Oscar Wilde was the most famous — and notorious — of his family but they were already a wild bunch long before his scandalous downfall. Mary Leland reads between the lines of a chronicle of fortune and misfortune.

An upcoming TV version has taken liberties with Lady Chatterley’s Lover, not least toning down some of the language, writes Susan Griffin.

Anne Enright’s latest novel The Green Road is set on that great Irish battleground — the family. She spoke to Caroline O’Doherty about the institution and all its foibles — and trying to be an inspiring teacher.

This Tuesday was the birthday of Constance Markievicz. Her father was an Anglo-Irish landlord, who provided free food at Lissadell House during the famine.

CANADIAN Margaret Atwood is one of the most acclaimed and prolific authors of the past 30-plus years, a woman of towering intellect and imagination. 

The wave of protests by residents of Ireland’s direct provision system spread to a fifth accommodation centre yesterday.

Venue: Everyman, Cork

Michelle O’Donnell Keating is not a household name in Ireland, but perhaps she should be.

Michael, Jared and Matthew, we salute you.

Constance

Some of Hollywood’s most glittering triumphs have been snatched from the slavering jaws of defeat.

George Bernard Shaw once said that youth is wasted on the young.

One Hundred Names

In 2002, after her legendary book deal, she was written off as a one-hit wonder. But a decade later, Cecelia Ahern is one of the country’s most successful writers, says Sue Leonard

The Dog Stars

THE late editor of the Sunday Independent Aengus Fanning was remembered yesterday as a newspaperman who had showed courage in exposing the hidden evils of Irish society.

Even while defying modern filmmaking techniques with a monochromatic palette and soundscape of silence, 'The Artist' is as conventional as they come.

The Woman who shot Mussolini

A 19-year-old was charged with the murder of an elderly guesthouse owner in Co Down.

A FAMILY appealed directly to Cork’s city manager yesterday to remove a “mountain of rubbish” from the grounds of a vacant council house next door.

WE’RE great men and women on the Ould Sod for lionising our literary giants without knowing the first thing about them.

An auction at one of Ireland’s most historically well-connected stately homes is expected to reach €2m tonight – double experts’ predictions.

She is one of the best - and most beautiful - of Hollywood actresses … and you probably find it difficult to figure out what she looks like.