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Patrick Freyne: What really matters is how sickeningly rich one is
In Julian Fellowes’s world, big houses with servants constituted a perfect social order
Should Joyce be ‘cancelled’ for misogyny; Conrad for racism?
Do ideas embraced by some writers in the past mean we should stop reading them?
Neil Jordan: ‘I couldn’t make The Crying Game today’
The director on his new historical fiction novel, Harvey Weinstein and ageism in film
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Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in October
Highlights include Rebecca, Emily in Paris, The Trial of the Chicago 7, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit is like having to listen to someone else’s dreams
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Richard Weber: An acclaimed Irish poet who suddenly went silent
Obituary: The Dublin man was predicted to be ‘one of the significant poets of his generation’
The Turning: This film is a total waste of time. Don’t even read the review
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‘I can’t do thrillers or spy novels or genre fiction. I just get bored'
The author Colm Tóibín discusses female Irish novelists, families, and when he wishes he had a TV
‘I was refused entry to perfumery school because I was a woman’
Hermès perfumer Christine Nagel on breaking into her industry to pursue her passion
‘Ireland is the country for ruins’: Why I seek out our abandoned homes
Thank the damp climate for our many ruined castles, cottages, ballrooms and barns
Richard E Grant: ‘Every day I thank God for Withnail and I’
Richard E Grant is playing another starry-eyed drunk and this time he's Oscar nominated
Kate Bush: The Heathcliff, Peter Pan and Othello connections
From Shakespeare to Emily Bronte, literature has featured strongly across her 10 albums
The Little Stranger: Ghosts in the big house are not scary part
Review: Lenny Abrahamson’s impressively clammy follow-up to the all-conquering 'Room'
People in the Room by Norah Lange: Macabre Argentinean classic
English translation of a masterful, deeply mysterious novel about female isolation
The Secret of Marrowbone: it’s familiar, but not always eerily familiar
Review: It’s a shame Sergio G Sánchez didn’t stretch himself more in his directorial debut
Philip Roth's final interview: 'Life can stop on a dime'
The great American writer on Trump, the #MeToo movement and living the retirement life
Homeless children growing up in poverty just outside Disneyland
The Florida Project is Sean Baker's acclaimed new film, a comedy about children living in budget motels in the shadow of Disney World
John Banville: Novels were never the same after Henry James
James invented the ‘psychological novel’ in The Portrait of a Lady. How could I not follow the fortunes of its heroine?
Britten’s opera stumbles from the small screen to the live stage
‘Owen Wingrave’ fails to come to theatrical life
Boni de Castellane sale recalls excesses of ‘Belle Époque’
The French count burned through $10 million of his American heiress wife’s fortune. Their treasures are for sale for the first time in over a century
Coping: Ancient philosophers tips on how to keep your resolutions
Bin the fancy self-help books you got for Christmas and heed the wisdom of three great thinkers
The Abode of Fancy by Sam Coll review: a hugely impressive linguistic feat
Fantasy and reality fuse in an ambitious and linguistically powerful Irish debut
Colm Tóibín, novice screenwriter
The Irish writer has teamed up with Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss and Volker Schlöndorff to make his first film, about ‘rewriting reality’
Kate Beckinsale: Phone taps and Austen super powers
Kate Beckinsale might be a go-to girl for Jane Austen adaptations, in between badass superhero roles. But her family life growing up had more to do with miners’ marches, Trotskyism and having their phone tapped
Shakespeare and me: Irish writers on the Bard's best bits
Some admirers celebrate the playwright’s work on the 400th anniversary of his death
Colm Tóibín: enjoying life on the Brooklyn road
As the film of ‘Brooklyn’ gets good reviews, Tóibín’s status at home and abroad rises yet another notch
Unthinkable: Should morality be treated as an experimental science?
Moral truths can’t be spoon-fed to people by priests or sages, says Sarin Marchetti, invoking the wisdom of William James
Denis Donoghue: Why WB Yeats matters
As even the hostile critic FR Leavis conceded, in Yeats’s poetry ‘there is no element of a man’s experience in the twentieth century that, of its nature, it excludes’
Donald Clarke: Do threats made on Twitter count as free speech?
Ashley Judd says she will press charges over threats made in the US, but imprisoning people for saying nasty things is a tricky business
‘Culture can provide home away from home for Irish in London’
First in new discussion series hosted by an Irish journalist in London will feature public interview with historian Roy Foster
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