is the winner of the 2014 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award and €100,000 — but how do awards affect the winners — and the losers? Do they really matter?
Wed, 18 Jun, 2014
CLAUDIA CARROLL is a born storyteller, whether on stage or screen, as a novelist or in person with anecdotes of pals’ romantic entanglements and stories of love gone awry.
Sun, 11 May, 2014
IT STRUCK a sensitive nerve when the poet WJ Mc Cormack, aka Hugh Maxton, this week defended Aosdána’s annual funding of €2.7 million by mentioning that Fair City cost €11 million. This fact was met, according to an RTÉ report, with laughter from the floor of Aosdána’s general assembly meeting at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham.
Thu, 01 May, 2014
From religious tomes to best-selling novels and personal faves, Mark Evans wants you to get voting.
Tue, 29 Apr, 2014
Author Maeve Binchy left a third of her multi-million fortune to charities, friends and a golf club, it has been revealed.
Sun, 23 Mar, 2014
Joanne Harris
Sun, 23 Feb, 2014
The shortlists for “the biggest celebration of Irish writing” was announced yesterday.
Fri, 01 Nov, 2013
I love to travel and discovered many years ago that each journey I took was a story in itself.
Wed, 18 Sep, 2013
Award-winning TV chef Neven Maguire will rustle up some delicious delights in Cork this week to help launch a fundraising cookbook featuring the favourite recipes of an array of Irish celebrities.
Mon, 09 Sep, 2013
I absolutely believe that books will set you free.
Sun, 30 Jun, 2013
Sue Leonard talks about men, marriage and missed chances with romance writer Roisin Meaney, who’s still hoping to meet The One
Mon, 03 Jun, 2013
Living the country life, Miranda Manning wasn’t really a reader until her twenties. She worked in HR; in a state body, then a secondary college, and finally in a factory.
Sat, 18 May, 2013
Two of Ireland’s top street artists have immortalised great Irish writers in graffiti on a theatre wall.
Wed, 01 May, 2013
Some leading female media figures have been lined up to take part in a new festival which will celebrate women’s contribution to the media in Ireland.
Mon, 01 Apr, 2013
Mary Murray tells Pádraic Killeen about Fishamble’s latest short form project
Tue, 19 Mar, 2013
Bumper sales of books by Marian Keyes, the late Maeve Binchy, Emma Donoghue and chef Jamie Oliver helped propel the Irish arm of booksellerWaterstone’s back to an operating profit last year.
Sat, 16 Feb, 2013
IT’S the fields of waving wildflowers that are puzzling.
Mon, 04 Feb, 2013
As his maverick Edinburgh detective Rebus returns after a five-year absence, best-selling author Ian Rankin tells Hannah Stephenson why he’s frustrated by the TV adaptations of his books — and that he never watches them.
Sat, 12 Jan, 2013
Almost half a million Irish bookworms — mostly women — spent more than €3m on the erotic Fifty Shades trilogy last year.
Tue, 08 Jan, 2013
The late Maeve Binchy was the highest earning Irish author last year, according to the latest Nielsen figures.
Fri, 04 Jan, 2013
July
Mon, 31 Dec, 2012
ANOTHER year, another notch tightened on the belt. So what did we learn in 2012?
Sat, 29 Dec, 2012
Ireland’s top writers moved from the page to the stage in style to accept prizes at the 2012 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards at the RDS.
Fri, 23 Nov, 2012
MASS MARKETFICTION
Sat, 17 Nov, 2012
It has emerged that one of author Maeve Binchy's final acts was to write a recipe for an upcoming charity book.
Wed, 05 Sep, 2012
It was probably best-selling author Maeve Binchy’s last act of charity.
Maeve Binchy's final book is to be published later this year and is expected to top the Christmas best sellers list.
Wed, 22 Aug, 2012
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