Singer Anna von Hausswolff: ‘A right-wing party wanted to gain Catholic votes. They used me as a tool’
The crime writer renovating a derelict Tipperary schoolhouse: Rotting timbers, crumbling masonry but I felt calm
Learning to ski in Dublin: I’m sweating in borrowed gear with a dawning sense I can’t avoid mortification
Jonathan Coe: ‘I’ve plunged headfirst into it: putting things into people’s mouths that they never said’
