RECENTLY issued as a paperback, having been first published in 2005 and short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Sebastian Barry’s First World War novel is brilliant in its evocation of the killing fields in Flanders and the tragedy of the protagonist. 

A winning black Jersey at last weekend’s Cork Summer Show reflected new trends in the dairy industry.

Booker prize nominee Sebastian Barry tells Caroline O’Doherty how grateful he is that the protagonist told her story and guided him as he wrote it down.

The work of an Irish author has been placed among eight of the world’s top novels in line for an international award.

MORE than 100,000 people will flock to Croke Park for the All-Ireland hurling semi-finals this weekend.