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Ireland’s second-smallest county: ‘There are not many of us who live on the street now’
Ireland’s county towns: Residents share how sport is replacing pub culture and historic buildings are taking on new lives
This county town is the home of Fab Vinnie, tortilla chips and novelist Laurence Sterne
A visit to Clonmel reveals several vacant premises but plenty of charm
Ireland’s county towns: ‘There were 300 people living on this street. Now it’s 17’
In the second in her series on county towns, Rosita Boland discovers there is a lot more to Sligo than its Yeats connection
How Substack is upending media: ‘It is seriously challenging the old-guard message that people won’t pay for writing’
Big-name writers Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Paul Krugman and Tina Brown have flocked to the platform
The ancient Irish town battling against decline: ‘It used to be the centre of things, but those days are gone now’
Downpatrick is the reputed burial place of three Irish saints
A Cork woman in the circus: ‘In transition year, I wrote to a circus dance company asking if I could do an internship’
Gracie Marshall quit school to train to be a performer. Now Sabotage, in which she stars, is on its way to Galway International Arts Festival
Was it just me who found the slogans on two men’s T-shirts so inappropriate?
I am fairly confident if I had asked them why, they would have said it was a joke
A day in the Bere Island school where teachers commute by ferry and classes take place on the beach
Children at Bere Island's two-room school go nature-spotting on the beach and mixed-age groups play in the yard at break
Eileen Walsh: Women actors ‘are like avocados. You’re nearly ready, nearly ready - then you’re ripe, then you’ve gone off’
The Cork actor, who has returned to live in Ireland after 30 years, on ageing, working with Cillian Murphy, and her upcoming role in a 24-hour play with 100 unknown men
What high-end tourists get up to in Ireland: ‘You always have to make things happen. We do a lot of helicopters’
From Taylor Swift to millionaire CEOs, luxury travel agency founder Siobhan Byrne caters to the desires of the rich and famous who want bespoke Irish holidays
Missing Kerry farmer Michael Gaine: ‘Mystery’ is the word that repeats like a mantra
In Kenmare people are ‘talking about nothing else’ since the 56-year-old’s unexplained disappearance last month
The New Yorker at 100: this eclectic magazine is a lucky bag of intellect
New Yorker comes with its fabulous cargo of reportage, fiction, memoir, graphic art, poetry and some eclectic pieces that defy categorisation
Sally Rooney: ‘I enjoy writing about men ... the dangerous charisma of the oppressor class’
Fans are drawn like moths to the author’s flame during her two appearances Cúirt festival
‘The Constitution will soon put women back in their place. Everything is fizzling away’: Sarah Jane Scaife on Youth’s the Season–?
Mary Manning wrote her first play in 1931, when she was 26. It’s astonishing how modern it can feel, says the director of the Abbey’s new production
‘We cook the bear in a kind of stew,’ said the waiter in Estonia’s capital of Tallinn. ‘It’s very good’
A trip to Tallinn offers insights into a surprising dish, historic KGB surveillance and current anger at Vladimir Putin
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