American author George Saunders has been handed this year's Man Booker Prize for his first full-length novel.

As a family they were Hollywood royalty, but Isabella Rossellini’s abiding memories of Ingrid Bergman are of a kind and caring mother, she tells Helen Barlow

Here's a few tips on what to watch tonight on TV.

The entertainment firm owned by one of Ireland’s most successful actresses, Saoirse Ronan, recorded profits of €111,677 in its first year in business.

Oliver Driver is a theatre director from New Zealand. He is the director of Live Live Cinema Little Shop of Horrors, where the performers lip-sync, play a new soundtrack and do all the foley effects live to the original Roger Corman film. It will be performed at Galway International Arts Festival on 21 & 22 July at 8pm and 23 July at 11pm in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway. This is a show for all the family to enjoy.

As a child, Carole wrote long diary entries and letters to anyone who would reply, and as a teenager she wrote short stories. Some were published, and others shortlisted in competitions. 

WHAT a conundrum. What a bother. What a pickle and a palaver. Frankly, we need to talk about Kazuo.

WHAT might be the best first page of any novel this year announces the arrival of Ian McEwan’s latest portrayal of the professional elites.

The Children Act

This is the Way

Flora

Stoner

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold was published 50 years ago and redefined a genre. Declan Burke on the genius of John le Carré.

Mortality

Sweet Tooth

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Virginia Kerr will perform the famous Requiem at the opening of the Cork International Choral Festival, writes Colette Sheridan

AN ACTOR breathes life into a character but a costume can transcend time and language to make it iconic.

CS WHYTE

CIARA has always written. But she started in earnest when her second child went to nursery school.

The Distant Hours

A Cautious Approach, by Stanley Middleton, Hutchinson (Random House); £18.99

The Empty Family

Ian McEwan

It has already been transformed into an Oscar-winning movie, and now Ian McEwan’s widely-acclaimed novel 'Atonement' is to get the opera treatment.

IN the face of economic crisis, we have seen what is achievable when countries unite in a common cause. But with the world at the brink of ecological disaster and millions of poor people already living on the frontline of climate change, it is essential that this ambition be heightened as world leaders meet at the UN climate negotiations in Poland.

A welcome release is The Cement Garden Special Edition (Arrow Films, €24.99), Andrew Birkin’s brilliant adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel about a family who cover up their mother’s death to save themselves from the orphanage.

'Atonement' led the way at the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards, scooping three of the most coveted prizes.

CO WICKLOW resident Daniel Day-Lewis took the best actor prize at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta’s) last night.

Daniel Day-Lewis took the best actor prize at the Baftas tonight but Britain’s leading ladies were left empty-handed as a little-known French actress stole the limelight.

Up for a ton of Oscars, 'Atonement' (Universal, €24.99) is a classic adaptation of Ian McEwan’s best-selling novel, a sweeping tragedy that takes us from 1930s Britain to second world war battle fields.

Period drama 'Atonement' has picked up another host of awards on its path to the Oscars.

CARLOW actress Saoirse Ronan’s dizzying rise in the film world continued yesterday when she was nominated for a BAFTA gong for her role in the acclaimed film Atonement.

British film 'Atonement' was named best film at a toned-down Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles today.

'Atonement' has picked up a slew of nominations today for this year's Golden Globes, as expected, including best actress for Keira Knightley.

TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to the 2007 Man Booker winner, Dubliner Anne Enright.

Tributes were paid in Ireland today to the 2007 Man Booker winner, Dubliner Anne Enright.

Irish author Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction tonight with her bleak family saga The Gathering.

Irish author Anne Enright is one of six hopefuls for the 39th Man Booker Prize which will be announced tonight.

CHICK-LIT novelist Cecelia Ahern’s latest book has sold more copies than all the six novels on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize.

Young Saoirse Ronan has been grabbing rave reviews for her performance in director Joe Wright’s adaptation of writer Ian McEwan’s WW2 novel Atonement, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy.

The Venice Film Festival reaches its climax today with the awarding of the Golden Lion for best picture.