Brendan Behan

In a Word ... Complaint

A story about Brendan Behan’s lighthouse painting days is amusing enough to be true

Vortex wins best film at Dublin International Film Festival

Laura Samani wins best director for Small Body and Udo Kier takes best actor

Archive covers more than 100 years of the Irish language movement

Exchange of letters among items in new Conradh na Gaeilge archive at NUI Galway

In a Word... Ulysses

It is probably the most famous unread book in history

Fintan O’Toole: It’s the first birthday of the Brexit hole and they have to keep digging

Those who sold it are slithering away from responsibility for its consequences. Those to whom it was sold are left to bear them

Fintan O’Toole: Humans are just apes who burn stuff. Now we must put out the fire

Cop26 delegates have the power to create a turning point in the evolution of our species

Musical Mystery Tour - Landfried (contd), and the origins of The Ould Triangle

An Irishman’s Diary

Jail Journeyman – On Behan’s lighthouse, the glory of French supermarkets, and confidence-building Christian names

An Irishman’s Diary

Ring Cycle – Frank McNally on Brendan Behan and the Fáinne wearers

An Irishman’s Diary

Voice of dissent a remote echo after death of heroic Greek artist

Greece Letter: Mikis Theodorakis considerably more than a citizen who did ‘his duty’

Donald Clarke: Thanksgiving? Thanks but no thanks

Can we please not give the public another opportunity to ape American traditions?

On its 90th anniversary remembering the Irish Press

An Irishman’s Diary

Poetic Parishes – Frank McNally on a new book about Baggotonia and the new Kavanagh museum in Inniskeen

An Irishman’s Diary

Brigid O’Dea: ‘These days, to live really is so startling’

After 17 months of gestation, we are leaving the wombs of our homes and learning once more the ways of this world

Marching to a Drumlin Beat – Frank McNally on Brendan Behan’s ‘mad republican’ from Monaghan

An Irishman’s Diary

Ciarán Murphy: Kerry-Dublin storyline can live without an ending . . . for now

It may not be a satisfactory ending but satisfactory endings are actually pretty rare

London’s restaurants struggle for staff after exodus of EU citizens

London Letter: Many who went home to sit out the pandemic have stayed away

Hedge Schooling – Frank McNally on being given haws for thought

An Irishman’s Diary

The Mary Wallopers: ‘Folk was never supposed to be safe’

The Dundalk ballad band are tapping into the political power of folk, punk and hip-hop

Fintan O’Toole: Why we should welcome the new tribe of Anglo-Irish people

Up to half a million British people are becoming Irish citizens. They help us to recognise our own past

Future Imperfect – Frank McNally on Patrick Kavanagh’s 1950s vision of the year 2021

An Irishman’s Diary

Put a head on that: Croke Park headers and ageing stout

An Irishman’s Diary: On heading the ball in GAA and vintage Brendan Behan

Countermeasures – John Horgan on ways around a dry St Patrick’s Day

An Irishman’s Diary

Ahead of his time – Frank McNally on the day Eamonn Breslin shocked Croke Park

An Irishman’s Diary

On the Ball, Off the Wall – Frank McNally on the mysterious origins of a Dublin phrase

An Irishman’s Diary

In the swim – An Irishman’s Diary on that time I nearly killed Brendan Behan

Jack B Yeats’ Romeo and Juliet to headline at de Veres’ upcoming sale

Auction will be first Irish sale to offer a body of work by bohemian artist Reginald Gray

Sotheby’s sale to feature further items from Michael Smurfit collection

Fine Art & Antiques auction results

No-Water Quarter – Frank McNally on a part of Dublin whose placenames were overtaken by history

An Irishman’s Diary

A Brush with Fame – Frank McNally on William Rowan Hamilton, lockdown exercise, and alliterative bridges of the Royal Canal

An Irishman’s Diary

Catherine Freeman obituary: TV producer who shook up BBC’s ‘male club’

Cultured and opinionated producer was a ‘path breaker’ for women in TV

Dave Hannigan: 20 years of highs and lows in the US with sport at the centre

As my eldest son left home I reflected on the last two decades and the experiences of life

Fintan O’Toole: Newstalk’s Irish Times ban is a classic case of ‘cancel culture’

Cancel culture isn’t new, just a new term for an old concept of cynical hypocrisy

‘I am deeply interested in Ireland’s complex past’

‘I have a ritual of making tea, lighting a candle and then I am gone into my fictional world’

A Tale of Two Cities – Frank McNally on Brendan Behan, the IRA’s 1939 campaign, and the other Fontenoy Street

I’ve been embracing social distancing with great enthusiasm since 1998

Donald Clarke: Nobody dares hug you now. The chances of a fraternal kiss are slimmer still. It’s great

TV guide: 33 of the best shows to watch this week

Eye candy Belgravia debuts, plus ideas for changing Ireland, Miss World ’70’s controversies, famous Irish mothers, and the return of big guns Westworld and Monty Don

Come Out Ye Drunken Dads – Frank McNally on the curious reinvention of a spoof rebel song

Seamus Mallon remembered: A man with ‘sharpest political antennae’

He would remind you from time to time that it was as a defender he played for Armagh

On the centenary of Prohibition, is creative intoxication still a thing?

Writers have often used drink or drugs to ‘see beyond’ reality. Or was it all an illusion?

Have yourself a very vintage Christmas: antique gifts for all

The most sustainable choice of all could also be a good investment

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