Thu, 23 Apr, 2020
I’ve just landed my first acting role. On The Abbey stage.
Fri, 25 Oct, 2019
Dermot Bolger felt strange portraying himself in his latest novel but, he tells Sue Leonard, it was a necessary bridge into his second novel about the extraordinary Sheila Fitzgerald
Sat, 29 Sep, 2018
As the days get colder Niamh Hennessy looks at ways to prevent rodents making themselves at home in your house
Mon, 06 Nov, 2017
Alan O’Riordan reviews Ulysses and Tribes.
Sat, 07 Oct, 2017
THIS is such a boy’s own yarn about a seafaring adventure that it could be called Code of Honour or Men of Courage with that gusty and gutsy prose of ‘waves to the left of me, waves to the right’ but because this is a new Dermot Bolger novel it isn’t just guts and glory, there is an attentiveness to the emotional lives of all the men aboard.
Sat, 30 Jul, 2016
FINGLAS native and quintessential Dub, Dermot Bolger, has dedicated his life to literature in both a public and a private manner.
Sat, 21 Nov, 2015
Mon, 09 Nov, 2015
Dermot Bolger talks to Tony Clayton-Lea about his new book Tanglewood and how he believes that the introduction of free secondary education in the late 1960s was at the root of the 1980s burst of Irish creativity.
Sat, 16 May, 2015
2014 has been a remarkable year for Irish writing by any standards.
Wed, 10 Dec, 2014
The Arts Council has published the full list of nominees for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.
Mon, 20 Oct, 2014
There have been concerts, cover albums, books and films paying homage to his oeuvre and now an entire festival dedicated to the work of Leonard Cohen is coming to Ireland.
Wed, 06 Aug, 2014
Irish-based digital services agency Lucidity Digital is set to double its workforce in the next two years after re-branding as Isobar.
Sat, 19 Jul, 2014
The apparent impenetrability of Finnegans Wake ensures it is ignored by most readers. Alan O’Riordan meets a number of people hoping to address this neglect.
Fri, 02 May, 2014
More than three decades after winning her first Hennessy literary prize, writer Deirdre Madden has been inducted into the Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame.
Wed, 09 Apr, 2014
STANDING up, as she’s about to leave, Louise Phillips, author of the just-named Irish Crime Novel of the Year The Doll’s House may have cried as she told me about the dark place where her novels originate.
Mon, 09 Dec, 2013
Mary Murray tells Pádraic Killeen about Fishamble’s latest short form project
Tue, 19 Mar, 2013
It’s a case of the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker all pulling out the stops this week as their local village hosts one of the biggest amateur drama festivals in the country.
Mon, 04 Mar, 2013
The Greek Anthology Book XVII
Sat, 05 Jan, 2013
THIS year, James Joyce’s works came out of copyright.
Tue, 06 Nov, 2012
Irish Examiner sports writer Ewan MacKenna has been named as Sports Reporter of the Year at the annual National Newspapers of Ireland awards ceremony in Dublin yesterday.
Fri, 26 Oct, 2012
MUSIC NEWS: Cork music fans got some good news earlier in the week when it was announced that the Savoy will at last re-open on Oct 19.
Fri, 12 Oct, 2012
MUSIC NEWS: Thom Yorke of Radiohead has unveiled some tracks from his Atoms For Peace project during a DJ set in the US.
Fri, 14 Sep, 2012
A last word on Con Houlihan?
Sat, 11 Aug, 2012
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has led tributes to popular novelist Maeve Binchy, who has died at the age of 72.
Tue, 31 Jul, 2012
Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland project affords ordinary people the opportunity to speak their minds, writes Pádraic Killeen
Wed, 14 Mar, 2012
Sat, 18 Jun, 2011
ABOUT 3,000 book enthusiasts are set to descend on Ennis today for the fifth annual Ennis Book Club Festival.
Fri, 04 Mar, 2011
THE Very Merry Mice by Jack Tickle (Little Tiger; €10.66) is a sturdy book for toddlers. The playful mice are having fun during the lead-up to Christmas. Each spread features a surprise festive pop-up. Fun for little hands.
Sat, 11 Dec, 2010
THE CURTAIN came down on this year’s Electric Picnic early this morning after British trip hop legends Massive Attack were cheered off the stage after their 10.30pm gig.
Mon, 06 Sep, 2010
A WOMAN of words could have wanted no better send-off than Nuala O’Faolain received.
Wed, 14 May, 2008
A NUMBER of internationally renowned authors have been confirmed as participants in the Ennis Book Club Festival 2008, details of which were announced today.
Tue, 08 Jan, 2008
WRITER Sebastian Barry has won this year’s €10,000 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award for his novel A Long Long Way, it was announced at the opening of Listowel Writers’ Week yesterday evening.
Thu, 01 Jun, 2006
DOUBLE Booker Prize winner JM Coetzee will be among the literary luminaries attending Listowel Writers’ Week from May 31 to June 4 next.
Fri, 21 Apr, 2006
A decade of Irish writers will be honoured tonight with the launch of a major anthology in Dublin.
Mon, 07 Nov, 2005
Home-grown Irish talent will take centre stage at this year’s annual Dublin Writers Festival, it emerged tonight.
Mon, 16 May, 2005
The 2004 Hennessy New Irish Writer Award, in association with The Sunday Tribune and Four Seasons Hotel Dublin, was presented this evening to Newbridge teacher Terry Donnelly for his First Fiction short story 'Singing Dumb'.
Thu, 21 Apr, 2005
Oscar-winning film director Neil Jordan will tonight induct Butcher Boy author Pat McCabe into the 2004 Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame.
A series of nine specially-commissioned monologues to highlight the issue of Amnesty’s Stop Violence Against Women campaign will be performed next week in Dublin.
Wed, 23 Feb, 2005
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