Art and music workshops and demos are just some of the hundreds of events lined up for September 18th

In the first of a four-part series on Ireland’s walled towns, we visit Wexford, where history is quite literally in people’s back gardens

Oliver Schurmann reinforces the need to plant for the future at the Carlow Garden Festival, which runs until Sunday

Carlow Garden Festival is pulling out all the stops to attract a more diverse crowd

A perusal of The Irish Times Annual Review of 1966 leaves me slack-jawed over an era where the patriarchy truly ruled Ireland

The playwright on his new production of The Brightening Air, developing ‘scar tissue’ from criticism, and the thing great actors have

Apparently a gathering for 100 is expected at Madison Square Garden tonight, and another for 1,000 people tomorrow afternoon

Elaine Byrne’s photograph of a young girl swimming was chosen from the annual exhibition at the RHA

This ‘tradwife’ novel by debut novelist Caro Claire Burke is jaw-droppingly good

The artist’s best-known work had a lasting impact. The cabinet of curiosities that is her studio offers an insight into the master behind it

A New Yorker article indicates the author of bestselling memoir Strangers had minimised her personal wealth

‘People might come in with a budget, but they often leave with something way above.’ To spend time behind the scenes at Weir & Sons jewellers is to understand a little of the meticulous skill these craftspeople possess

In her best-selling memoir the Irish author and journalist ‘excavated her own soul and, in so doing, helped us look more closely at ourselves’

Dede was on the path to becoming a professional footballer when an injury derailed his career. He retrained as a chef in Dublin, and has since been transforming a west Cork village into a renowned culinary destination

It’s no surprise that Virginia Evans has found huge success with The Correspondent, which is now up for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction