Don’t be fooled into thinking that Dublin are suddenly going to fall away now, writes Mike Quirke.

She was a woman of many names. Also known as ‘Mary O’Connor’, ‘Mary the Shop’, and ‘Mary the Pensioner’, it was the title of ‘Mary John B’ that charmed her the most.

Brenda Sexton opened her women’s shop on Saturday morning, as she has for 60 years. But that day it changed, sadly.

Now in his 80th year, Des Keogh will finish with touring once he completes his current show on George Bernard Shaw, writes Colette Sheridan

Hands — first nights are all about hands. Hands for shaking, sweating, hugging, backslapping, pint-holding, but mostly clapping.

MUSICIAN and psychotherapist Eamon Keane is a Renaissance man. 

The Abbey’s touring production of Sive underlines its timeless themes of greed and lust, says Colette Sheridan.

SINGER, songwriter and composer, Eamon Keane, is returning to Cork for his first concert in ten years at CIT School of Music this Friday, Dec 20.

As Australian rugby still smoulders, Lions' hero Jonathan Sexton stepped into the cloistered calm of Adare’s 13th century Holy Trinity Church to marry his schooldays sweetheart, Laura Priestley.

My dad, John B, was a battler all his life but yesterday he lost an eight year struggle against cancer.

Garry Hynes of Druid Theatre in Galway on why she still marvels at John B’s huge ambition

Margaret Dillon recalls the thrill of playing the title role in John B’s first play, Sive, while she was still a schoolgirl

A writer begins life as a poet, progresses to being a playwright and ends up as a novelist, John B Keane once revealed to me.

John B Keane’s pub in Listowel remains the haunt of poets, storytellers and musicians, writes Dónal Hickey

“I miss him every day and when I wake up in the morning I think we’re going to be having our breakfast together. His presence is still here. I can feel him around the place.” — Mary Keane

Gay Byrne, Niall Tóibín and Brenda Fricker recount lasting memories from their meetings with John B Keane

I COULD introduce the ‘kingdom’ of Kerry with a description of its incomparable physical attributes, from Cahirsiveen to Ballybunion, but a few well-taken photographs would eclipse my most passionate prosopography.

JOHN BRENDAN KEANE is ten years dead today.

I WAS introduced to John B Keane — at a very young age — by my father.

Despite coastguard warnings of “huge waves whipped up by high seas” this fishing trawler was determined not to be prevented from going in search of its haul.

THE producer of a new movie shot in west Cork has cast locals in the final cut and has asked local musicians to collaborate on the score, as a “thank-you” for their support.

THE spirit of John B Keane will be celebrated in Listowel tonight with the screening of his novel Durango as part of the Kerry Film Festival.

THE then German ambassador to Ireland, Christian Pauls, made the mistake of laughing at our folly when addressing a group of German businessmen in Clontarf Castle more than three years ago, almost exactly a year before the banking crisis in the US became world news.

ONE of John B Keane’s most popular plays, The Year of the Hiker, will be staged by Sliabh Luachra Drama Group on the coming weekends.

I HAVE no doubt John B Keane is putting the final touches to his latest drama on the Listowel affair in his great theatre in the sky. And why did the gardaí allow these approaches to a convicted man in custody ?

JIMMY Barry-Murphy’s late father, John Barry, or John B as he was affectionately known in his club St Finbarr’s, had a saying when describing heavy defeats suffered by his club: “They were too numerous for us.”

BIG Maggie Polpin is dead, but by Christ she won’t be forgotten.

A STATUE of legendary playwright John B Keane, in his hometown Listowel, has been removed temporarily after it became unsteady during Christmas.

RAIN didn’t dampen spirits on the second day of Listowel Writers’ Week yesterday, as people scurried from reading to reading, clutching an umbrella and with the inevitable book under the arm, got it signed by their favourite author.

NEIL JORDAN has won the E10,000 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize for his novel Shade.

I HAVE a question: will Raffles, the gentleman thief, outlast our Nobel Prize winning poet, Seamus Heaney?

Colm O'Connor looks at the enduring appeal of the last GAA championship final of the year. ON SUNDAY, sports followers of all persuasions will speed past a golfing wonder of the world to get a ringside seat on an hour of local squabbling in Ballybunion.

ALMOST a year after his death, John B Keane is still springing literary surprises — just in time to generate theatrical debate at Listowel Writers’ Week.