Emma Donoghue

The author’s bestselling novel of confinement has new resonance during coronavirus

Along with the chronic physical illnesses of diabetes and fibromyalgia, Emma Donoghue (26) has had postnatal depression and anorexia to contend with. But life is slowly getting better

Today FM host acknowledges jaded public mood, while Jennifer Zamparelli reveals a gritty side of Irish life

Raymond Deane’s Vagabones dramatises one of the few witch trials to have ever taken place in Ireland

Yuga Wang makes her Irish debut, and Vagabones gets its first Irish airing

As a teacher, I have always known how tough the exams are. Reform is overdue

The Dubliner on the exhausting success of Room, anti-Semitism and his ghostly The Little Stranger

The ‘significant’ financial burden will have implications beyond cancelled events

A remarkable California teen comes to a realisation about her predatory father

The ‘Room’ author on making a musical version of her all-conquering book for the stage

In the final part of our series on influential books by women writers, we focus on Irish authors

How does life change for a film-maker who now has that gold man on the shelf?

‘Strange Occurrences in a Small Irish Village’ shows the power of religious iconography

The Dublin author’s book is an intensification of the common experience of having a child, in all its claustrophobic terror and glory

Eight Irish writers’ monologues create a moving theatrical tapestry

‘It’s not a historical piece. This is theatre.’ Here’s how Signatories took shape

Room sweeps the board with seven awards while Brooklyn takes two

Tanya Sweeney: Why waste the opportunity to bask in the famed glamour of Oscars night with total abandon?

Wins for one of the Irish films vying for best picture at tonight’s Academy Awards

Saoirse Ronan, Lenny Abrahamson and Emma Donoghue talk academy fantasies

‘The Revenant’ or ‘Room’? Leonardo DiCaprio or Michael Fassbender? Brie Larson or Saoirse Ronan? It’s the most unpredictable best-picture race in decades

Lenny Abrahamson’s Room and John Crowley’s Brooklyn vie for the best picture Oscar this weekend. They are part of a grand tradition

Best film goes to The Revenant – tale of survival from 19th century US frontier

Gavin McCrea’s research into the elusive, illiterate Lizzie Burns is now a historical novel

The glamorous stuff that gives the nation a lift is a byproduct of a messy, dynamic creative ecosystem full of knowns and unknowns

Irish success at Academy Awards shows the value of both cultural planning and self-belief

Pundits underestimated films’ potential ahead of Academy Awards announcement

Sylvester Stallone takes best supporting actor for ‘Creed’ in Los Angeles ceremony

Donald Clarke previews Sunday night’s award ceremony in Los Angeles

There's a nod to visual art, the stage, and even a robot-themed 3D printing company in Gemma Tipton's selection of people to watch in the arts this year

Why does the London Film Critics’ Circle refer to Irish actors as British? It’s baffling

The Man Booker shortlist author on the joys of Portland, writing modern fairytales, his next project, and why he felt he had no choice but to bin a 300-page novel he had finished

Lenny Abrahamson’s adaptation wins prize that usually predicts Oscars success

Review: Radio 1’s new presenter voices his opinions to bracing effect. The rebooted ‘Media Show’ could learn from such candour

Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction

Having given up my legal career in Dublin to pursue a master’s in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, now I am faced with the realities of my new path

This week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut author

Irish authors tell us how and where they find inspiration for an idea strong enough to sustain a book, and how they go about turning that into an extended narrative

In Lenny Abrahamson’s latest film, Michael Fassbender plays the lead character from inside a huge papier-mache head. The Irish director gives us the lowdown on the notorious noggin, his ‘Celtic Tiger Trilogy’ and more