Censorship in Ireland, which was largely overturned 50 years ago, meant the public couldn’t easily get their eyes on work by our best writers, making it a badge of honour, says Donal Ó Drisceoil.

The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story

One of Ireland’s finest playwrights, Brian Friel, is to be presented with a major award by President Mary McAleese today in an honorary ceremony.

A PLAQUE commemorating “the unparalleled benevolence of the English nation to the poor of Ireland” has caused outrage in the Sinn Féin party in Nenagh, Co Tipperary (Irish Examiner, October 28).